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Release Date:
1 September 2001 (USA)
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Tagline:
Up for a threesome? more
Plot:
On average, men and women think about sex every six seconds. Shorten that to every second, and you've got Coupling...
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Awards:
2 wins
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2 nominations
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(15 articles)
Weekly DVD & Blu-Ray Chopping List 11/17/2009
(From Fangoria. 17 November 2009, 9:00 PM, PST)
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(From Fangoria. 17 November 2009, 9:00 PM, PST)
Watch Out!: Ultraviolet (1998)
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OMFG -- Brilliant!!
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Cast
(Series Cast Summary - 6 of 16) | Jack Davenport | ... | Steve Taylor / ... (28 episodes, 2000-2004) |
 | Gina Bellman | ... | Jane Christie / ... (28 episodes, 2000-2004) |
 | Sarah Alexander | ... | Susan Walker (28 episodes, 2000-2004) |
| Kate Isitt | ... | Sally Harper / ... (28 episodes, 2000-2004) |
| Ben Miles | ... | Patrick Maitland / ... (28 episodes, 2000-2004) |
| Richard Coyle | ... | Jeffrey 'Jeff' Murdock (22 episodes, 2000-2002) |
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30 min
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1.78 : 1 more
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USA:TV-14 |
USA:TV-MA (one episode) |
Singapore:NC-16 |
Argentina:13 |
Germany:12 (DVD rating) |
Portugal:M/12 |
Finland:K-7 (DVD) |
Australia:M |
UK:15 (DVD rating)
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Trivia:
Susan frequently enters a scene saying, "Sorry, I'm late." This is a dig at producer Sue Vertue who, according to Steven Moffat, tends to turn up late quite often.
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Jane:
I'm being stalked, actually, so I'm pretty secure in my attractiveness.
Susan: You're being stalked?
Jane: Is that so hard to believe?
Sally: My god!
Jane: Everyday on my way home from work, a man follows me. It's true.
Susan: Well, have you been to the police?
Jane: They said I was being silly and paranoid. I heard them laughing after I left.
Sally: That's terrible!
Susan: Well, have you confronted the man who follows you?
Jane: Well, there's no point, is there? It's never the same man twice. Sometimes they switch over when I'm halfway home. It's so well organized!
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Susan: You're being stalked?
Jane: Is that so hard to believe?
Sally: My god!
Jane: Everyday on my way home from work, a man follows me. It's true.
Susan: Well, have you been to the police?
Jane: They said I was being silly and paranoid. I heard them laughing after I left.
Sally: That's terrible!
Susan: Well, have you confronted the man who follows you?
Jane: Well, there's no point, is there? It's never the same man twice. Sometimes they switch over when I'm halfway home. It's so well organized!
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in "Little Britain: Most People in a Mini (#1.8)" (2003)
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Soundtrack:
Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps
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I'm a Yank who is only now catching the show on local PBS, courtesy of BBC America. I never saw the (aborted) NBC attempt and, having seen about a half dozen episodes, I'm glad I *didn't* As someone old enough to remember "Monty Python" from it's original run, I must agree with other posters that I feared that truly hysterical "Brit wit" was a thing of the past. I never really cared much for "Fawlty Towers" (as much as I love Mr. Cleese), and only the medieval episodes of Black Adder really tickled me fancy.
But "Coupling" -- hoo hah! Anyone who compares this to "Friends" has clearly never watched more than an episode. At the height of its mild amusement, "Friends" never equaled the least of this absolutely *brilliant* series. For all the stereotypes of Brits as dry, stuck-up and stodgy, I've found that, humour-wise, we across the pond can't hold a candle...
"Coupling" is the height of "cultured rudeness" in the vein of "Absolutely Fabulous" -- one of the most adult Brit-coms I've ever seen. Every episode is consistently ROTFLMAO funny. I couldn't even begin to pick a fave character.
Patrick plays the "stud" character in an amusingly original manner: he has his way with the chicks, and yet is dim enough to not *totally* emasculate us lesser males. The episode where one of the gals has him bring out the "big guns" in the loo, to intimidate a bloke, is something you'd NEVER see on American TV.
Jeff is.... well, the most creatively addled loon since Seinfeld's Kramer, albeit *nothing* like him. Almost a child-man, he reminds me of the Frasier line in "Cheers" - "What color is the sky in *your* world?" Jane is so annoyingly self-absorbed and yet, like Jeff, also such a waif that you don't totally despise her. It amazes how the series' creators walk the edge, crafting characters that *ought* to pluck your last nerve but, unlike George and Kramer from Seinfeld, could actually be tolerable in real life.
The other three characters are brilliantly crafted as well, but these three stand out after the limited viewing I've been exposed to. I have never even considered purchasing a TV series on DVD but, in addition to wanting to see at least the entire first three seasons (I have read here that Jeff is not in the fourth season, and I don't think I could warm up to a substitute), I really must turn on many of my close friends to this marvelous show.
For those of you Yanks out there who only know of this show from NBC's feeble attempt to import it, you *must* catch this on your local PBS station if and when it airs, or pester them incessantly until it does. You'll not only understand why the attempt at translation failed, but you'll finally get to see what the fuss was all about.
If *anything* on the American telly was this consistently funny, we wouldn't have to suffer the endless rot of "reality" TV, and the "dead in half a season" warmed over '70s-era situation (non)comedies. Twelve out of ten... a *MUST SEE*!!!