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This show was dubbed as the English "Friends", however I think that was a little unfair to "Coupling". Although Friends is funny, this is articulate, witty and with just a touch of sexual perversion. Of course there are similarities - it revolves around 6 late twenty-something ... Read review
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close-knit group comprising "exes and best friends": womaniser Jack, hapless nice guy Steve, "strange and disturbing" Jeff, uninhibited Susan, neurotic Sally and mani...
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Couplingis a witty, instantly addictive series that charts the tangled sex lives of a ... more
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City.Couplingcharts the tangled sex lives of a close-knit group comprising "exes and best friends": womanizer Jack, hapless nice guy Steve, "strange and disturbing" Jeff, uninhibited Susan, neurotic Sally, and manipulative Jane.Couplingmay inspire feelings of déjà-vu. The obvious frame of reference isFriends(Steve and Susan are the Ross-Rachel equivalent), but this series also echoesSeinfeldin its coinage of catch-phrases (although it's doubtful that "the boyfriend zone" will replace "master of your domain") and plotlines (in episode one, Steve tries to dump Jane, who refuses to accept). ButCouplinghas its own fresh and provocative takes on relationships. At one point, a furious Susan discovers that Patrick not only had a videotape of the former couple having sex, but that he also taped over her.In Steven Moffat's second season, theres a brilliant consolidation of all the neuroses, small deceits, obsessions, and personality ticks that struck such a resonant chord when Steve, Susan, and their four friends were first unleashed on us. The success of this is due to the magical combination of Moffat's very funny scripts and the talents of six extremely likeable actors, including Jack Davenport (Steve) and Sarah Alexander (Susan). But it's Richard Coyle's Jeff whose sexual fantasies exert a compelling fascination that will really keep you watching in disbelief. Breasts, bottoms and pants are the basis for most of the conversational analysis when these friends get together as a group, as couples, as girlfriends, or as mates, invariably becoming metaphors for the state of a relationship or situation. Individual viewpoints and terrors are explored through respective memories of the same event and what-if scenarios. Chain reactions inevitably ensue, fuelling comedy that is based almost entirely on misunderstanding.The third series, first aired in 2002, takes fans into new realms of engaging surrealism. The men are constantly in pursuit of a basic grasp of the "emotional things" that make women behave the way they do. The women analyze everything to death. But again thanks to Steve Moffat's scripts, tighter and quirkier than ever, these characters are living, breathing human beings rather than cynical ciphers for comedy stereotypes. The performances are as strong as you'd expect from an established team, with actors such as Jack Davenport, Ben Miles (unreconstructed chauvinist Patrick), Sarah Alexander, and Kate Isitt (neurotic Sally) wearing their roles like second skins. But in the surreal stakes, it's Richard Coyle as Jeff, wondering aloud what happens to jelly after women have finished wrestling in it, and Gina Bellman as Jane, musing on the importance of a first snog in identifying what men like to eat, who really raise the laughter levels. All things considered, this is superior comedy for all thirtysomethings--genuine and putative.Then we get to series four - feel free to insert your own "four-play" joke, or for that matter, your own "insert" jokes! Sex is still topic one for the intertwined group of "exes and best friends," but in this pivotal season there are momentous "relationship issues" that will upend all their lives (insert your own "upend" joke while you're at it). Susan is pregnant, inspiring nightmares in Steve about his own execution and unflattering comparisons of the birth process to John Hurt's iconic gut-busting scene inAlien. Missing in action is the Kramer-esque Jeff (although he makes something of a return in the season finale). Joining the ensemble is Oliver, who is more in the Chandler mode as a lovable loser with the ladies. These inevitable comparisons to "Sein-Friends" are no doubt heresy toCoupling's most devoted viewers. Indeed, this series does benefit from creator and sole writer Steven Moffat's comic voice and vision. He provides his ever-game cast some witty, funny-'cause-it's-true dialogue, as in Oliver's observation that "Tea isn't compatible with porn." A bonus disc takes viewers behind the scenes with segments devoted to bloopers and interviews with cast and crew.This Britcom is less inhibited in language and sexual situations than its American counterparts. In the cleverly-constructed opening episode, in which the same "9-1/2 Minutes" are witnessed from three different perspectives, Sally and Jane can do what was left to the imagination when Monica and Rachel offered to make out in front of Joey and Chandler. The birth of Susan and Steven's baby ends the six-episode fourth season on a satisfying and surprisingly moving grace note.Plot Synopsis:On average, men and women think about sex every six seconds. Shorten that to every second, and you've gotCoupling. It's more than just a one night stand! When a couple gets together, it's never just the two of them - they also bring baggage - and Susan (Sarah Alexander) and Steve (Jack Davenport) are no exception. Their baggage is a crowd of best friends and exes who talk about all aspects of sex and relationships on their never-ending quest to find true love.Couplinghas been honoured with the prestigious Silver Rose of Montreux, Best TV Comedy Award, and was a winner at the 2003 British Comedy Awards.
