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Summary: Funniest show EVER
Review: I got hooked on this show watching BBC America in it's first season and it quickly became my favorite show of all time. Unfortunately, the American copy didn't work at all, but this DVD is a must have in any comedy enthusiast's collection. The comparison to a cross between 'Friends' and 'Sex and the City' doesn't do it justice. This series is fresh, witty and sometimes a little raunchy, but I've never laughed so hard! The writing and cast are superb and I can't wait for Series 3 on DVD!
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Summary: The Best Season
Review: I loved this season was better than the first i liked the man with two legs that is a funny episode and Jane's truth snake and My Dinner in Hell those were funny oh and when Jeff is turning 30 i can't wait till season 3 comes out in DVD. But the extras are ok comes with interviews and cast bios and commentary tracks.
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Summary: It's finally here!
Review: I picked this up the day it was released. Yes, you can watch "Coupling" on BBC America, but these DVD's are worth it, because they still edit some content for time. With Season 2, you get the following 9 episodes:THE MAN WITH TWO LEGS: Jeff finally works up the nerve to approach a girl on the tube whose leg he's been gawking at each day. Will he blow it with another one of his bumbling lines? MY DINNER IN HELL: Steve bumps into a television presenter he's always fantasized about, and Jane has a fool-proof hairbrained scheme that she swears will help she and Sally meet her. HER BEST FRIENDS BOTTOM: Steve makes a surprise visit at Susan's apartment, thinking it is she in the shower. It's Sally, and the entire episode revolves around that fact that Steve saw her bottom. THE MELTY MAN COMETH: Will Patrick and Sally finally come together? If Patrick doesn't stop "failing" then perhaps they can! JANE AND THE TRUTH SNAKE: In possibly one of the funniest episodes ever, Jane loses her job as traffic reporter. Never fear! She has a career plan up her sleeve that involves children's entertainment and a sock puppet. That's all I'll say. GOTCHA: One year after their first date, a wedding invite is sent to Steven and Susan. Steve, of course, panics into thinking Susan will now pe expecting a proposal herself. DRESSED: The meaning of Jane's invite to a dinner date is misunderstood, and she shows up naked under her coat. When she arrives to a flat full of guests, she has to do some quick thinking (rather a lot for Jane, really!). NAKED: Jeff's 30th birthday is coming, and his workmates have planned a surprise celebration for him. Again, invites are misunderstood and Jeff ends up stripping down naked in front of his workmates...and his parents! THE END OF THE LINE: Steve and Susan both assume aliases to swap phone numbers with other people in a bar, but the hilarity ensues when they realize it's with each other! Extras include more interviews with the cast and executive producer. What they really need is some outtakes, because I have a feeling they'd be hilarious! Worth every penny.
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Summary: It's finally here!
Review: I picked this up the day it was released. Yes, you can watch "Coupling" on BBC America, but these DVD's are worth it, because they still edit some content for time. With Season 2, you get the following 9 episodes: THE MAN WITH TWO LEGS: Jeff finally works up the nerve to approach a girl on the tube whose leg he's been gawking at each day. Will he blow it with another one of his bumbling lines? MY DINNER IN HELL: Steve bumps into a television presenter he's always fantasized about, and Jane has a fool-proof hairbrained scheme that she swears will help she and Sally meet her. HER BEST FRIENDS BOTTOM: Steve makes a surprise visit at Susan's apartment, thinking it is she in the shower. It's Sally, and the entire episode revolves around that fact that Steve saw her bottom. THE MELTY MAN COMETH: Will Patrick and Sally finally come together? If Patrick doesn't stop "failing" then perhaps they can! JANE AND THE TRUTH SNAKE: In possibly one of the funniest episodes ever, Jane loses her job as traffic reporter. Never fear! She has a career plan up her sleeve that involves children's entertainment and a sock puppet. That's all I'll say. GOTCHA: One year after their first date, a wedding invite is sent to Steven and Susan. Steve, of course, panics into thinking Susan will now pe expecting a proposal herself. DRESSED: The meaning of Jane's invite to a dinner date is misunderstood, and she shows up naked under her coat. When she arrives to a flat full of guests, she has to do some quick thinking (rather a lot for Jane, really!). NAKED: Jeff's 30th birthday is coming, and his workmates have planned a surprise celebration for him. Again, invites are misunderstood and Jeff ends up stripping down naked in front of his workmates...and his parents! THE END OF THE LINE: Steve and Susan both assume aliases to swap phone numbers with other people in a bar, but the hilarity ensues when they realize it's with each other! Extras include more interviews with the cast and executive producer. What they really need is some outtakes, because I have a feeling they'd be hilarious! Worth every penny.
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Summary: Turn off your American network and watch this instead...
Review: I think alot of Americans are turning to Britian for comedy these days. Between the advent of "reality tv"(If you'd like to call that load of bollocks reality) and censorship at an all time high, England's hysterical BBC has become a haven for SMART and INTELLIGENT Americans in search of witty and yet sometimes raunchy humor. Coupling has become my all-new favourite since ABFAB. So well written and performed by all concerned. Brilliant
(Jeff's most commonly used word)jokes and the most unreal sex farces you'll ever see!! All 3 seasons are so very worthy indeed!
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Summary: The laughs get louder with Season 2
Review: I totally agree with viewers panning the US version. How about casting 4 unfunny actors to re-enacte classic Seinfeld episodes? Waste of time. Stick with the original. This is one of the funiest shows ever, and never strays away from any subject matter. It really is one of the most risque shows around, which the US version, while claiming to be a hotter friends, doesn't even come close to capturing. Every show surprises me with how far the writers can and will go in the name of authenticity and humor. You just can't get any better than the original. And the season 2 DVD has more special features, and 3 more episodes. Perhaps season 3 will be around the corner.
