Coupling - The Complete Third Season

I have always liked british sitcoms but am careful in what I watch --- mostly I have enjoyed the older british sitcoms like are you being served, waiting for god, keeping up appearances, etc.i tried this because of the reviews --- and they are very much on the ball. even tho this sitcom is relatively new, the episodes are truly funny --- and it's hard to make me laugh...i kept getting the impression that i was watching a british version of the american series Friends --- all the group seem to be upper middle class, work in good jobs (or have no jobs but still survive nicely) --- and get into situations that are alarmingly like those in the american Friends --- which i never watched until it came out on dvd and then i thoroughly enjoyed them.if you like Friends, and enjoy british humor --- by all means purchase this set --- you won't be disappointed!!!

I just finished watching the last of the seven episodes here and I'm convinced that this is one of the great BBC series - and I mean great in the sense of Fawlty Towers and Are You Being Served.It's not the same, of course, in terms of plot or intended audience, but in terms of where it goes it shows inspiration you couldn't expect. Somehow the plot allows the characters to get into all kinds of twists and turns that are pure laugh-out-loud hilarious. In each series the characters grow a little, but they were so well-formed in the beginning that it's hardly needed.There are more examples of the dramatic technique of having the same scene happening as two different people see it, sometimes in split-screen, sometimes one version after another.But no matter how the subject's treated, you can't fail to laugh at the inability of people to deal with sex and relationships. Let's hope we'll be looking at the DVD of the fourth series a year from now.

There are four seasons of this show and I've watched all Four! I'm in the USA but I happen to love British humor. This series is sort of like the UK version of friends. I found it hilarious and I was looking to watch it again. But nobody streams it. So, I had to buy all four DVDs.If you're a fan of Brit comedy, and you like relationship hilarity, I think you're going to like all four seasons of these. I'm going to put this exact same review on the other three seasons so don't expect anything new there. Sorry about that. :-)

Coupling (the original BBC version, not the crappy American series that was immediately cancelled) is my all-time favorite sit-com. Every episode has genuine laugh-out-loud moments and some are truly hysterical (see season 2 for "The Melty Man" episode). The writing is smart, clever and funny.It's written by Steven Moffat, the TV genius who who is responsible for leading Doctor Who to great new heights over the last few years. The first 3 seasons of Coupling are great. The final 4th series saw the cast change and was disappointing but this show is a winner!

This show is very, very funny. The writing and characters are hilarious. I find myself laughing out loud a lot. So if you are looking for a fun time and to laugh out loud humor this is it. Some of them I was actually crying because I was laughing so hard. Much better and funnier than almost all situation comedies on TV now. I only wish there were more. Too bad we can't get good writing like this anymore.Highly recommended.

Have just finished all four seasons of one of the great British Comedies, the ruling on Season 3, Coupling has some classic great and creative comic television bits.Split takes up where Season 2 left. Susan and Steve have apparently split. Split screen is used to show how each turns to their friends and seeks the solace in The Temple of Women. Clearly and humorously not the same place from the lady’s and the men’s respective points of view.Jane the most clueless of the ladies finds herself falling for a man of the cloth. Meaning no shagging before marriage. Jeff has landed for himself a great girlfriend, suddenly has an offer of no strings attached sex. It will take the cast to be his real time cell phone connected village. Warning him that the most important reason to stay faithful is because it may be a trap .Four not my favorite of the season. Patrick and Sally have found each other, but her terms are that he stay the night.Five is a more madcap episode. Freckles seem to be a distraction. Particularly when only visible from a particular angle, available to lovers only point of view. Nether freckles can be a thing. Coupling is at its best slipping between plot lines.Episode six has many clever punchlines,. Many about Jeff accidentally seeing Steve’s girlfriend, in the loo. But nothing good, that is nothing below the rim..., and it is not Sally… its complicated. But more so than any prior episode this one has the real emotional content. . Extra credit if you know what is potpourri or why women cut their hair recreationally.The Season closes with a modern classic. Which of the girls is pregnant? And just why does Steve need his favorite pillow?

Love this sitcom! Wish there were more episodes in the series!!

First saw these episodes on BBC America On Demand and fell in love with the actors. It is like a British version of Friends. Super funny some of the situations and escapdes they get them selves into. Other than some sexual situations it is still fun for the whole family. I highly recomend these Disks set. Enjoy.

ALLES BESTENS

This is a great show. The writing is brilliant. The actors mesh wonderfully. Seasons 1 to 3 are some of the best comedy available. Richard Coyle left the show before season 4 was made and the series suffered because of the loss.

