Keywords:
	dd Couple' format Life's frustrations Point of View camerawork

STARRING:
David Mitchell -	Mark Corrigan
Robert Webb -	Jeremy Osbourne
Elizabeth Marmur -	Toni
Neil Fitzmaurice -	Jeff Heaney
Matt King -	Super Hans
Olivia Colman -	Sophie Chapman
Paterson Joseph -	Alan Johnson

Season

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Transmitted:	September 2003- October 2009	Seasons:	6
Overall Rating:		Last Updated:	13th November 2009

A very modern take on The Odd Couple dynamic sees Mark and Jeremy sharing a flat in London. Mark is a serious, vaguely depressed, straight down the line type of guy, who wants nothing more than to hold down a job that bores him rigid, and to marry a woman simply because he feels that that is what is expected. Conformity is his middle name. Jeremy is the exact opposite. Self-styled musical genius, he is a waster, unemployed, and content simply to take drugs, masturbate and hang out with his druggie mate Super Hans. The comedy comes from the embarrassment of the predicaments they find themselves in - most of which the viewer can relate to - and the verbal sparring between the two of them. The title is derived from the fact that each camera angle is a Point of View shot from one of the characters, so we are literally seeing the world through the eyes of the protaganists as the events unfold.. Bad language, sexualised ideas, drug use and general adult content abound and, luckily, it is absoulutely hilarious. Brilliantly irreverent.

