Just wondering after reading this article in the NY Post. It’s supposed to be a ‘replacement’ for Friends which is hit or miss IMO. They say
so I guess that means we’ll have the same show with different actors. Is this anything to get excited about?
Actually, the UK version really -is- witty and well written (my friends say, “It’s like ‘Friends’, but funny!”), but it’s also a bit more blatantly sexual. My thought? They’re going to grab it, Americanize it, and it’ll turn out to pretty much be crap. My advice? Get BBC america or a friend who can video tape it for you and watch the episodes. Start with season one and work your way through. They’re on season 3 now, and it’s really entertaining.
Oh, I thought it was awful—they show it on a local Long Island station, and I saw two episodes. All I could take.
Leering, sex-crazed dialogue with all the wit of Three’s Company; a largely talentless cast given to bug-eyed double-takes, “plot twists” you can see coming three miles off . . . Dreadful show.
Er, when I say ‘it’, I mean the original, not the americanized version. D’oh!
The British episodes are very good, IMHO.
"I’ve got the key to paradise…
…but I’ve got too many legs!"
I enjoy the British version. You can see it on public television in Georgia.
I despise the British version. The Welsh character (the dumb one) is slightly funny, but unless you want to hear old jokes repeated by bad actors then I suggest you give it a miss
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Wait.
I thought “Coupling” was the UK version of “Friends.”
Now there will be a US version of “Coupling”?
I love the show!
I have seen commercials for the American version, and perhaps it is because I have seen the original that I think the Yank version will suck. The girl who plays Jane, at least, is nothing at all like Jane. I don’t know why they didn’t just buy the real thing and show it, (minus a few words you can’t say on network tv.)
As an aside, does anyone else have the season 1 dvd? The sound does not sync with the picture. What’s up with that?