"Coupling" (2000) Seriados de TV 2000-2004

Avaliação/usuário:

9,2/10   

Seasons:

1 | 2 | 3 | 4

Release Date:

1 Setembro 2001 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy

Chamada:

Up for a threesome?

Plot:

On average, men and women think about sex every six seconds. Shorten that to every second, and you've got Coupling...

Plot Keywords:

Sex | Friend | Aging | Commitment | Boyfriend

Awards:

2 wins & 2 nominations

Comentários dos usuários:

The UK trumps the Yanks in the sitcom dept.

Cast

Jack Davenport	...	Steve Taylor / ... (28 episódios, 2000-2004)
Gina Bellman	...	Jane Christie / ... (28 episódios, 2000-2004)
Sarah Alexander	...	Susan Walker / ... (28 episódios, 2000-2004)
Kate Isitt	...	Sally Harper / ... (28 episódios, 2000-2004)
Ben Miles	...	Patrick Maitland / ... (28 episódios, 2000-2004)
Richard Coyle	...	Jeffrey 'Jeff' Murdock (22 episódios, 2000-2002)

Duração:

30 min

País:

UK

Língua:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1,78 : 1

Som:

Stereo

Censura:

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)

Filming Locations:

Chiswick, London, England, UK

Company:

Hartswood Films

Pegadinha:

From the original airing of the Season 3 finale where Susan discovers that she is pregnant, to the airing of the series finale when she has the baby, 19 months and 10 days have elapsed.

Quotes:

Susan: Well, you know what it's like at the start, when they're all fiery-eyed, and eager, and they haven't seen you naked yet. And it's like he's smashing at your door with his mighty battering ram. And he's promising to ravish you forever. So you brace yourself for man overload...

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Screenwipe: (#2.3)" (2006)

Soundtrack:

Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps

The UK trumps the Yanks in the sitcom dept.

I'm an American who just saw Season 1 of "Coupling" on DVD for the first time. Based on those first six episodes, I think the BBC's "Coupling" -- along with a new US series over here called "Arrested Development" -- is possibly the sharpest, funniest, and best-written situation comedy since the golden days of Norman Lear and MJM Productions.

The cast chemistry is amazing. The archetypes are extremely identifiable, even over here, which is why the series translates so well. In comedies the subject of sex is often treated adolescently, and it's true that the characters in "Coupling" have some childish, "American Pie" reactions to sexual politics, but they're still, clearly, adults. As with "American Pie," there's a big heart behind the hormones and phermones. But the gags in "Coupling" are brilliantly written and executed. The writers don't take the easy way out; the bawdiness of their humor is cut with intelligence and a really, REALLY great sense of left-field punch lines. Maybe naysayers have to wander through the bereft nature of many American sitcoms to understand why "Coupling" is so appreciated by a cult American audience, but it's the real deal.

Episode 4 of Season 1, called "Inferno," contains an extended monologue in which an embarrassed male character attempts to outline the plot of a lesbian porn film. He is forced to defend his affection for the stuff by being asked to give a cogent plot summary. He's squirming under this challenge -- he's got to defend his proclivities, maintain a balance between self-defense and self-effacement, and STILL intellectualize the plot of the film enough to prove he's smart enough to rise above it. This whole sequence is, possibly, the best-written and funniest 5-minute quasi-monologue ever to be televised.

"Coupling" takes a traditionally pubescent subject matter, the puerile male fascination with sex, opposes it with the progress of rational thought, and is extremely funny in the process. Lots of US sitcoms (and some UK ones) are lucky if they get one horse laugh from the viewer every three minutes. "Coupling's" ratio is more like one horselaugh every thirty seconds. It's that good.

(I never saw the NBC version of this show, incidentally, and have no interest -- apparently it sucked. I can understand why someone would want to use the BBC version as source material, though.)