Starring: Spaced Average Rating: Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1 Binding: DVD Format: Box set, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC Label: BBC Warner Number of Items: 3 Region Code: 1 Release Date: July 22, 2008 Running Time: 350 minutes Theatrical Release Date: 2008
Amazon.com: It only takes one episode to become very protective of this 1999 British Comedy Award-winning series that put comedy soul mates Simon Pegg and Jessica Stevenson (now Hynes), as well as Nick Frost, and director Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz) on the map. One can only hope a threatened American version is never produced. This is one of those brilliant, off-center, lightning-in-a-bottle creations that gets you so jazzed, you want to turn all your friends on to it. Spaced (actually, Friends might have been a better title; too bad it was taken) stars Pegg and Stevenson as strangers Tim and Daisy, "amiable 20-somethings" who pose as a "professional couple" to rent an apartment. He is a recently-dumped aspiring comic book artist. She is an easily distracted writer. As the series unfolds, their apartment becomes an "island of calm in the ocean of life" as Tim and Daisy form a kind of 21st century family with their similarly misfit friends, including soused landlord Marsha (Julia Deakin), who lives with her teenager daughter (aka "the devil in a A cup," who is heard, but never quite seen), Brian (Mark Heap), an artist who deals in anger, fear, and aggression, Simon's best friend Mark (Frost), a militaristic gun nut, and Daisy's best friend, Twist (Katy Carmichael), a fashion poseur (in the series' penultimate episode, look for a pre-Office Ricky Gervais). Spaced is not so much interested in Tim and Daisy's charade as it is in cramming each episode with pop culture references and obscure in-jokes, and brilliantly realized film and TV homages, ranging from Woody Allen's Manhattan to Pulp Fiction and The Empire Strikes Back (Star Wars, especially, looms large in Tim's slacker universe). As with Arrested Development, Spaced benefits from repeat viewings to catch missed bits of business and gags that fly by at a Simpsons-esque rate. This Complete Series set is everything Spaced's fervent following would demand. Each episode is complemented by the original commentaries as well as newly-recorded gabfests that also feature American friends of the show, including Kevin Smith, Patton Oswalt, Quentin Taratinto, Matt Stone, Diablo Cody, and Bill Hader. There are deleted scenes and outtakes, and, best of all, an hour-long 2007 Q&A with Wright and the cast, in which Pegg allows that, had there been a third series (and we can still dream), it would have provided viewers hoping that Tim and Daisy would ultimately get together with "a moment to make every hair of your body stand on end." You will see such a moment if you "skip to the end" of the essential near two-hour series retrospective. --Donald Liebenson
Wasted months trying to decide if I should buy this series. I finally purchased it this month, and it's worth every cent. What an excellent show, full of orgional humor, outstanding characters and very funny takes on all kinds of films and film cliche's. If you're a fan of Peep Show and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, you're likely to enjoy this show. It's not as crude as Peep Show or It's Always Sunny, but it is just as funny.
Well Written, Acted and short lived comedy series It's an odd thing to find out about a television show that only lasted 2 seasons several years ago. I personally couldn't get enough of this show.
Written by Simon Pegg (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, and the yet to be released How to Lose Friends and Alienate People) and Jessica Hynes (Son of Rambow), the show centers on two 20 somethings searching for an apartment. What they find is an ad for an apartment stating that "Professional Couples Only" may apply. The show takes off from there, when they attempt to forge a fraudulent relationship in order to secure a good apartment. That's the basic premise of the show, from there it turns into sitcom like situations, told in a very unusual way.
Now there's obviously things that we Americans won't get right off the bat. Phrases and slang we aren't 100% used to, but these thing didn't take away from the humor and sometimes insanity of this show. The show reminded me a little bit of Scrubs in the way it presented thoughts and quick cuts to flashbacks or character's thoughts. But the humor is centered really around homage to movies, games, and nerdom. The show is released right around the time of Episode 1... So expect many many jokes around that.... AND ENJOY IT! Added bonus, the man who actually did the voice of "Darth Maul" has a part in this series as a bad guy... PLEASE watch out for his lines mirroring Darth Maul's only lines.
Again, I loved this show. It wasn't quite like Shaun of the Dead, but it was a lot like Hot Fuzz in that it was obviously paying tribute to all the other genre's out there with quoted lines and music. There are so many small moments when they use one or two lines or just a few actions to mimic a movie, it's extremely well done. I guess the only other thing I'd have to say is, watch the series once and try to find all the lines from other movies... then watch it again with Homage Meter. I missed quite a lot...
great comedy with bonus: no canned laughter I love all the episodes, especially the one with the performance artist named "Vulva". I've been a fan of Simon Pegg since I saw him on Dylan Moran's "Black Books"; I think that's available on region 1 DVD now too.
Spaced - classic Spaced has shown up late on US shores, a late 1990's show from Britain. If you have seen Shaun of the Dead and/or Hot Fuzz, the humor is not going to surprise you.
The show surrounds the experiences of a couple who move in together as a matter of convenience when they both need somewhere to live. In their flat (part of a sub-divided house) we find an eclectic group of neighbours and friends. Recurring themes tie most episodes together. Almost every episode is some kind of homily to some kind of Pop Culture phenomenom. Star Wars and Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind are some of the visual and/or dialog references. Zombie movies later immortalized in "Shaun of the Dead" are previewed here (noting the series predates the movie).
Wright and Pegg deliver throughout. Hilarious and addictive.
GREAT SHOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I first got turned on to this show through watching "Shaun of the Dead" and "Hot Fuzz". Listening to the commentary on those two films, Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright referred to Spaced alot. So I decided to watch it. This show is hilarious and for some reason it reminds me alot of my life, well with out so much drug use. GREAT SHOW!!!!!!!
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