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Sorry but Sopranos is mid and peep show is just really really fucking good. Evergreen content it never falls out of relevance
Im gonna disagree just based in the fact that it's British and mist British shows, especially highly rated ones are crap, especially if theyre comedies. Can't stand Red Dwarf, never liked either Office even 20 years ago, Shaun of the Dead is boring af and Hitchhiker'a Guide to the Galaxy is just waaaaay too proud of itself for being clever. Good British shows are as follows: Monty Python, The Young Ones, Look Around You and a fourth thing
this one has a lot of the cringe comedy of the office but it's not just cringe and a bit less meanspirited
Yeah, doesnt sound up my alley. It's weird cause I live in understated deadpan comedy irl but dont enjoy it when it's s scripted
the best bits have been clipped onto youtube and memed for ages, you're not missing much not seeing the whole thing tbh
It's not comedy I enjoy either, it's from the era of discomfort cringe awkward laughter, like someone deliberately butchering a joke in polite company. It's all playing on the sensibilities of downwardly mobile british middle class and watching a clown car crash in slow motion. I can't watch The Extras, Peep Show makes my skin crawl (but I can appreciate why people like it, it's well made), the Office hurt to watch (gervais is a genuinely detestable human) Usa analogues are like Curb Your Enthusiasm, idk if yall in Canada have any home grown analogues. I'm glad that era of comedy is over.
I like Curb.
Curb has a good balance I think where Larry is the major lightning rod and the other characters can be a contrast. Peep show both of the protags are unlikeable and the supporting cast are, as far as I can tell, just playing it straight. There's no release to the awkward tension
Curb was improvised which probably helped. There's an outline for an episode and what needs to come up in the scene but the dialogue is otherwise improvised. So it was people genuinely reacting to Larry somewhat.