Perry Kate Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

KnotMissPriceless Why so much hype?

Tetrady not as good as all the hype

Sharkflei Your blood may run cold, but you now find yourself pinioned to the story.

SnoopyStyle On their first date, the woman flashes her breast (the right one) to her date, her ex, her best friend, his ex and his best friend.Steve Taylor (Jack Davenport) is desperate to break up with the unflushable Jane Christie (Gina Bellman). His best friend is the strange and disturbing Jeff Murdock (Richard Coyle). Jeff works with Susan Walker (Sarah Alexander). Susan breaks up her casual relationship with the womanizing tripod Patrick Maitland (Ben Miles). Her best friend is the bitter, skin-elasticity-obsessed Sally Harper (Kate Isitt).This is Friends with more explicit sex talk and it is hilarious. Jeff is probably the funniest characters. There are some gut busting laughs. The interconnected story telling is used exceptional well. Basically, it has 3 series or 22 good episodes before Richard Coyle didn't return for the fourth series. At its best, this is a hilarious sex romp comedy.

Steviereno THIS show is absolutely the funniest show ever. The first three seasons, anyway.Some years ago I arrived at the conclusion that humor is at its core, simply absurdity - the absurdity of the unexpected punch line. You have a set-up - called a straight man in the past - and then you deliver a line out of left field, and then everyone blurts out (laughs) their reaction to the absurdity. And the more absurd, the funnier. If the unexpected isn't part of it - if any of it can be seen a mile away - then it won't have the impact. Well, this show has the most absurdity you will find anywhere, any when. The impact of the humor is just amazing. At any moment, a line out of nowhere. And topping the charts even within this Top O' The Charts ensemble, is Jeff. Bumbling Jeff. Absurd Jeff. Ohmygod Jeff. I am not sure they ever wrote a line for Jeff that wasn't off the wall, over- the-top absurd. If they did, I must have missed it while tending to my aching abdomen muscles and wiping the tears. You name it, and Jeff put his foot in his mouth over it - and the greatest thing about it is that he (the character) never even knows he's stepped in it. Well, actually, not quite true - but his efforts to extricated himself are even more absurd than his initial blurts. Jeff the Burter. Jeff the abysmally horrible self-extricator.Situational comedy is, then, setting up absurd situations and letting fly with all the silly absurdities that will arise. Well, welcome to the capitol of all absurd situation comedies. They don't miss a punch line - and often slip in 3 or 4 even before the one you might expect.So MANY times you the audience just want to let your head sag, as Jeff digs himself deeper and deeper.And yet, Jeff is not the star, though he steals the show so often. Steve bumbles his way out of the arms of one and into the arms of another, and does such a cuddly Jeff-imitation in the process that even the one left behind can't hate him. Susan, even while being the "straight man" for so many situations, manages her full share of "yowch" lines and physical humor. (Episode #1 has a doozy.) Jane is the dizziest woman since Gracie Allen, 50 years earlier - but 10,000 times hotter. And yet, as hot as Jane is, Susan is more so. Wow, one of the all-time beautiful blonds. Even if she is a bit "perky"...LOL Über oblivious, womanizer Patrick and his manhood are the object of many a scene (mostly unseen scenes, except in the imagination), and the audience is the beneficiary of the great writing that exposes them to his prowess. Cosmetologist Sally is the most normal of the ensemble, and yet her aging "vanity" (and its situations) still outdoes anything on "Sex and the City."A gem of gems, Coupling is to die for, to laugh out loud at, and to watch again every year or two, just to wallow in the absurdity of it all.If I could give it as many as 20 stars, I would. Alas! 10 is all they allow, so 10 it is...p.s. In Season 4, when Jeff no longer is on the show, the replacement character is simply 7 notches down from Richard Coyle and his characterizations. For that season, the show drops to about 6. What a loss Coyle was to the ensemble. . .

rob-colquhoun Firstly people will relate this to friends because both have six characters and three female, and that is where the similarity ends. Coupling being a British comedy is honest and funny no writing to be liked or to be politically correct. The characters and plots are about relationships and sex with some more sex and a little lesbian porn thrown in for good measure, i don't think it is possible for Americans to understand or appreciate this masterpiece of comedy, it would have to be dumbed down too much.The actors are all great and the scripts never fail to please, more coupling bbc, it is one of the few sit coms that are actually funny.

peterm1 I adore this show.I have just re-watched the entire 4 seasons on DVD and it reminded me why I loved this show so much the first time around. The characters are brilliantly crafted, the cast is gorgeous and fits these characters like old and comfortable shoes, but best of all the script is a gem. Full marks to the writer and producer. They just got it right again and again and again. I guess because they are married and in a sense this is "their" story. I was however slightly shocked to see that some (apparently USA based) viewers hated, hated hated it. From their comments it was clear that their complaints were either that it was "rude" (gotta love that mid-west bible belt) or they just did not "get it." Winston Churchill once said that the American and the British a two peoples divided by their common language. Nowhere is this seen more than in comedy. The Brits have a genius for irony. (Something that seems cultural as other cultures (Americans for example) do not always seem to get this type of humor and are left with a totally blank look on their faces when it comes up) And hence the Brits are good at the related area of comedy based on farce which uses irony in liberal dollops. And so to Coupling. Unlike many US comedies which seem to use set piece verbal gags, this is much more based on a mixture of farce and situational comedy (such as the juxtaposed split screen male and female views of the same situation.)The only slight criticism I would make is that the last season is not quite up to the standard of the others, IMHO, although it has its moments. This is largely due to the departure of the Geoff character. Although his replacement character is OK, he is a little less natural and more contrived and the writers are trying just a BIT too hard - no criticism of the guy playing him though, I definitely think its a script thing. I might add, one or two of the set piece comedy moments in the 4th series are a bit too contrived for my taste too. But on the whole the laughs are still there and the show comes to a satisfactory ending leaving watchers wanting more.I understand that the show was reworked in USA but taking account of my comments above I was not surprised to hear that it failed there. I suppose as many others have commented Coupling is like a risqué version of Friends (A very approximate approximation but good enough for the moment) and I could only imagine network free to air TV in the USA watering this down till it was insipid dull piece of the normal nonsense that that country's TV too often turns out. (Sorry Yanks but thumbs up to Sex and the City, Friends, Sienfeld which in their days were fine comedies, but these are far and away the exceptions - the Brits are less inhibited and just do comedy better IMHO!) Watch it with someone you love. The script pokes a very sharp pencil of fun at relationships, men, women, men and women and does so in a way that is often thoroughly recognizably to everyone who has been there. Speaking personally I have been married for a while now but can fully relate from my single days to many of these guys' dilemmas - after all although I got thru my single days without a visit from the "melty man" I am now married to a "hairy inquisitive sex octopus." Well done.