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Summary: A bit more scattershot, a bit less Jeffisms, Still very good
Review: I'll spare you the "this is so much better than what NBC did tripe." The stars above should tell you that. The second season of Coupling tries to break the mold of the first season, by throwing Steve and Susan into situations of greater gravity, and showing the strength of their affection, by letting Jeff step out of his mad scientist role of Season 1 and interact more with women (and even one day successfully!), and by beginning the slow orbit of Patrick and Sally that is culiminated beautifully (and hilariously) in Series 3. Jane careens about as before, though. Ultimately, this makes the series less funny, if more meaningful. I truly enjoyed getting to hear Jeff's theory du jour, something that is thinned out here. While Jeff remains hilariously neurotic, he was the main comic engine on the show, and I feel slightly deprived in this change. Additionally, the pain Sally and Patrick begin to go through resulting from several abortive attempts at a relationship, also takes away from the pure comedy, but does add emotional weight, which the series bears well. This is especially made by Kate Isitt's blossoming portrayal of Sally, previously a one-note neurotic, now more fascinating emotional force. Steven Moffat remains a master at writing, especially in writing dialogue that is taken to mean very different things by the conversing characters, and at creating foot-, ankle-, and leg-swallowing monologues. This keeps the shows highly enjoyable, even at their most deliriously improbable moments. Ultimately this is a fine comedic presentation, though lacking the sparkle of Series 1, or the emotional complexity and burning hilarity of Series 3. The DVD itself is a good transfer, very clean images, good sound (let's face it, Dolby 5.1 won't add much, anyway). The menus are more of the same from Series 1, and the special features are improved in quanitity over the first, but the commentary is lackluster.
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Summary: The second series is funnier (and longer) than the first
Review: If by "funny" you mean that you laugh out loud even though there is nobody at home and that you find somebody to call me immediately so that you can share with them some bit that strikes you as hysterical (but that they will not understand because they have never seen the show), then "Coupling: The Complete Second Season" is the funniest thing I have seen in several months. The biggest complaint is that the first episode of the second series, "The Man With Two Legs," is the funniest of the nine wacky looks at sex in England. However, I would not claim that it was all downhill from there because the starting point would be more along the lines of a mountain.
I am way past the idea that a series of "Coupling" is like a season of "Friends" boiled down to all of the plotlines dealing with sex. But that is going to be an obvious frame of reference for colonial viewers. The main couple in the "Coupling" sextet is Steve Taylor (Jack Davenport) and Susan Walker (Sarah Alexander), who are now living together. They are the main couple not only because they are based on creator Steven Moffat and his wife Sue, but because they are the only couple on "Coupling." While the question of whether Steve will pop the question to Susan is a recurring concern in these episodes, everybody else is fair game. Besides, clearly the entire point of the existence of Jeff Murdock (Richard Coyle) is to find new ways to avoid having women have sex with him while Patrick Maitland (Ben Miles) fails just as often as Jeff succeeds (see "The Melty Man Cometh" and "The End of the Line" respectively). In the second series Sally Harper (Kate Isitt) is not as psychotic about her appearance (and I like the shorter hair), while Jane Christie (Gina Bellman) almost had me convinced that she had joined the others on planet Earth until she lost her job in "Jane and the Truth Snake."
It is nice that there were three additional episodes for series two and I want to watch series three as soon as I can get my hands on it and it is good to know that series four is on its way, but I think that the limited number of episodes (less than half what you get on "Friends" or most American situation comedies), works in favor of "Coupling." This is not just because you only have to come up with nine scripts instead of twenty or more, but also because you can only wring so much out of a sexual farce without becoming redundant and repetitive. Give everybody three episodes where they get one of the two major plotlines and that takes care of the entire series. How hard is it to come up with three great ideas for each character? It is when you get into double figures that you get into trouble.
I understand that many of you will be dissuaded from giving "Coupling" a try because you saw the American version, which basically took the original scripts, made a few changes, and set them in the U.S. This was a major mistake, because the fact that these characters are British matters, which means the humor matters being British matters as well. I have given up on American situation comedies mainly because I got sick and tired of finding stupid people funny. But Jeff takes it to a whole new level and the sense of anticipation as he tries desperately to talk himself out of saying something stupid, knowing that this is a battle he will never win, is delicious. Okay, I also find Susan's eyes adorable, so there is an aesthetic dimension as well. The bottom line is that if you are checking out series two then you have already seen series one, in which case you do not need to be convinced that this show is funny, so I am preaching to the choir.
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Summary: Even Better than Season One
Review: If you liked season one of Coupling, you will love season two. The situations are even more hilarious, the neuroses of the characters are more fully explored, and the viewer will laugh even harder. We get new "Jeff-isms," find out what is in Patrick's cupboard (closet to us Yankees), and watch Susan and Steve's relationship reach new depths of passion and absurdity. There are two discs with a lot more episodes than season one, and the special features are vastly improved over season one. Can't wait for season three!
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Summary: Even Better than Season One
Review: If you liked season one of Coupling, you will love season two. The situations are even more hilarious, the neuroses of the characters are more fully explored, and the viewer will laugh even harder. We get new "Jeff-isms," find out what is in Patrick's cupboard (closet to us Yankees), and watch Susan and Steve's relationship reach new depths of passion and absurdity. There are two discs with a lot more episodes than season one, and the special features are vastly improved over season one. Can't wait for season three!
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