Posts Tagged comedy

Black Books

- Why can’t they leave me alone? I mean, what do they want from me? – They want to buy books! – Yeah but why me? Why do they come to me? – Well, because you sell books. – Yeah, I know… but… Bernard is a mean, unpleasant, cynical and egoistic bastard who’s running the [...]

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Spaced

- You’re scared of mice and spiders, but oh so much greater is your fear that one day the two species will cross-breed to an all-powerful race of mice-spiders, who will immobilize human beings in giant webs in order to steal cheese. – I never said that!! – Yeah, but it’d be good though, wouldn’t [...]

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Coupling

After the breakup with Jane Steve falls in love with Susan. This also shakes up the relations between the close friends of Steve and Susan. Anyway the six friends go through turbulent times together. Coupling (IMDb, Wikipedia) is a hilarious sitcom about relations-ships,  sex and bottoms. Each episode follows the group of the six main [...]

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Funland

Lola and Dudley, a prude and strange couple, is on the way to Blackpool to spend some days there. Unfortunately they’ve booked a room in a dirty, awful small hotel. Carter is on the way to Blackpool to find the murderer of his mom. Shortly before her tragic death she told Carter the last word, [...]

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Love Soup

“What if that woman can read my mind….Oh god that’s a terrifying thought, you’re turning into a mad person. But what if she can?….Hello?…” Love Soup (IMDb, Wikipedia) follows the life of Alice and Gil. Both are desperate to find the perfect partner. Both aren’t successful and stumble from one disappointment to the next. BBC’s [...]

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Hustle

- Danny: …..25’000£! – Mickey: Hmm, so how is it going, Danny? – Danny: What? – Mickey: The score. How do you think it’s going on a scale of say one to ten? – Danny: Well I thought it’s going ok. – Mickey: So what? Nine maybe? – Danny: Nine-ish? … no? – Mickey: Ask [...]

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Riget I & II (The Kingdom)

Lars von Triers (Dogville, Dancer in the Dark) Riget (Wikipedia, IMDb Riget I, IMDb Riget II) is a wild mix of mystery, hospital-drama, comedy and horror elements. The show follows the staff and patients of the “Kingdom”-hospital in Copenhagen. Strange phenomena occur and supernatural things take over the hospital. The rational doctors don’t believe in [...]

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Pushing Daisies

Pushing Daisies (IMDb/Wikipedia) is dramedy TV-series, created by Bryan Fuller (Dead Like Me / Wonderfalls). It has an unique “fairytale”-flavor, everything is colorful, bright and an looks like a painting. The narrator is telling the story of the “Pie-Maker” who has a special gift, to bring people back to life. Originally the idea of a [...]

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Ijon Tichy: Raumpilot

Ijon Tichy: Raumpilot (IMDb / Wikipedia) is a small, German TV-series with 15-minutes episodes. It tells the adventures of an astronaut and his “analoge Halluzinelle”, which is basically an holographic board-computer. What’s really unique about the show is it’s style. The rocket looks like a retro-coffee-machine, inside it is a old-fashioned apartment filled with retro-stuff, [...]

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Wonderfalls

Wonderfalls (IMDb/Wikipedia) is one of the best TV-dramedy I’ve ever seen (pure opposite of the iTeam). It hilarious funny, its has intelligent plots, it has likeable characters and its has different episode-styles like  “non-linear crime and mystery”, “psycho thriller” and “romantic comedy”. Its near to perfection and it just genius . Its created by Todd [...]

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