Coupling - The Complete Third Season
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Actor: Jack Davenport, Sarah AlexanderBrand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Anamorphic, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 210 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-06-01
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: BBC Worldwide
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DVD Review: The surprise of Series 3 is the sympathetic Sally Harper
Summary: 5 Stars
There are only seven episodes for the third series of "Coupling," which is a disappointment, and the focus actually shifts from Steve (Jack Davenport) and Susan (Sarah Alexander) to Sally (Kate Isitt) and Patrick (Ben Miles), which is actually pretty interesting. Meanwhile Jeff (Richard Coyle) tries to make the worst of his relationship with Julia (Lou Gish) and Jane (Gina Bellman) starts dating the celibate James (Lloyd Owen) from the radio station.
Far and away the two best episodes of the third series are the first one and the last one. As we remember from the previous series, Steve had finally proposed to Sally while she was pretending to be married to Patrick, but then there was that unfortunately incident with the girls all pretending to be Giselle and Steve answering the phone in an Australian accent for Bruce's Bar & Grill because he has swapped phone numbers with a girl at the bar. So the one couple on "Coupling" that are actually coupled start off uncoupled in "Split." The effective gimmick here is when the split occurs we see it literally on the screen as the picture "tears" in two. We then have one camera following Steve and one with Susan for the rest of the episode. The screen is split various ways (left and right, top and bottom, big and small), which works well in the sequence where both the guys and the gals deal with the problem of checking to see who made the last call to Susan's phone.
We end up covering familiar ground with Jeff in "Faithless" and "Unconditional Sex" as Julia is out of town and one of the women at work Wilma Lettings (Emilia Fox), takes a fancy to Jeff. In a twist on "Cyrano de Bergerac," Jeff's conversation with Wilma at the bar is being listened to and commented on by the rest of the group courtesy of the headset he is wearing. I have to admit, it is not as funny to watch Jeff suffer when he is actually in what most people would consider a relationship. That is why "The Freckle, the Key and the Couple Who Weren't" where Jeff accidentally swallows something he needs to get back in a hurry is a lot funnier.
Remember This" gets our focus on the relationship between Sally and Patrick when he rushes over in the middle of the night to her flat thinking that she had phoned him. It turns out that she did not, but both of them end up wondering if maybe there is something worth pursuing between them. I liked how Sally became more human in series two and in series three she becomes a truly sympathetic figure. In "The Girl with One Heart" she is so jealous of Patrick's date Jennifer (Emma Pierson) at a group dinner that she accidentally comes on to the woman, who actually responds. Things are starting to get interesting by the end of this one.
What surprised me most about the finale, "Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps" is that the episode got me to tear up twice, both times because of Isitt's performance as Sally. The title, in addition to being lifted from the chorus of the show's title song, is wonderfully appropriate because it finds the girls all taking a pregnancy test. One of the sticks turns blue, but the sticks got mixed up so that which one of them is pregnant is not revealed until the final moment of the episode (although it will be obvious to most viewers who it has to be). But the idea that Sally could have one emotional moment, that turns out to be a set up for one of the biggest laughs of the series, and then come up with an even more emotional moment, wonderfully set up by Jane, is even more astounding. I can think of few moments in any sitcom on either side of the pond that matches the heart rending pathos of Sally's declaration: "I am Sally Harper. There is nothing in this world so good that I cannot screw up." I was thinking 4.5 stars for this one, and for what she does in the final two scenes of the final episode, I round up.
When I started watching "Coupling: The Complete Third Season" (their "series" is our "season"), I was thinking that although Jeff makes me laugh out loud the most that Susan was my favorite, not only because of Sarah Alexander's nice big eyes but because she was the only really sane member of the group. Jeff and Jane are definitely living in another universe with extensive visiting privileges, while Steve and Patrick are polar opposites in terms of male confidence. But Sally Harper becomes human in this third series and that is what I will remember the most. Fortunately the fourth series will be out soon and then I might have to consider getting one of those new fangled DVD players that can handle the encoding for any region so I can get to series five instead of having to wait. I have, for the time being, given up on American situation comedies (I watch "Gilmore Girls," "The O.C." and "Desperate Housewives" for my weekly requirement of laughs), and if it was not for "Coupling" and "Sex in the City" on DVD I would be avoiding half-hour show entirely.
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