Episode titles: Split, Faithless, Unconditional Sex, Remember This, The Freckle The Key And The Couple Who Weren't, The Girl With One Heart, Perhaps Perhaps Perhaps.The Coupling gang are back for another hilarious helping of sexual exploration and social humiliation. The third series begins a heartbeat after the end of the last - with Steve (Jack Davenport) and Susan (Sarah Alexander) splitting up - and the entire first episode is conducted in split-screen, each half following one of the sundered couple as they both head to 'The Temple of Women', a beauty salon for Susan, a strip club for Steve...Episode titles: Split, Faithless, Unconditional Sex, Remember This, The Freckle The Key And The Couple Who Weren't, The Girl With One Heart, Perhaps Perhaps Perhaps.Extras include: Selective commentary with Jack Davenport and writer Steven Moffat. Interviews with cast and crew. Outtakes. Unfilmed script extracts.The third series of Coupling takes fans of the BBC's comedy of sex, manners and modern relationships into new realms of engaging surrealism, leaving those irritating comparisons with "Friends" trailing in its wake. The men are constantly in pursuit of a basic grasp of the "emotional things" that make women behave the way they do. The women analyse everything to death. But thanks to Steven Moffat`s scripts, tighter and quirkier than ever, these characters are living, breathing human beings rather than cynical ciphers for comedy stereotypes.The performances are as strong as you'd expect from an established team, with actors such as Jack Davenport (the ever-perplexed Steve), Ben Miles (unreconstructed chauvinist Patrick), Sarah Alexander (dryly intelligent Susan) and Kate Isitt (neurotic Sally) wearing their roles like second skins. But in the surreal stakes, it's Richard Coyle as Jeff, wondering aloud what happens to jelly after women have finished wrestling in it, and Gina Bellman as Jane, musing on the importance of a first snog in identifying what men like to eat, who really raise the laughter levels. All things considered, this is superior comedy for all thirtysomethings-genuine and putative.Episode 01: SplitVery interesting episode, which brings more focus on the story, instead of bringing one laughter after another, and I pretty much liked it. It even was genius of the producers to keep the split screen on until the end of the episode, which made it not only special for Coupling, but for a TV series in general. You practically saw here two episodes in one, and you don't get that all day. And the story was just perfect to bring the split screen into the episode.Other than that, a few moments were a bit ridiculous and to roll eyes with, especially when Jeff found his high school crush in the strip club again. The short talk they had was rather awkward tha funny. And I think the writers could have done more with the girls in the saloon - I didn't even watch to the right or lower side of the picture, because I didn't have one single second of interest in watching the girls making themselves beautiful.Anyway, good season opener... 8/10Episode 02: FaithlessHilarious episode in one part, ridiculous as always in another part. Again, I couldn't begin anything with Jane's plot, but I was finding myself laughing through Jeff's plot with Wilma (Emilia Fox). And since Jeff is not really a guy, who hits on women that strong, I am wondering about how the hell did he manage to have two women on his side now. With Julia (Lou Gish) still being his girlfriend, he goes out on a date with Wilma, who is even hotter, and he doesn't even know how to do all those things. How she talked about her boyfriend being in Australia was hilarious and how Jeff reacted to all of this was even more hilarious in many moments.And Jane? Well, she doesn't know anything about religions and God and still tries to hit on a Christian. Not really funny for me, but it is already known that I am having a problem with her. 7.5/10Episode 03: Unconditional SexThe episode was good, but I thought it would be more hilarious, since it only had Jeff and Wilma, and the writers didn't even focus on the other characters very much. There was one big problem I had with the episode: Jeff was way over the top in this episode, and this time even more than usual. The whole situation in Jeff's apartment with Wilma and the "dead" girl was mostly ridiculous and a moment to roll eyes with than seriously hilarious. Yeah, I found myself laughing, but I couldn't see this scene as very hilarious. It just was a bit too creepy for me.The little side plot with Susan and Steve was alright. It is nice that the writers bring a bit more story into their relationship, even though they are not in the center of the story. I just wished that the writers could have done this for all the characters and not just 50 percent of the cast. 7.5/10Sex life can be dangerous, especially for JeffEpisode 04: Remember ThisInteresting episode, and probably the truest episode so far this season, which goes a way of having a real relationship instead of sex-themed storylines. I liked the Patrick/Sally couple, and I would have wished that they would come together some time. And I liked how the writers didn't try to keep the episode much hilarious - sure, the whole flashback sequences with Patrick not realizing the ugly woman and Sally not remembering what really happened was funny as hell, but these scenes were more important for the character development than letting the audience laugh like hell.And I have to say that the moment in the video store was the best in this episode and probably the best scene in the season. It was nothing than just a little romantic storyline, with two characters wanting to have a relationship, but realizing that they failed in previous attempts. That was a pretty sweet moment. 8.5/10Episode 05: The Freckle, The Key And The Couple Who Weren'tHilarious episode. I wouldn't have thought that the third series would be funny, too, after the second lost some steam. But this time the writers didn't really know how to bring the two storylines into the episode, since both of them were happening at the same time. It looked a bit awkward, when the episode was jumping back and forth, having some new material for one story, until it jumps over to the other one. Maybe it would have been better to do it like the other episodes: First one story, then the other. I didn't even need "superhero" Jeff running into the pub with the mask on his face with him not realizing it. Jane's new date, the whole freckle thing and the Patrick/Sally sequel were already good enough for an own story, while /Jeff/Julia/Joe (Marc Bannerman) was another story, which could have stood on its own. And damn, Joe was a creepy guy, when he told nothing about what he's doing and when he was looking out of the window.The last moment was interesting: The writers should have done the Patrick/Sally story way earlier; a serialized "relationship or not" would have made the series in its second series way better. 8.5/10Episode 06: The Girl With One HeartIt was a good episode, but it showed again that the writers are writing a bit over the top, when it comes to Jeff. His behavior during the dinner was just too much and even for a guy like Jeff completely out of place. He couldn't even stop talking, though any guy would have realized that he is talking too much. But the rest of the dinner kinda reminded me of the dinner in "Inferno", and we even had a speech from Steve, defending the honor of men once again - but this time not really that funny, though it was completely the truth. Again.The little "lesbian" scene in the toilet was great, though I expected a bit more, when Jeff was suddenly in the toilet and saw Jennifer (Emma Pierson). Instead he found his honor and was out of the toilet pretty fast for his standards.Other than that Jane's story was of course ridiculous again (I really can't stand her in the series) and the writers didn't really do much with the jealousy story between Patrick and Sally. Only Sally was kinda jealous, but Patrick? 7.5/10Episode 07: Perhaps, Perhaps, PerhapsInteresting season finale, but unfortunately Jeff didn't get a proper send-off in his last episode. The writers rather gave him a beginning storyline with the moment he had with Jane. And especially at the ending, when James (Lloyd Owen) came back, while Jane was extremely happy not to be pregnant, which could mean that their relationship is over. I'm kinda sad that this was the last episode with Jeff - I will miss him.Other than that, Steve's masturbation speech to Susan was hilarious, as well as Jeff and Patrick revealing themselves, when Susan came. Or the laughing nurse. Sally's and Patrick's little story at the end as nice, and it looks like they finally found each other. The Spiderman dance couldn't be more awkward (for Steve) and I loved Sally's happy face. The pregnancy story throughout the episode was okay, but a bit ridiculous. The girls could have tested themselves right afterwards and not waiting for, like, years. 8/10

