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Before there was Hot Fuzz or Shaun of the Dead, there was Spaced. Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, and Edgar Wright were all working on this comedy series for the BBC, and I have to say that it is my absolute favorite TV show ever. Spaced Stars Simon Pegg and Jessica Hynes as Tim Bisley and Daisy Steiner, respectively. Tim is an aspiring comic artist whose career is at a stand still and is heart broken (and most likely mentally disturbed) after his girlfriend leaves him. Tim’s best friend is Mike (Nick Frost) a man who wants nothing more than to be a soldier, but was kicked out of the army due to his stealing of a tank and invading France on his own, where he was apprehended on top of Space Mountain at what was once EuroDisney Land. Daisy is a writer who never seems to have anything to write about. Daisy is both creative and lazy, two traits that never mix. She’ll take any excuse to blow off actually working, and those excuses usually lead to, you guessed it, working. Daisy is friends with a girl named Twist. Tim and Daisy are also friends with a pretentious and neurotic artist named Brian, as well as their landlady Marsha. Now here’s the twist. Tim and Daisy live together, under the false pretense that they are a “professional couple”, so that they can both keep their apartment, as Marsha said in her newspaper ad “professional couple only”. This, of course, hinders their lovelives.
The show was written by both Pegg and Hynes, which makes them perfectly fit their characters. And the humor of it is wonderful. It’s able to have the perfect mix of pop culture references and original witty dialogue. It goes into great fantasy sequences, and it’s amazingly hilarious. Edgar Wright’s directing is fantastic. It is obviously the same director from the aforementioned films. Unfortunately, there were only two seasons of the series, with a third one only most likely never happening, but never fear, because the series does get a dignified ending.
You can pick the series up here! Trust me, it is well worth it!
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