Spaced: The Complete Series
by Edgar Wright
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Actor: Jessica Hynes, Julia Deakin, Katy Carmichael, Nick Frost, Simon PeggDirector: Edgar Wright
Brand: Warner Brothers
Writer: Jessica Hynes
Writer: Simon Pegg
Producer: Gareth Edwards
Producer: Humphrey Barclay
Producer: Karen Beever
Producer: Lisa Clark
Producer: Nira Park
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled)
Format: Box set, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.77:1
Running Time: 350 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-07-22
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: BBC Warner
DVD Reviews of Spaced: The Complete Series
DVD Review: WHY ONLY TWO SEASONS?!?!?!?
Summary: 5 Stars
One of my favorite comedies ever. If you like Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, you really have to have this!
I mean it, you have to have it.
DVD Review: Bought As A Present
Summary: 4 Stars
Not something I would purchase for myself, but my daughter-in-law wanted it so I ordered the set thru Amazon. I was worried shipping time would put it on my porch after Christmas because I ordered it only 8 days before the holidays. No problems. I received the set after only 3 days. Kudos to Amazon. My daughter-in-law was happy, so I was too!DVD Review: Brillance overlooked
Summary: 5 Stars
Here is a show I'd only heard rumors about, but missed entirely (who got BBC in 1997, not me!) I got it from Netflix, and ordered it from Amazon as a keeper before I was done with the first disc, for I knew it was also to be foisted on friends.DVD Review: Familiar, and Funny
Summary: 4 Stars
Like many Americans, I became interested in "Spaced" after loving "Shaun of the Dead." The series is well worth the money, but because so many of the jokes in this BBC series were ripped for use in the zom-com, sometimes it falls flat where it should soar. Wish the series had run longer, but I'll take what I can get.DVD Review: If you're an American who enjoyed and UNDERSTOOD Shaun of the Dead then . . .
Summary: 4 Stars
You'll love this show. All the genius that went into Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead started in this show. Make no qualms about it, there is a certain prerequisite to enjoying this show and I think it's a bit too much to ask for the viewer to have all of those present. Luckily they've included a feature that lists the various "homages" in the show to things like: music, videogames, movies, pop culture, books, and to a certain extent things only British people would understand (which I had to use google to find out myself).
I saw this complete series on bootleg 2 years ago and fell in love it, this set is very polished with nice features (the aforementioned "homage"" subtitles) and witty, nerdy comedy.
Description of Spaced: The Complete Series
Spaced revolves around two idle twentysomething flatmates - immature skateboarding would-be comic artist Tim (Simon Pegg) and moody responsibility-shy Daisy (Jessica Stevenson) and their self-induced lack of success in employment relationships and life in general. Together with their oddball assortment of friends and neighbors Marsha Brian Mike and Twist they exist in a world perched precariously on the edge of normality.System Requirements:Running Time: 343 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre:?TELEVISION/BBC Rating:?NR UPC:?883929019748 Manufacturer No:?1000038748It 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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