Coupling is so well written and acted it is head and shoulders above the competition. It is raunchy and sexy but without ever becoming puerile which is quite an achievement. It is a true adult sitcom that dissects relationships and sex in more ways than you could possibly imagine. You will learn a whole new vocabulary as you enjoy each episode.Everyone seems to have their own favourite character with Geoff seeming to stand out as the people's favourite. However, my personal favourite is Susan played by Sarah Alexander. The thing I love most about her is that she can say more with one facial expression than most other actors can with half a page of lines. Watch her expressions as they, alone, make the series worth watching.Do watch Coupling. Love and sex will never be the same again. It's only drawback is that after this all other sitcoms are a letdown.

Was soll man zu Coupling noch sagen? Daß es die beste Comedyserie aller Zeiten ist, steht für jeden, der er kennt, außer Frage. Man muß es sich allerdings auf englisch ansehen - in der Übersetzung geht an Witz viel zu viel verloren. Allein die (göttlichen) Weisheiten von Jeff lassen sich nie und nimmer übersetzen. Aber auch das Gag-Feuerwerk der anderen 5 Darsteller treibt einem vor Lachen die Tränen in die Augen. Ob jetzt Jeff einer Frau erzählt, er habe ein künstliches Bein oder Steve der Ansicht ist, Janes Psychiater sei ihre Geliebte, ich habe mich vor Lachen gebogen und zeitweise fast keine Luft mehr bekommen. Alle 3 Staffeln sind einfach genial und auf jeden Fall empfehlenswert, ich kann das Erscheinen einer 4 Staffel kaum noch erwarten.