Coupling - The Complete Fourth Season
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Actor: Ben Miles, Gina Bellman, Jack Davenport, Kate Isitt, Sarah AlexanderBrand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0; English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 180 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-01-25
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Model: E2101
Studio: BBC Worldwide
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- London's sexiest sextet are back for a fourth season of farce! Susan and Steve are now pregnant (well, mostly Susan), Patrick and Sally are discussing commitment (well, mostly Sally), and there's this new guy called Oliver with his eye on Jane. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY Rating: NR Age: 794051210128 UPC: 794051210128 Manufacturer No: E2101
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DVD Review: What? Jeff is gone and we only get six episodes? Oh oh...
Summary: 4 Stars
If you were disappointed when you learned there were only two discs for Series Four of "Coupling," then the news that there are only episodes on the first of those two discs is going to be downright depressing. Given the results I have seen to date I appreciate the British idea of avoiding having a set number of episodes in any given series (read "season" on this side of the Pond) because that increases the quality of what we see a lot more than the American model, which is driven towards the goal of having one hundred episodes that usually translate into profitable syndication. But only six episodes to get us through Steve trying to deal with Susan's pregnancy, Sally and Patrick's serious relationship, and Jane's close encounters with Oliver, the new guy, fans have to feel Series 4 comes up short (and that is before we ever come to terms with that new guy replacing Jeff).
This series takes us from "Nine and a Half Minutes" to "Nine and a Half Months," and since the previous series ended with Susan (Sarah Alexander) announcing she is pregnant is not surprising that this one ends with the birth of the baby. We have seen writer Steven Moffat play with time and space before (e.g., "The Girl With Two Breasts" from Series 1 and "Split" from the start of Series 2), and he continues along those lines in these two episodes. "Nine and a Half Minutes" gives us the same time frame from the perspective of each couple, while "Nine and a Half Months" finds Steve (Jack Davenport) unstuck in time (and having his weirdest dreams ever) as Susan goes into labor.
With Susan being pregnant her relationship with Steve is pretty much reduced to his complete and total fear over the miracle of birth. Dragging him to antenatal classes ("Circus of the Epidurals") is the disaster you would imagine. But overall the best moments for Series 4 come from watching Sally (Kate Isitt) and Patrick (Ben Miles) become closer. The sticking point becomes whether or not Patrick has slept with Jane (Gina Bellman), an issue raised by a late night phone call that does not end until all six characters are on the line ("Night Lines") and not resolved until the final episode, when Sally actually gets into the infamous cupboard of Patrick's love and finds a box she should not open. In between we get the creative allegory of a knight playing a game of chess with a princess in "Bed Time."
I agree that the attempt to work Oliver (Richard Mylan) into the mix is problematic. Part of the trouble is how Oliver comes across too much like a poorer version of Jeff (Richard Coyle), who is present in spirit and a bit more (Samantha Spiro) for a couple of episodes. Granted, changing the peculiar mix of characters in this sextet is risky, but they should have come up with more when they came up with Oliver. The other factor here is pairing up Oliver with Jane, which works a bit better because it finally allows her to be the confident one in the relationship, as amply seen in "The Naked Living Room." This certainly suggests some ways of rethinking the Oliver character, but it is obviously a bit too late for that. Like everything else on "Coupling," the story of Oliver and Jane is to be continued.
However, I have to think we are getting close to the end of the road for "Coupling." This is not because baby Joshua has arrived, but rather because everybody is now paired up on the show ("Friends" stopped before things got that far). No wonder there were only six episodes in Series 4: once Jane and Oliver hook up nobody is out looking for sex any more. In fact, there is every possibility that "Coupling" will no longer be about sex but will actually be spending more time on the subject of love, at which point we should probably turn out the lights because the party will be over.
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