Channel Four's Peep Show is the best-written comedy on television and one of the few that I can watch over and over again. I don't know of anything remotely like it. Everyone I've shown the show to here in the U.S. hates it, absolutely hates it, possibly because it is unique, unlike any other show ever produced, with an ongoing narrative from either Jez the stoner or Mark Corrigan the geek, and the camera shoots scenes from the viewpoint of one of these two gentlemen. Although the show is about sex, drugs, and relationships, the writers toss in pedantic references to history, science, economics, politics, sexuality, psychology, and philosophy. Maybe people hate this show because it is an intellectual comedy.

I think the show bursts with brilliance, and many in the U.K. agree, because the show has endured eight seasons across the Atlantic and even spawned an inferior imitation in the U.S. The writing, the camera work, and the acting approach perfection, although the writing carries the show. Sadly, there is only one season remaining of Peep Show, the ninth, after which the show ends.

Thank goodness for our English brothers, producing the finest television shows in the world.