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Summary: Fantastic! Laugh out loud funny.
Review: Hilarious, intelligent comedy that you can watch over and over. Six great characters make this a comedy classic with these six episodes of Season 1. I was a bit skeptical before watching the show for the first time on our local PBS station, but rushed to send in my annual pledge renewal afterwards. NBC has enlisted the aid of the show's creators to create a version for American TV; if it can be half as good as the original, it'll be a huge success. Hopefully the DVD for Season 2 will be coming out soon. The action centers around six characters, 3 guys and 3 girls: Richard Coyle's Jeff character, who manages to steal much of the show with unforgettable dialogue; Jeff's "porn buddy" nice-guy Steve; the man's man Patrick; Sarah Alexander's Susan, who is an uninhibited hottie; her best-friend Sally; and the nearly insane Jane. A must-have addition to anyone's DVD comedy collection.
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Summary: One of the few tv shows I like
Review: Not having anything to do I turned on the television, everything looked horrible so I did something I do maybe once in a year, I turned on to see what was on the educational station. The station said that a BBC comedy was coming up. I decided to give it a try not expecting much, but I was surprised. Coupling is hilarious. It's like what Friends should be. This show has some terrific writers. It's cruder yes but unlike Friends you'll get more than two laughs.
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Summary: Dangerously Addictive
Review: Don't buy this DVD unless you are prepared to buy the entire series. You will fall in love with the characters and will need to know how their story lines continue to develop. And don't even think about lending your DVDs to a friend. It will be impossible to get you friend to give them back. This stuff is laugh out loud funny...and mini-marathons watching the DVDs make for great girls nights in. Enjoy!!!!!!!
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Summary: Very well done, Easily surpasses mundane US humour
Review: "Copling" is a very smart and funny show from England. It is indeed like lame US "Friends" only with this show you can actually laugh at the writing. On DVD First Season (the only season we have watched so far), there are some very very funny stories and some creative writing. I totally recommend this show to anyone who hates the dismal quality of US comedy shows. Sometimes it is on PBS here but only once a week at 11pm, way too adult for our censorship system, afterall why can't the words for body parts be used here but over in Britian it is OK? I guess they are more mature about sexuality there than here where connotations are all we can look forward to.
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Summary: Awesome Brit-com, great DVD!
Review: I got into the show Coupling a couple of years ago when I visited my boyfriend in his native land (Britain) and was hooked immediately. From thereon in I didn't miss an episode of the show on BBC America. The only problem was that I hadn't been able to catch the first season reruns. Coupling -- The Complete First Season is a clear indication as to why I became a big fan of this hilarious and clever Brit-com. The show is about six thirty-something single Londoners and their relationship plights. Well, there's a lot more to it than that. The clever one-liners, the hilarious situations and the smart and witty quips among the six friends make this show a comic marble. The three girls -- Susan (the sexy one), Sally (the anal retentive one) and Jane (the eccentric, manipulative one) -- are great and sort of remind me of Rachel, Monica and Phoebe (sorry, but I am sure that most of you saw that one coming). And the guys -- Steve (the more romantic one), Patrick (the commitmentphobic one) and Jeff (the hilarious, somewhat perverted one) -- take it one step further in comedy and bonding than the guys on Friends. Jeff is my favorite character. I love his quirky lines and immature behavior. My favorite episodes are "Flushed," "Size Matters," "Sex, Death and Nudity," and "The Girl with Two Breasts." (The latter episode is the funniest one.) I got to see how Steve broke up with Jane and how he met Susan. And in that breakup and get-together, all six of them meet each other and become friends. I was not disappointed. The execution was great, especially during the first scenes of the episode "Flushed." In the hopes of saving both time and word space, I won't give a complete episode guide. I see that some reviewers have already done it. I just wanted to share my enthusiasm and utter satisfaction with the show's first season. Also, the DVD is quite good. It is far user-friendlier than the Sex and the City DVD in that each episode has a menu with scene choices -- something that SATC DVDs don't have for some reason. Anyway, if you're in the bargain for a clever and modern British comedy then I suggest you give the first season of Coupling a whirl.
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Summary: Hey! The British are more preoccupied about sex than we are!