Season 1	Season Rating:
Episode 1	Welcome to the vile world of Mark and Jeremy, 2 twenty somethings desperately searching for meaning in their life. Mark, straight laced, tied down to a corporate job he hates and with an unhealthy obsession with all things World War II. Jeremy, a slacker, hoping to break into the music industry even though he has no musical talent whatsoever. Here, Mark is terrorised by a group of teenagers who keep calling him a paedo whilst Jeremy agonises over having sex with a woman he thinks has leukemia, but works in the music business. What are you gonna do?
Episode 2	Mark decides to leave a 'wacky' cartoon note to impress Sophie and inadvertantantly leaves her a Swastika before embarrassing himself on an answer phone message. Jeremy gets into pyramid selling and deliberately screws up a job interview.
Episode 3	Mark goes bowling with a teenage goth whilst still clutching his shopping, worrying about whether his ice cream will defrost. Jeremy becomes embroiled in a love triangle involving a jilted lover and his gorgeous next door neighbour, but can't help himself from having really loud sex with the cuckold sitting in the very next room.
Episode 4	A high flyer at Mark's work wants to go into business together. Problem is, Mark begins to suspect he may have a gay crush on him. Jeremy has a black out moment after too much drink and drugs. He has a nasty suspicion he did 'a bad thing' during the missing time, if only he could remember what it was.
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Episode 5	A tale of revenge and betrayal that Shakespeare would be proud of: Sophie gets a job that Mark was after, so he pisses in his bosses drawer and takes up smoking. Super Hans gets it on with the sexy neighbour, so Jeremy decides to pepper spray him. Coming to the RSC soon.
Episode 6	Jeremy's Uncle dies leading him to explore all of the religions of the world. Mark cashes in on the sympathy vote at the funeral and gets a weekend away-date with Sophie. But what will she think of his massive freakish balls?
Season 2	Season Rating:
Episode 1	Mark breaks into Sophie's email account and discovers she thinks he is too uptight so, to prove her wrong, agrees to attend a New Wave dance class with her. Jeremy tags along to the dance class and has the good fortune to meet Nancy, a fine looking American filly who wants to break all known taboo's.
Episode 2	Mark makes a new friend and begins to believe he is normal. Trouble is, his new friend is a raging racist who attends Neo-Nazi WWII recreations. Super Hans has developed a new drug habit and will now 'suck for crack.'
Episode 3	Mark's getting desperate to keep Jeff's wandering hands off Sophie and takes to psying on them in the park. A local news team capture him on camera swigging from a can of lager and use him as their icon for anti-social behaviour. Jeremy pretends to believe in God and Jesus and to care about homeless people just to get Nancy to commit to him and him alone.
Episode 4	When Mark goes to buy a pair of new shoes, he has the good fortune to meet an attractive geek shop assistant, beautiful yet utterly insecure. The perfect woman. Now all he has to do is stalk her, and she'll be his.... Jeremy's quest to play a gig continues.
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Episode 5	Jeff makes it clear he feels no threat from Mark where Sophie is concerned. Mark decides to show her Das Boot. The old romantic.
Episode 6	Jeremy is overjoyed when nancy asks him to marry her. his enthusiasm is tempered only slightly when he realises that the marriage is one of convenience to allow her to stay in the country. Mark finally stands up to Jeff.
Season 3	Season Rating:
Mugging	Mark finally gets Sophie back to his place, ostensibly for work and, once there, she seems very keen to spice things up a little. Inevitably, Mark finds a way to screw things up. Jeremy feels jealous of a monk that Big Suze seems to have taken a shine to and is traumatised at the prospect of a threesome with an overbearing duo.
Sectioning	Jeremy and Super Hans are offered a pub to run which they plan to give an edgy name. Their suggestion? Free the Paedo's. The woman who wants to give them the pub turns out to be stark raving mad. How do they know? Well, she wants to have sex with Mark.
Shrooming	Jeremy plans a wild magic mushroom party, but Mark's bout of gastric sickness threatens to put a dampener on it. Mark manages to struggle back to work in a bid to impress Johnson.
Sistering	Mark starts to develop feelings for Big Suze. Jeremy accidentally sleeps with Mark's sister, before realising that she is just like her brother. Effectively, he's sleeping with Mark.
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Jurying	Jeremy winds up on jury service and inadvertantly has sex with the defendant. Mark pretends to take an E to impress Sophie.
Quontocking	Mark thinks that the relationship with Sophie is fizzling out and decides to propose as he can't think of any other way to prolong the dalliance. His location for the proposal? The Quantocks....
Season 4	Season Rating:
Sophie's Parents	Mark has to spend a weekend with the future in-laws just as he starts to have crippling doubts about the wedding plans. Jeremy has sex with Sophie's Mom. He is, quite literally, a motherfucker.
Conference	Jeremy attempts to pimp Big Suze out to Johnson and ends up out of pocket and sans The Suze. Mark goes feral when his work on Project Zeus hits the skids.
Gym	Mark joins a gym to get away from Sophie and discovers that Jeremy's old flame Nancy works there. Then they accuse a personal trainer of shitting in the pool. Oh, those crazy guys....
Handyman	Jeremy starts to work as a handyman for a techno icon of his. He won't end up sucking his cock, will he? Mark attends a school reunion and relives some past humiliations.
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Holiday	4 weeks to go until Mark's loveless wedding day, so Jeremy decides to take him on a stag weekend. Inevitably, they end the weekend with a dead dog in a carrier bag. We've all been there.....
Wedding	It's the big day. Can Mark go through with it? Or will he and Jeremy finsh the day hiding in the gallery raining piss on the guests?
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Burgling	Mark's still recovering from his none-wedding, so Jeremy manages to arrange a double date. Jeremy contracts VD. Mark tackles a burglar with his bare hands.
Spin War	Sophie's back at work and Mark is a social outcast. That is, until he meets new IT girl Dobby and has fully clothed sex with her in the stationery cupboard. Jeremy and Super Hans invite Sophie's cousin Barney to join the band, chiefly because he can actually write a tune. Won't be long before he sucks one of them off, surely?
Jeremy's Brooke	Mark gets fed up with Jeremy sponging off him, the last straw broken when Jez steals a sausage off his dinner plate. Mark invites a feisty Australian girl to live in the flat whilst Jeremy sleeps on the sofa. Trouble is, she might be totally fucking insane.
Jeremy's Mummy	Jeremy's mother stays for a while, prompting savage rudeness from her son, particularly when he finds out he may not get his full allocation of inheritance from a recently deceased relative. Meantime, Mark gets on famously with Jeremy's mothers boyfriend, an ex-military sort, a father figure to the wrong housemate before being raped by the military man's daughter.
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Jeremy's Manager	Jeremy and Super Hans get a manager for their band, a rather good looking young woman who happens to be something of a controlling tyrant. After rejecting Jeremy's sexual advances, she opts for Mark and instructs him precisely how to make love to her. Step by humiliating step.
Mark's Women	Dobby gets Mark into online gaming and live battle re-enactments, shortly before Mark inadvertantly impregnates his ex-wife, Sophie. Jeremy takes stock of his life and decides to join a cult.
Season 6	Season Rating:
Recession	Mark and Jeremy still don't know which one of them is the father of Sophie's child. With Mark now propelled into management, he finds Jeremy a lowly job at JBL, only for Johnson to inform everyone at the company that they are being made redundant, effective immediately....
Regression	Sophie wants Mark and Jeremy to take a DNA test to determine the paternity of her child. Jeremy thinks he has scored again with a beautiful Eastern European sort, the misguided fool, whilst Mark actually has scored with Dobby. Trouble is, his prowess is affected when he can't get thoughts of the imminent baby out of his mind.
Immersion	Jeremy is falling madly in love with Elena, though Mark suspects she may be exploiting him just to do the ironing, and his love for her causes him to take a 'wank bullet' at her place of work. Mark, meanwhile, is disturbed to find out that Sophie plans to go private for the birth of the child, landing him with a hefty £3,000 bill, and winds up taking a job as a historical tour guide in Ol' Lahndan Tahn. All goes well, until Jeremy takes yet another 'wank bullet.'
Aversion	Mark overhears Elena talking dirty on the phone behind Jeremy's back, but is reluctant to tell his housemate. Turns out, the other party is a woman, so Jeremy gets his hopes up of a menage a troi. Never gonna happen, Jez. Never gonna happen. Meantime, Johnson wants Mark to come in on a business venture, but Mark is worried that Johnson is losing his mind so takes a job at a Mexican restaurant called Bandito's instead. As you do.
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Impression	Mark tries to impress Dobby by throwing a party and sets about making sure there is enough lasagne to go round. Jeremy does his bit for the party by setting up puke points. Super Hans returns to the throng sporting a live rented snake in a bid to score with Tha Ladeez.
Episode 6	Sophie's big day is approaching and Mark decides he must learn to drive to get her to the hospital on time. Jeremy becomes convinced that he is purest evil, with the power to control the fate of others when a wish to see Elena's girlfriend drown almost comes true.