Spaced
1999
The sitcom SPACED features Tim and Daisy (Simon Pegg and Jessica Stevenson), two quirky young adults who pose as a professional couple in order to rent a flat in Tufnell Park, London. Tim is an assistant manager of a comic book store and an aspiring comic book artist while Daisy is an unemployed writer-journalist. The .. Read more
| Starring | Jessica Stevenson, Simon Pegg, Julia Deakin |
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| Director | Edgar Wright |
| Genres | Comedy |
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36 out of 37 people found this review helpful
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This is one of the best sitcoms I have ever come across! In fact it is the best. The only bad thing about it is that there are only two series.
Spaced can be watched and re-watched and you will still not get bored. The script, directing, and production is wonderfully slick. Quite surreal at times but not overly ridiculous, fantastic collection of characters. Suitable for most ages, and will appeal to most types of humour. -
15 out of 15 people found this review helpful
Intelligent, laugh out loud humour mixed with good comedy scripting and storylines that work
Spaced is packed with humorous movie references, clever witticisms, sarcasm, pathos, clever twists that you don't see coming, hilarious slapstic moments, inteligent writing and pretty much every comedy trick in the book. For Simon Pegg, Jesicca Stephenson and Nick Frost, this is where it all began! It is where Shaun began to shoot the Dead and where the Fuzz became Hot.
It is the sort of humour you come back to after a first showing and still laugh out loud at. In fact, I am on my fifth viewing in two years (which is a lot for me - I usually watch a film/series twice at most).
Spaced is by far the funniest thing that has come out of the British comedy stable for an exhorbitantly long time. I always show this to people who haven't seen it yet and gain perverse satisfaction that they like it as well.
In much the same way, I urge you to see this (and stick it through to at least the 4th episode as the humour becomes funnier as the series matures). Watching both Spaced 1 and 2 also makes a second viewing more pleasurable as you begin to notice things that you missed the first time around and thus gain more pleasure from the 2nd viewing.
Any series that can make a dog, bamboo and lightning a hilarious cliffhanger ending has my vote on any day of the week! -
12 out of 13 people found this review helpful
Genius
I urge all comedy enthusiasts to watch Spaced. Comedy just does not get much better than this. It is, without question, essential viewing.
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2 out of 3 people found this review helpful
THE definative sitcom
If you have watched and enjoyed Shawn of the Dead, then you must watch Spaced, Simon Pegg and Jessica Stephenson's predecessing comedy gold.
Full of clever film and TV in-jokes and great characters who I think we can secretly all relate to, this has to be my favourite sitcom ever. -
4 out of 5 people found this review helpful
AWESOME
Very funny, Simon Pegg is a genius. Great refernces to other movies.
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36 out of 37 people found this review helpful
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This is one of the best sitcoms I have ever come across! In fact it is the best. The only bad thing about it is that there are only two series.
Spaced can be watched and re-watched and you will still not get bored. The script, directing, and production is wonderfully slick. Quite surreal at times but not overly ridiculous, fantastic collection of characters. Suitable for most ages, and will appeal to most types of humour. -
15 out of 15 people found this review helpful
Intelligent, laugh out loud humour mixed with good comedy scripting and storylines that work
Spaced is packed with humorous movie references, clever witticisms, sarcasm, pathos, clever twists that you don't see coming, hilarious slapstic moments, inteligent writing and pretty much every comedy trick in the book. For Simon Pegg, Jesicca Stephenson and Nick Frost, this is where it all began! It is where Shaun began to shoot the Dead and where the Fuzz became Hot.
It is the sort of humour you come back to after a first showing and still laugh out loud at. In fact, I am on my fifth viewing in two years (which is a lot for me - I usually watch a film/series twice at most).
Spaced is by far the funniest thing that has come out of the British comedy stable for an exhorbitantly long time. I always show this to people who haven't seen it yet and gain perverse satisfaction that they like it as well.
In much the same way, I urge you to see this (and stick it through to at least the 4th episode as the humour becomes funnier as the series matures). Watching both Spaced 1 and 2 also makes a second viewing more pleasurable as you begin to notice things that you missed the first time around and thus gain more pleasure from the 2nd viewing.
Any series that can make a dog, bamboo and lightning a hilarious cliffhanger ending has my vote on any day of the week! -
12 out of 13 people found this review helpful
Genius
I urge all comedy enthusiasts to watch Spaced. Comedy just does not get much better than this. It is, without question, essential viewing.
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10 out of 10 people found this review helpful
Good companion documentary
Myself and my friends are huge fans of the series, and are compulsive quoters. Being a Spaced expert/nerd, I was prepared for an airy fairy documentary that barely scratched the surface of a programme which is such an essential element of my pop culture conscious. I wasn't expecting such detailed analysis of the intricacies of both series, such a level of cast/crew participation and such original presentation.
