Coupling

Coupling has been called a 'British version of Friends' by some but realistically it's as good if not at some points, funnier than Friends and just because it has 6 main characters (3 girls 3 guys) doesn't make it the next Friends. Anyway, Friends issues aside this show is comedy gold. It follows the lives of... Jeff (the paranoid/strange guy) Patrick (the stud who has a wardrobe full of videos of women he's slept with) Steve (who can never say the right thing) Jane (the dizzy one) Susan (the down to earth blonde) Sally (the beautician obsessed with aging) The show spanned 3 good ...

Most of the programmes that my daughters like I detest and can't watch most of them, mostly because they are horrors or about vampire slayers! However they do occasionally watch some little gems of programmes in which Coupling is one of them. I first watched it when they had it on DVD and found myself a little bit addicted to it. Coupling has been dubbed the British version of Friends and it is easy to see why, a comedy about three women and three men which follows their different relationships. However Coupling is a comedy strictly for those of an older age than those for Friends. It follows Steve, Susan, Jane, Sally, Patrick and Geoff who have some wickedly ...

I'm still convinced that machines don't rule my life. However, during the second series of Coupling, I was happy to let it. After watching the first episode, I cleared Monday nights in my diary and ensured that I was always free come 10pm. It was worth it. Coupling has to be the finest thing to come out of the BBC. The script is incredibly well written, the characters well rounded and the humour infinitely more diverse than most. Every episode is a masterpiece that will have you howling with laughter and marvelling at the writers' insight into the unspoken issues of the twentysomething sexual struggle. The most hilarious part has to be ...