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Production Year: 2004 - Drama - Director: Nick Cassavetes - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over, 12 years and over - Starring: Rachel McAdams, Ryan Gosling, Gena Rowlands
Production Year: 1995 - Drama - Director: Ang Lee - Original Language: English - Classification: Universal - Starring: Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman, Kate Winslet, Hugh Grant, Greg Wise, Hugh Laurie, Robert Hardy
Advantages: Funny, well written comedy Disadvantages: Quite expensive for 6 episodes, no extras
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Overall:
Coupling is one of the most well written comedy series to come out of Britain in the last decade. It is shot in an unconventional way, with captions, flashbacks and even repeats in different languages.The relationships developing between the characters as they realise each others boundaries is great. Plus some of the conversations between the boys are both surreal and hilarious. Steve's monologues as he gets stressed are ... ...is only 6 episodes long you can really identify with the characters. Jeff is every pervy and slightly social inept guy rolled into one. This is sometimes repeated on UKTV Gold an is well worth a watch if you want a great dialogue based show rather than one based on more slapstick physical comedy. Will be reviewing series 2 and 3 shortly ... more
Written by: Stephen Moffat (Jekyll, Doctor Who)
Starring: Jack Davenport (Pirates of the Caribbean, This Life) Sarah Alexander (Green Wing, Smack the Pony) Gina Bellman (Jekyll) Kate Isitt (Strictly Confidential, Is it legal?) Ben Miles (V for Vendetta, Cold Feet) Richard Coyle (Human Traffic, Lorna Doone)
Originally shown on: BBC 2
Running Time: 174 minutes.
Plot Summary: This show was dubbed as the English "Friends", however I think that was a little unfair to "Coupling". Although Friends is funny, this is articulate, witty and with just a touch of sexual perversion. Of course there are similarities - it revolves around 6 late twenty-something men and women, the dynamic between them, and they spen most of their time hanging out at a trendy wine bar (Alcohol is the British coffee!)
Characters:
Steve Taylor (Davenport) - Steve is the leader of the boys. At the start of the series he is struggling to break up with Jane, but keeps getting distracted by her suggestive comments of lesbianism and stockings.
Patrick Maitland (Miles) - Patrick is the ultimate playboy. He has a powerful job, fast car and the nickname of the "donkey." He only sees women as objects to sleep with and if they won't they must be lesbians. He used to date Susan.
Jeff Murdock (Coyle) - Jeff is the eccentric Welsh pervert who is obsessed with women and scarred by a bizaare relationship with his mother. He has theories on every relationship matter including "unflushable girlfriends", "the melty man" and the "giggle loop"
Susan Walker (Alexander) - A professional woman who starts the series having a casual fling with Patrick, but quickly ends up with Steve. Works with Jeff and is old friends with Sally
Jane Christie (Bellman) - Jane is the most self obsessed woman on the planet who knows just how to manipulate everyone around her.
Sally Harper (Isitt) - A beautician desperate not to get old and therefore only smiles and single men to avoid wasting the elasticity of her skin. Old friends with Susan but secretly resents ger for being so perfect.
Episodes:
1 Flushed - Steve wants to dump Jane, but she wont take no for an answer. In the same bar Patrick and Susan are also breaking up. After nipping out of the toilet cubicle to grab a condom, Steve bumps into Susan and asks her out. On their date Jeff turns up to make sure he is not the topic of discussion, Jane then shows up after phoning all the taxi firms to hunt him down, then Sally and Patrick turn up on their own date. The whole first date debarcle is resolved by a public breast flashing incident with the statement "I intend this breast satirically!"