The documentary is essential viewing for hardcore Spaced fans. It features the emminantly likable cast/crew, a number of fans and some questionable B-celebs (some of whom I'd have prefered not to have to hear from). It even features a small vision of Tim & Daisys' futures... something that will no doubt have fans misty eyed in nostalgia.
A great treatment and perfect final word on one of Britain's best loved comedies. -
10 out of 13 people found this review helpful
Rubbish!
Not Funny....Boring...need I go on? (I actually wrote a full review on here, went to check what a 'spoiler' was then went back to this page and the review I had written had gone....! This, therefore is a summary of that original...which was far longer, inciteful and helpful to those who are thinking of renting this...!)
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8 out of 9 people found this review helpful
In your late twenties? You'll love this!
Littered with Pop culture references and unashamedly geeky. Having spent a fair bit of time dossing around and sharing flats with a variety of weird and wonderful people, I found Spaced pretty easy to relate to.
It perfectly portrays the lives of people who are fast approaching 30 but still haven't found a direction in life.
If you've seen Shaun of the Dead and liked it, you've really got to see this. -
7 out of 10 people found this review helpful
Brilliant
Hilarious portrait of 20/30-something life in the UK.
Enjoyable film and other pop culture references; clever script; wonderful fantasy sequences.
Respect due to Jessica Stevenson, Simon Pegg and everyone else involved in the making of Spaced. -
7 out of 10 people found this review helpful
A scary reflection of my life
A perfect reflection of life flat-sharing in London. I think what touched a nerve, and what touched my funny-bone so completely about this series of Spaced is that they seemed so much like me and my friends, as scary as that may sound.
This won't be your kind of comedy if you're after some gut-clutching humour. On the other hand if you like your 'observations on life', if you like to laugh at the absurd and at yourself, then this is a must. -
6 out of 6 people found this review helpful
Why oh why has no one heared of Spaced?
Spaced has to be up there with my favourite Sit-Coms: Blackadder, Red Dwarf, The Simpsons etc etc.
But unlike the others listed above very few but the most cult immersed individuals know Spaced. I have yet to meet a person who, having seen Spaced doesn't, at the very least like Spaced. Many who know it love Spaced and in the style of Monty Python fans can recite at least a few of their favourite lines.
Set in North London, Daisy and Tim have recently been made homeless and as such decide to pretend to be a couple in order to attain a great flat in Chalk Farm (near Camden.) Other people in their building include their Landlord Marsha who's (pubescent daughter despite viewers never seeing is rather vocal on why she hates her mother) and Brian (a modern artist who has a “something going on” with Marsha).
This may make for a rather mundane Sit-Com synopsis but the Cult Comic, Movie, TV, Game etc etc. references and British blueprint strange comedy is just.... great!
Also the inspiration for Shaun of the Dead… the Performance Art Episode in particular!
Just trust me. please Please PLEASE! Rent, Enjoy, Recommend! You really will love it! -
6 out of 8 people found this review helpful
Enjoyable and unique sit-com that began a number of comedy careers!
'Spaced' is perhaps the ultimate reference for in-jokes. It is often quoted and being a fan brings something of cult status to anyone who proclaims themselves as such. I can certainly see why it was so popular and it seems to have stood the test of time, because I came to it fresh and found nothing that dated it in any way. The acting is very good, there are some really fine turns from Pegg, Stevenson and, indeeed, all the supporting cast, who have all gone on to fame in their own rights. The direction though, is inspired. Edgar Wright tries every trick in the book, and some he apparently invented, to give 'Spaced' its defining wacky and surreal feel. The homages to movies and other comedies are so numerous you need to watch it over and over to even hope to pick most of them out. Even the pictures on the walls pay homage to various films and are the source of in-jokes. Why then do I not give it five stars? Well, as much as I like it, and I will be buying the special edition released in July 2006 so I really do, it did not make me laugh all the way through. There are lags in the humour, as the surreal direction and strangeness take over and as wacky as this is, the point of a comedy sit-com is to make you laugh and when it is not doing that, no matter how weird and wacky it is, it is not living up to its remit. I appreciate that this is due to its work in progress status, for all concerned, we are dealing with a genre defining comedy here and I accept there will be misses as the hit is honed to perfection, but there are still misses where there is no comedy and only strangeness. 'Spaced' certainly deserves its cult status though and I forgive it the experimental weirdness, because it is a work of genius in its own right that progressed to the excellence of 'Shaun of the Dead'. I cannot wait to see the second series of 'Spaced' and I wholeheartedly recommend this first series.
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