Simon Pegg, Jessica Hynes, the fantastic Nick Frost and the superbly dry Mark Heap as downstairs neighbour and whacky artist, in this trippy, in-joke, homage-a-plenty romp. Tim and Daisy (Pegg and Hynes) pretend to be together to get a flat that requested couples only. They're both slackers (aspiring graphic novel artist and journalist respectively), and nothing much happens but they are both drama-queens, off the wall and it's written so tongue in cheek, and more or less everything is a representation of something else or a gratuitous take off of it. Very dry humour, drugs, sexual references and bad language so not for everyone, but if you were relatively young in the nineties and don't laugh at this I wonder if you have all your neurons firing. There are lots of set pieces, repetitive montages and crazy monologues by Pegg. Nick Frost is TA gun enthusiast Mike and he's the comedy relief in this otherwise already comedy; totally nuts and laugh out loud funny with the bromance between Pegg and Frost superbly referenced. Their comedic timing is just perfect. Both of the two series are short at seven episodes each but it's great laughs, penned by both Simon Pegg and Jessica Hynes (nee Stevenson), the stars of the show, demonstrating an originality and freshness, something a little different in the world of the humble sitcom.
Spaced
(1999–2001)
Late 90s Brit slacker sitcom - cuppa tea and jaffa cakes essential
27 January 2013