2 Size Matters - After Steve rings Susan and completely forgets the whole English language, he finally gets round to arranging their proper first date.Susan offers to cook which the girls identify as code for "Lets have sex and I will cater." After the girls overhear the boys conversation about the best time to take your socks off during foreplay the date commences. Sally makes it clear to Patrick she will never have sex with him as he is a Tory, but is devastated to learn of his nickname "The Donkey" shortly after. At finding this out Steve becomes inesecure abiut sleeping with Susan so send Jeff into the toilet to find out what they are dealing with - just as Sally does the same. Meanwhile Jane tries to make Steve jealous by dating a gay man.
3 Sex death and nudity - As Jane has forgotten to tell her family that her and Steve broke up, he has to escort her to her aunts funeral. Not happy with this arrangement, Susan invites herself along and invites Patrick along as her date, unaware that he has already asked Jeff. Patrick then asks Sally along much to her distress as she hates elderly peope. Meanwhile Jeff has taken to imagining everyone naked to help him get through a job interview and teaches everyone the giggle loop - a concept where you can't hold a laugh in at wildly inappropriate moments.
4 Inferno - Steve finds Susan cleaning his flat and was shocked after realising he had left "Lesbian Spank Inferno" in the video player. Susan decides to hold a dinner party at Steves and invites the whole group over - all of who know about the tape but all too embarassed to mention it. During an awkward silence Steve tells Susan he loves her, which irritates Jane. Jane then convinces her therapist along to the party but Steve thinks she is her new girlfriend. The dinner party obviosly descends into comedic chaos with the therapist thinking Patrick is gay thanks to his new 'hardman haircut.'
5 The Girl with two breasts - The boys are in the bar checking out a beautiful woman. After discussing the merits of breast having individual brains and how if women were telepathic they would kill all men for being perverts, Jeff decides to go and chat her up. Unfortunately (or fortunately for Jeff) she doesn't understand a word of English. After watching the conversation from Jeffs point of view, we then rewind it and see it from the girls point of view. The resulting confusion is hilarious
6 The cupboard of Patrick's love - Jane unexpectedly turns up at Patrick's flat and discovers a cupboard filled with videos with girls names on them. He has videoed every woman he has slept with and stored it in the cupboard. Steve isn't happy that there is a tape of Susan there, as is Susan when Jane tells her. The story is interrupted by the noys discussion of the best naked actresses including Britt Eckland and Helen Mirren and Jeffs childhood sexual arousal at the television set. So all the boys go to Patrick's to watch the video much to Susans disgust
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Overall: Coupling is one of the most well written comedy series to come out of Britain in the last decade. It is shot in an unconventional way, with captions, flashbacks and even repeats in different languages.The relationships developing between the characters as they realise each others boundaries is great. Plus some of the conversations between the boys are both surreal and hilarious. Steve's monologues as he gets stressed are well written and brilliantly delivered, and even though the series is only 6 episodes long you can really identify with the characters. Jeff is every pervy and slightly social inept guy rolled into one. This is sometimes repeated on UKTV Gold an is well worth a watch if you want a great dialogue based show rather than one based on more slapstick physical comedy. Will be reviewing series 2 and 3 shortly
beckle_82 03.08.2007 (03.08.2007)
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Review of Coupling - Series 1 - The Complete Series (DVD)
Advantages: Hilarious, clever, witty, great cast, fantastic writing. Disadvantages: Only six episodes, no extras.
...TV was Charlie’s Angels!
Coupling will be going into its fourth series next year and the first three are already available on DVD. This review concentrates on the DVD of the first series.
CAST AND CHARACTERS
Coupling concentrates on a group of six thirty-something characters, who are all either friends, partners or exes – and sometimes all three at once. The three men are Patrick (Ben Miles), Jeff (Richard Coyle) and Steve (Jack Davenport). ... ...would be hard to imagine Coupling without one of the main six, so hopefully they will continue to work together. The combination of these six actors and Steven Moffat’s inspired writing is a winning one.
STYLE
The opening credits are bright and colourful, with a kind of 1960s feel to them. Squares in bright colours move across a dark blue background. The music is Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps by Mari Wilson and is perfect for the programme – ...
KarenUK 03.11.2003
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Advantages: Funnyiest comedy i've seen. Disadvantages: They only did four series.
