There Are No Walls in the House of Jearl - Mystery DVD #143

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November 18th, 2008
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Mystery DVD #143
Spaced: The Complete Series: Season 2 (Disc 2)

Season Two is not as head-meltingly ruletacular as Season One, mainly because it doesn't have the same startling novelty. A couple of things that were funny once are lame the third time. Also it gets a little over-the-top -- where Season One would have a great visual pun and a throwaway reference to Star Wars, and then move on to the next thing, Season Two does a whole subplot pastiche of Fight Club or One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. It's still totally worth watching though.

"Back" - Daisy returns from a vacation to discover that no one missed her. Sad panda. Brian and Twist are still seeing each other, and a happy Brian is an extremely disturbing and artistically unproductive Brian.
"Change" - Tim gets sacked over The Phantom Menace. Daisy gets kicked off welfare. Mike moves into Marsha's spare room. Marsha torments Brian until he's fit to paint again. It is awesome.
"Mettle" - Brian does an art installation. Tim and Mike try to get on Robot Wars. Daisy gets one of a series of crappy temp jobs.
"Help" - Dark Star Comics wants to see Tim's portfolio. Tyres returns. There is a lot of running about.
"Gone" - A strange yet sort of awesome pub crawl. Contains two ridiculous, fantastic fight scenes. Daisy subverts the male psyche. Totally choice.
"Dissolution" - Daisy's Birthday. A series of misadventures. Everyone in the house hates one another.
"Leaves" - Marsha puts the house up for sale. A series of spectacular apologies.

I'm not doing the individual episodes any justice - it's just really hard to get at the zillion little things happening in every scene. It's better than I'm making it sound! except maybe the last two. Bit serious.

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From:[info]outsidetheparty
Date:November 19th, 2008 03:26 pm (UTC)
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The fight scenes in Gone, posted on YouTube, are what convinced me I needed to own the series. I'm amazed Spaced isn't more famous than it is; it's full of awesome. It's a tiny bit like Arrested Development except the people are nice to each other instead of appalling.
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From:[info]sargent
Date:November 19th, 2008 04:12 pm (UTC)
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Ditto the pretend gun fight scenes selling me on the series.
From:[info]jdyer
Date:November 23rd, 2008 01:36 am (UTC)
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Now there is a wait for Spaced on the Netflix queue. And it's ALL YOUR FAULT.
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