Oh good god this is painful. The craven surrender to the burglar, Mark's usual horrendous form. I don't know why I keep watching, my skin crawls as much as I'm laughing.

Was it on earlier this evening?

I thought it was on at about 10, for some reason.

"hate sponge" was my favourite Mark-ism from this series' first episode.

Sorry 200, I had last week's recorded and was just watching it.

Ah, cheers.

I thought last week's episode (the one Crusoe has just watched) struggled with a slow start (tying up the loose ends of the first series) but worked its way to quite a head of steam.

Oh, Jesus. That second episode almost gave me a turn.

that was even more painful than the first

"let me chew on your weird hair" indeed

Even better than that, this eppisode contained possibly the most hilarious moment of any Peep Show - a mug emblazoned simply with repetitive instances of the word 'Harpenden'.

Comedy beyond genius.

i'm amazed they keep on managing to crank up the discomfort as they keep going; all the "sucking off" last night, the spattered pants, sophie's dad outside the club.

the funniest programme around at the moment.

Hmm. Hmm.

Look. The glory of the early series of Peep Show was the comic insight that if you could see into our thoughts, we'd all come across as utter weirdos. Which we would.

I think that's watered down, a lot, if the people concerned are evidently, in plain sight, utter weirdos in the first place. And that's what Mark and Jeremy have become.

It's still a funny show, but it's less true. Less Peep Show than Freak Show, you might say, if you were seduced by the desire for a glib payoff line, like.

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if you were seduced by the desire for a glib payoff line, like

I was seduced. And now I feel all dirty and wanton.

That original insight seems to me like a discovery that can't be re-made an infinite number of times, Wyatt. So this is a natural progression.

Having said that, what I like about this series so far so much is that it's gone back to the old school in terms of the plotting and characters (ie fewer distracting not-Mark-or-Jeremy characters, whole episodes confined to the flat/Mark's office etc).

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I think that's watered down, a lot, if the people concerned are evidently, in plain sight, utter weirdos

Do you mean in the 'plain sight' of the viewer, or of other characters? What exactly makes Mark and Jeremy 'utter weirdos' in plain sight?

I'm so glad this series has returned to form given that the last one was a little disappointing.