| Spaced: The Complete Series | 
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Studio: BBC Warner
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  35 reviews
Sales Rank: 111
Format: Box Set, Color, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Subtitled), English (Original Language)
Number Of Items: 3
Running Time: 350
Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.5 x 1
UPC: 883929019748
EAN: 0883929019748
ASIN: B0019MFY3Q
Theatrical Release Date: 2008
Release Date: July 22, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
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It only takes one episode to become very protective of this 1999 British Comedy Award-winning series that put comedy soul mates Simon Pegg and Jessica Stevenson (now Hynes), as well as Nick Frost, and director Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz) on the map. One can only hope a threatened American version is never produced. This is one of those brilliant, off-center, lightning-in-a-bottle creations that gets you so jazzed, you want to turn all your friends on to it. Spaced (actually, Friends might have been a better title; too bad it was taken) stars Pegg and Stevenson as strangers Tim and Daisy, "amiable 20-somethings" who pose as a "professional couple" to rent an apartment. He is a recently-dumped aspiring comic book artist. She is an easily distracted writer. As the series unfolds, their apartment becomes an "island of calm in the ocean of life" as Tim and Daisy form a kind of 21st century family with their similarly misfit friends, including soused landlord Marsha (Julia Deakin), who lives with her teenager daughter (aka "the devil in a A cup," who is heard, but never quite seen), Brian (Mark Heap), an artist who deals in anger, fear, and aggression, Simon's best friend Mark (Frost), a militaristic gun nut, and Daisy's best friend, Twist (Katy Carmichael), a fashion poseur (in the series' penultimate episode, look for a pre-Office Ricky Gervais). Spaced is not so much interested in Tim and Daisy's charade as it is in cramming each episode with pop culture references and obscure in-jokes, and brilliantly realized film and TV homages, ranging from Woody Allen's Manhattan to Pulp Fiction and The Empire Strikes Back (Star Wars, especially, looms large in Tim's slacker universe). As with Arrested Development, Spaced benefits from repeat viewings to catch missed bits of business and gags that fly by at a Simpsons-esque rate. This Complete Series set is everything Spaced's fervent following would demand. Each episode is complemented by the original commentaries as well as newly-recorded gabfests that also feature American friends of the show, including Kevin Smith, Patton Oswalt, Quentin Taratinto, Matt Stone, Diablo Cody, and Bill Hader. There are deleted scenes and outtakes, and, best of all, an hour-long 2007 Q&A with Wright and the cast, in which Pegg allows that, had there been a third series (and we can still dream), it would have provided viewers hoping that Tim and Daisy would ultimately get together with "a moment to make every hair of your body stand on end." You will see such a moment if you "skip to the end" of the essential near two-hour series retrospective. --Donald Liebenson
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How it could be better. August 21, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
It could have been better. If they released season two also. Why not just make one box set. Season one and two. Its not like season two isnt out. then you would have a matching complete set. everyone is going to buy season two anyway so that the deal?
 Pop Culture Mash-Up, BritCom Style August 19, 2008
Okay, first things first: If you loved Simon Pegg's movies SEAN OF THE DEAD and HOT FUZZ, then you'll enjoy SPACED. If not - then it's still an intriguingly funny, if flawed, look at young adults forming families of choice as opposed to families of birth while trying to make it in the arts. Be advised, though - it's very much what the British call a "post-watershed" show (that means they drop the F-bomb repeatedly, openly drink and use drugs socially, and engage in casual sex), so it's not for anyone under 16.
Pegg plays Tim, an aspiring comic book artist who's just broken up w/his live-in girlfriend and needs to find a place to live. Jessica Hynes (here under her maiden name "Jessica Stevenson") plays Daisy, an equally-aspiring journalist desperate to get out of her squatter's flop. They meet, they agree to pretend to be a couple in order to rent a reasonably-priced apartment for an eccentric landlady...and this is where the series DOESN'T go where you'd expect it to. Tim and Daisy, though they become close friends, NEVER become lovers, nor is there any hint they ever will, as the series becomes about their (often surreal) interactions with their friends and neighbors, and the friends' and neighbors' interactions with each other.
But enough of the regular sitcommy stuff - what about the wacky pop culture references? Oh, Pegg and Stevenson bring it there - in spades! Seems nobody can have a conversation with, or about, each other without referencing some movie, comic, television show or videogame - and the series mercilessly rips into horror movies, zombie films, SAY ANYTHING, performance art, porn, cop shows, war epics....
Again, if you're a Simon Pegg fan you'll love it - if not, watch it for how series writers Pegg and Hynes bring out the often-artless attempts of self-absorbed creative people to reach out to one another in love and friendship.
i don't know how it could be any better August 17, 2008
all i can say is that i hope they make more, like they've always talked about. i have never seen a 'sitcom' with more cinematic qualities, or as many moments that make you laugh from out of left field, or as 'real' interactions between characters. quit simply one of the top 5 comedy shows of all-time.
Amazing show! August 16, 2008
Just finished watching the whole series, and it is honestly one of the best that I have seen. I love the characters and the plot, it is just amazing. The commentaries are also very good, particularly the one with Kevin Smith.
Hot Fuzz of the Dead Fatboy in an apartment August 12, 2008
Can't say much more than the rest of the reviewers but the irreverant, quick and very likable cast make for entertainment that just appeals to the weary American brain that's been zombified by the regulated crap and remakes that we get subjected to.
I pray to Mohamma-buddha-christ that Fox/NBC/ABC doesn't get the idea to try and remake this show for the USA in hopes of another "Office". Now if only the Canadians could leak more Corner Gas across the border... ...
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