Spaced Out!
Saturday, August 13
Last week I was introduced to a great show called Spaced. It's a British television show by the same crew who were invovled with Shaun of the Dead, just done a few years earlier. But you can see the beginnings of 'Shaun' in 'Spaced'.
This show is truly a fanboy/girls heaven. Wonderfully laced with tons of pop culture references. Television, movies, comics and videogames. It's truly awesome. The series follows the continuing voyages of confused twenty-somethings, Daisy (Jessica Stevenson) and Tim (Simon Pegg) as they attempt to navigate life at a time when they should be getting serious but somehow are not. The beginning plot sounds like something out of Three's Company. They must convince their landlord that they are a couple to rent their London flat. Other than that, hilarity ensues.
You like Ewok sing-a-longs? How about techno remixes of the A-Team theme? An argument played out like a match of Tekken? Hell, I laughed at a gag about Murder She Wrote. It's well written and everything from the wacked out acting to camera angles will make you laugh. If you liked Shaun of the Dead a lot, then this is what started it, and I'm glad to have seen it at all, considering it hasn't been shown in the States. Get a copy of this and watch it.
