[PSW] Impression

TV Programme: Peep Show
Season: 6
Episode: 5
Date I watched this episode: 17/10/2009
Time since I last watched this programme: 7 days.

Pretty much this entire episode was focussed on Mark and Jeremy's house party. This is not an uncommon thing to do - e.g. [GRW] "Housewarming Party". It wasn't entirely a bad thing as it did throw the characters into different situations and made for a fairly believable house party. But it also made the ep quite restrictive.

Mark actually threw a pretty good party, and things didn't go completely wrong for him at the end like usual, although they did go fairly wrong. He just can't see the situation with Dobby for what it is, as with all women really. His plan of chemical castration for Gerard did kind of backfire on him and he was left pretty much where he started.

Mark did go pretty much over the edge in the episode, resorting to drugs for pretty much the first time ever, getting drunk and rambling on to Suze, and above all actually having a good time. I think it's a pre-cursor to the boring life he's going to have once he is a father. And those two still haven't made a deal about that have they?

Jeremy on the other hand used the opportunity to enact a battle plan with Elena, which to be honest became the main story of the episode, though it wasn't what the party had been "designed for". Elena is slipping away from him, although I don't think we've seen the last of that. Elena feels like a season-long character, and so probably next week's season finale will give a bit more closure.

The number of relatively minor roles who returned from this episode made me wonder if I'd missed something and this was a landmark episode. six times five plus five... The 35th episode of the programme, hardly a major landmark. Still, we had Mark's sister returning along with Gerard for the first time this season, and also saw Big Suze, Hans, Dobby, Sophie, Sophie's dad, Elena, Gail and Jeff. Quite a big cast compared to what we normally get.

The episode wasn't as hilarious as the previous one, but it was worth watching. Soon this programme will be done for another year and we'll have a chance to reflect on this season's serious nature and find out what Jeremy is going to do next. The episode's title is "Shunned", so probably someone is going to be not too happy.