"Spaced" is a perfect portrait of my generation (well, pretty much my generation - I was born in 1979). It features everything I associate with people my age - clubbing, gratuitous pop culture references, heavy-duty substance abuse and, of course, chronic laziness.
I probably shouldn't like it, because I tend to get really bored with TV shows and movies about shiftless twenty-somethings getting stoned. But "Spaced," weirdly enough, manages to balance its sarcasm and weirdness with brains and creativity and even a dash of sentiment. I like the characters, and I root for them to succeed, which is more than I can say for the jerks on "Seinfeld" or "Sex and the City"!
I've also gotta admire Spaced because it looks so damned cool. Director Edgar Wright probably labored under a typical British budget of eight pence per episode, but he created some really freakish and memorable imagery. And the camera-work is great - how often can you say that about a sitcom?
I have a slight preference for the second-season episodes, but basically the whole thing rules. I find it addicting. Once I watch the first episode, I find that I have to blast through the whole series in a day or two.
I have maybe only one interesting (and possibly heretical) observation. Has anyone else noticed that, of all the lead characters, Daisy is the only one who's sort of unpleasant? Think about it...
I probably shouldn't like it, because I tend to get really bored with TV shows and movies about shiftless twenty-somethings getting stoned. But "Spaced," weirdly enough, manages to balance its sarcasm and weirdness with brains and creativity and even a dash of sentiment. I like the characters, and I root for them to succeed, which is more than I can say for the jerks on "Seinfeld" or "Sex and the City"!
I've also gotta admire Spaced because it looks so damned cool. Director Edgar Wright probably labored under a typical British budget of eight pence per episode, but he created some really freakish and memorable imagery. And the camera-work is great - how often can you say that about a sitcom?
I have a slight preference for the second-season episodes, but basically the whole thing rules. I find it addicting. Once I watch the first episode, I find that I have to blast through the whole series in a day or two.
I have maybe only one interesting (and possibly heretical) observation. Has anyone else noticed that, of all the lead characters, Daisy is the only one who's sort of unpleasant? Think about it...