Peep Show Series 9, Episode 6 - Are We Going To Be Alright? - British Comedy Guide (original) (raw)

The El Dude Brothers are bowing out on a high - a strange, complicated and definitely slightly illegal - high.

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Jeremy is turning 40. And it's hitting him hard. As is the pace of his blossoming romance - three-day drug binges aren't as easy as they were in his 20s. He's taking extreme measures in order to keep up.

Mark is determined to make Jez realise his age. With his job and his love life hanging in the balance, Mark makes an audacious attempt to win the woman of his dreams. Jeremy and Super Hans try to lend a hand, and end up adding to his problems...

Broadcast details

Date

Wednesday 16th December 2015

Time

10pm

Channel

Channel 4

Length

30 minutes

Cast & crew

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Videos

You've Been Marked

Is Mark about to get a corporate battering?

Featuring: David Mitchell (Mark Corrigan), Paterson Joseph (Alan Johnson), Neil Fitzmaurice (Jeff Heaney), Tim Key (Jerry) & Kitty Martin (Baker).

Numbers Game

Jeremy is nervous about becoming 40.

Featuring: Robert Webb (Jeremy Usbourne) & David Mitchell (Mark Corrigan).

Big 40

Jeremy is 40... Mark is sorting him out a card.

Featuring: David Mitchell (Mark Corrigan) & Conor MacNeill (Print Shop Worker).

Press

The final instalment of Peep Show was, like all the other episodes of Peep Show leading up to this point, brilliant. It was made more brilliant by the continued underplaying of its own brilliance, as if everyone involved knows they're doing something hilarious but it would be a bit un-British to crow about it.

In this episode, Jez was struggling to keep pace with his drug-guzzling younger boyfriend and facing the prospect of his 40th birthday with some apprehension: "40 is basically 50 and 50 is dead". Mark, meanwhile, declared his love for April, but obviously it wasn't quite as straightforward as that, and by the end the El Dude brothers were alone again, sitting in their flat watching a nature documentary about the reintroduction of wolves into the wild. "What next?" muses Mark. "Bring back smallpox? We all had fun with the smallpox, didn't we? Is it time smallpox had a reboot?"

Farewell, then, Peep Show. I'll miss you.

Elizabeth Day, The Observer, 20th December 2015

Review: Peep Show final episode

I think 40 is proably a good cut-off point but I'm still sorry to see them go.

Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 17th December 2015

A date mole-mapping. Super Hans's stag night. Jeremy's life-coaching love triangle. Instead of an elegiac vibe, the final series of Peep Show has kept things extraordinarily lively, while allowing its characters subtly to develop in something like a believable way. Jeremy is wrestling with the challenge of getting his act together and, at 39, beginning adulthood. Mark is pursuing love and history in one person. As Jeremy's 40th approaches, Mark faces down the latest in a series of work crises and makes a last-ditch attempt to win back April.

John Robinson, The Guardian, 16th December 2015

I can't quite believe that this is the last episode of Peep Show. Which sitcom can we turn to when we're feeling like ruined, depressed misfits against whom all the world is arranged? We'll just have to watch it all again and jot down notes on how to cope with life, because it has taught us several lessons such as: keep your boiler at the right temperature; never go along with any plan devised by Super Hans; don't opt for a career in credit control and never be ashamed to admit you prefer Radio 4 to a night of clubbing and getting high.

In this last episode, Jeremy is forced to admit that he's getting older. His boyfriend wants to party, take drugs and stay awake for three days and Jeremy is trying to keep up with him but really just wants to close the bedroom door and sleep for a fortnight. He's afraid to admit he's getting older and slowing down and so pretends his upcoming 40th birthday is really just his 39th. And as Mark keeps trying to win

April's heart, Super Hans proposes a plan and Mark is desperate enough to go along with it.

Julie McDowall, The National (Scotland), 16th December 2015

Peep Show ended in the right way

Peep Show is certainly one of the greatest sitcoms made in recent decades. It is the show that we comedy connoisseurs want to take to all those people who watch Mrs. Brown's Boys, broadcast in front of them, and tell them that this is the show they should have been watching. I'll miss it... *MIMES PULLING CORD* Ehhhhhhh!! Ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!

Ian Wolf, On The Box, 16th December 2015

Peep Show: sitcom for a rootless generation

When Peep Show first arrived on our screens in 2003, it put off some who thought it too 'zeitgeisty' - too Channel 4. First developed as a kind of live-action Beavis and Butt-Head, where two graduates would trade sarky observations about TV shows, its inner monologues and POV perspective struck many as a gimmick cooked up by TV execs. But, as Father Ted co-creator Graham Linehan later said, he hated Peep Show 'right up until the moment I actually watched it'.

Tom Slater, Spiked, 16th December 2015

The final Peep Show and the art of saying goodbye

After 54 episodes over nine series, the El Dude brothers have reached the end of the line. Where Sex and the City and The Sopranos rounded off in style and other series crash-landed, will tonight's finale do the show justice?

Mark Lawson, The Guardian, 16th December 2015

Peep Show: series 9, episode 6 review

There have been laughs, there have been tears, there have been snakes, men with ven, three weddings, two funerals, a baby, and, of course, a dead dog in a bin. The world of British comedy will be that much the poorer without them.

Joshua Worth, On The Box, 16th December 2015

Radio Times review

So, after nine series, this is the last-ever Peep Show. Creators Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong make every scene and every word count in a final, hilarious dose of era-ending, squirm-inducing mayhem.

Will Robert Webb and David Mitchell's El Dude Brothers, Jez and Mark, suddenly become Trotter-style winners? Will Jez and Super Hans succeed with their outrageous plot to get April's husband Angus out of the way? Will Jez face 40 without lying to his boyfriend?

While die-hard fans probably already have a good idea about the answers to these and other questions, they will not be disappointed by the excruciating, downbeat brilliance of this fabulous curtain call. This is a classic comedy that will be sorely missed.

Ben Dowell, Radio Times, 14th December 2015

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