Review: Yeah, "Coupling" is "Friends" set in England, but then "St. Elsewhere" was "Hill Street Blues" in a hospital and that worked out okay. Besides, with all the attempts to duplicate the success of "Friends" on this side of the Pond it is nice to see that somebody pulled it off. So just take it for granted that you will watch the first couple of episodes from the first series (what we in the Colonies would call a season) you will be figuring out which character on "Coupling" matches up with which character on "Friends." But that is pretty obvious:
Steve Taylor (Jack Davenport) is Ross, without the Ph.D. in paleontology, who has just started dating Susan Walker (Sarah Alexander), who certainly is more confident about living in the real world than Rachel. Jane Christie (Gina Bellman) is decidedly quirky like Phoebe, but without the loveable cuteness, and Sally Harper (Kate Isitt) is psychotic about her appearance the way Monica is about cleanliness. Jeff Murdock (Richard Coyle) thinks about sex as much as Joey without any of the success with women, which makes it odd that Patrick Maitland (Ben Miles) ends up being the Chandler figure since he is apparently a sex god (or sex "donkey"). When you get to the point knowing that Patrick is Susan's "ex" and it becomes impossible to translate that into Chandler being Rachel's "ex," then you are capable of watching this situation comedy on its own terms.
Now, the biggest difference between "Coupling" and "Friends" is the preoccupation with sex. "Coupling" only had six episodes in its first series and I was wondering if you took the first season of "Friends" and selectively cut it down to only six episodes would it be as much about sex? I have to say that the answer is probably not, even if you culled the choice moments from the first two or three season of 'Friends." Even when a subplot is about a job interview or a funeral, it still ends up about being sex. To be honest, "Sex in the City" is not as much about sex as "Coupling," which, you have to admit, has a more specific title in that regard.
The six episodes from the first series are as follows: "Flushed" has Steve trying to break up with Jane, once again, and having problems because not only does Jane refuse to hear what he is saying, she reveals another side of herself that catches Steve's attention. Then there is one of the most unusual circumstances for arranging for a date you have ever seen as Steve and Susan hook up. "Size Matters" has Sally seeing Patrick in a new way, or, to be more accurate, hoping to see Patrick in a new way. "Sex, Death and Nudity" has the gang showing up en masse at the funeral of Jane's aunt, although exactly who is with whom and what their relationship is for public consumption is not clear. Bonus: The boys do their "Reservoir Dogs" bit. "Inferno" is about the elephant in the living room at Steve and Susan's dinner party, namely the porn tape that Susan discovered in Steve's magazine. Fortunately, Jane has brought her ex-therapist, although everybody assumes the newcomer is gay. That is okay because she thinks Patrick is gay (because of his new hair style). "The Girl with Two Breasts" has Jeff successfully having a conversation with a beautiful woman who still likes him. That is probably because she is from Israel and only speaks Hebrew. The comic highlight of the season is when Jeff has a second conversation with her; we hear it first from his perspective and then again from her perspective. The first series comes to an end with "The Cupboard of Patrick's Love," where it seems one of his collection of videotapes of his bedroom activities has the name "Susan" on it. You do not need to be told this is not a good thing as far as Steve or Susan are concerned (although Jeff and Sally like the idea of it).
Actually, the first series almost ended on a rather sweet note, but then they went for the gag, which is the whole object of "Coupling." The show only tosses in one tag scene at the end of the credits, for "Inferno," but it is a perfect capper to the episode and the issue of "converting" someone. I am not surprised that the American version of "Coupling" failed because when the British talk about sex it tends to be funny, while when Americans talk about sex it tends to come across as smutty. Talk about two people separated by a common language. Anyhow, if you can get past the strong similarity with "Friends" and stop thinking of the show as a rip-off, you should be able to enjoy this raunchy and ribald little show.
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Summary: It doesn't get any better
Review: Yes, the topic is sex, but frankly, if you don't bust a gut watching this, you're probably dead. I dislike most British comedy, in fact, the only other one I like is Fawlty Towers. But this is just too funny, and I've managed to convert most of my coworkers into watching it too. You won't go wrong.
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