...that i am a BIG coupling fan, i am going to cheat because i've taken the introduction to the characters from that one and just copied it over. So if you've read this part already, just skip to the episode descriptions.
Heres the back ground Information then:
This is basically an english version of friends, but alot more easy to relate to. Every single one of us will have a friend like these, or at elast one or two of them.
Steve and Susan are ... ...in some way, i'll explain later. Steve is a guy in the relationship, under the thumb slightly, not too sure where the relationship is going. He wants to marry Susan, he just doesn't want to marry Susan. As he describes it "Its like death, you know its imminent, you just get scared when people start mentioning dates." Susan is for want of a better word, a nympho, and thats just how steve likes it, these two are perfect for each other. There always ...
SCHA1 06.08.2005
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Advantages: Hilarious, comedy at its finest Disadvantages: There aren't enough episodes!
Coupling is one of those rare television gems that make you proud to be British. It’s often described as a British version of Friends, but really, that’s only true in the way it’s about a group of six 30-somethings looking for love, usually with hilarious consequences. Coupling is different, Steven Moffat writes about issues that we have all thought about at one time or another, yet no one has ever written about it before. For example, you know when ... ...overwhelming urge to laugh for no apparent reason? Well, that’s in there, among an endless debate about what a cushion is actually for, and exactly why do men like lesbians so much?
The show focuses on the relationship between Steve (played by Jack Davenport) and Susan (played by Sarah Alexander). The audience follows them from their very first date and beyond. They’re accompanied by Susan’s age fearing best friend Sally (played by Kate Issit) and ...
xradishx 22.06.2007
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Advantages: Very funny, witty, well planned comedy Disadvantages: no extras, no deleted scenes etc
Coupling is very similar to US sitcom 'Friends' as it follows a group of 6 friends through some very funny and real-life situations that everyone can relate to.
I kind of stumbled accross Coupling one night and havent been able to turn off the telly since. I believe series one is by far the best series of the show and would highly recommend it.
Cast
Coupling follows six friends: The lads- Jeff (Richard Coyle) - By far the strangest one of the ... ...possibly the funniest of all characters and he is a nervous, slightly odd man who is useless with the women.
Patrick (Ben Miles) - The opposite to Jeff when it comes to women. Patrick is the smooth-talking, cool character you can imagine buying a new car off. A total womaniser with the 'sexual politics of a donkey', Patrick is the man the girls love.
Steve (Jack Davenport) - Steve is the, well, normal one of the lads. Plain, smart, sarcastic and ...
markcurtis7 03.11.2006
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Advantages: Very witty, sexually charged humour Disadvantages: If you don't like comedy, definitely not for you
I cannot understand the american mentality of not liking this. Possibly because there is an extraordinarily funny Welshman in it and couldn't understand his accent? I don't know...but they must be foolish to have rejected it!
I absolutely adore coupling. In the first series, there are 6 episodes but despite that, each and everyone is utter class. Basically for those of you who don't know what this comedy series is about 3 lads and 3 gals (maybe ... ...30ish and are all somehow sexually related i.e ex, current boy/girlfriend etc. Susan and Steve are the main couple, and get together over the course of the first two episodes. Their best friends and ex's all end up meeting and its carnage. Their is an awful lot of sexual inuendo and the series is just fantastic.
I'm not going to tell you about each and every episode because that'd give the game away, but i've got all 4 series on DVD and each episode ...
DirtyBerty01 29.09.2004
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A series which revolves around Susan and Steve who meet and start going out together. Also follows the effect it has on their friends... Features the episodes 'Flushed', 'Size Matters', 'Sex, Death And Nudity', 'Inferno', 'The Girl With Two Breasts' and 'The Cupboard Of Patrick's Love'.
Release details
DVD Region
DVD
Studio(s)
2 ENTERTAIN VIDEO; SONY DADC
Release date
17/09/2001
No of Discs
1
Catalogue No
BBCD 01
Barcode
5014138068653
Languages
Main Language
English
Technical information
Aspect Ratio
16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
Sound
Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Dubbing Sound
Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo English
DVD Description
This BBC series intended to be a FRIENDS across the Atlantic offers the same virtual scenario as the New York-based series with one exception, a greater emphasis on sex. Six friends in various states of relationships are caught in hilarious and often embarrassing situations that usually lead to sexual tension, if not out-and-out sexual activity. This collection comprises the entire first season.
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