Better be as good as the english verison
I love coupling! I just hope this new one can live up to its standards of funniness.
shareIm from the states, and I watch the UK version on BBCAmerica..I love it too! But the problem w/ US adaptations of UK programs is we totally soften the plot, the characters and the problems they face. Im sure this version won't live up to the original versionJust look at the US version of Queer as Folk!
Outside the dawn is breaking,my makeup may be flakingbut my smile still stays on.
I completely agree. I love watching Coupling whenever I can find it on TV, but I don't like American remakes like Who Wants to be a Millionaire & Queer as Folk. America almost always ruins the original version's good name so that no Americans will watch the original, associating it with the remake. If NBC is trying to come up with a new show to replace its hit show Friends, they might want to try coming up with their own.
shareI totally AGREE!! Right on dawg!(did I just say dawg...)
Outside the dawn is breaking,my makeup may be flakingbut my smile still stays on.
I saw the pilot episode. Despite having the same exact script as the first episode of the UK version, it sucked big time. This mainly has to do with the cast, with the exception of the very sexy Lindsay Price who is actually very good as Jane. The other women are alright, perhaps they will get better as the series moves forward. The guys in my opinion are terribly miscast, especially the Steve character who looks a little too young and goofy for the role. Perhaps I've been tainted by watching the superior original on BBC America, they should have at least changed the script around a bit.
shareIt is difficult for an American version to capture the same feel as a British one and the reason I feel is this. British shows are willing to save up for a big punchline at the end, while American shows feel the need to be a laugh a minute, constant quipping. That is one of the things that makes Coupling so funny. Ep 2.9 is a perfect example of that. I thought it was rather unfunny through the whole episode, and then it finished with an amazing bang. American shows would be too afraid to lose the viewer to build up that much steam for a great ending joke.
oh well, I will give it a try anyway!
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Just bought the first season on DVD and I just loved the third episode "Sex, Death and Nudity." Man, this show is the funniest show ever. I hope the american version can be as good as the british version cause they really went all out. Anybody else got fave episodes from the first season?
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I don't have cable, so I can't see "Coupling" with any regularity at all, but I have the DVD of the first season, and for a very brief while there were a spate of episodes on PBS. I shudder to think of what the American version is going to be like. Has anyone at NBC noticed that the show has an awful lot of sexual content, at least implied? Twin sex-obsessives Patrick and Jeff are side-splittingly funny, but it's hard to imagine how their American counterparts will pull it off. Can you imagine an American Patrick revealing that he's enormously endowed and has a closetful of home-made porn? (How many milliseconds will go by before the phone lines light up with complaints?) And how about an American Jeff obsessing about women's various parts? Somehow in the British version, it's very funny---maybe we're willing to be a lot more tolerant of someone else's society---but here I think it's going to make a lot of people say "ick."
Fundamentally I guess it boils down to, we're still ashamed of the way we all got here in the first place, whereas in the UK they've learned to enjoy it.
(I agree with every person who asks, "Why can't they just show the original series?" Maybe Hollywood DOES think we're a bunch of morons who have to be spoon-fed our humor.)
Has anyone at NBC noticed that the show has an awful lot of sexual content, at least implied?
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Have you SEEN American TV lately? Shows like "Friends" and these reality dating shows, like "Meet My Folks" are just FILLED with tittilation and innuendo. I've caught MANY sexual references in "Friends" that seem a little too much for 8pm, plus the fact that all the characters on that show are so casual about their sexual escapades. I've watched many episodes of Coupling (which I find laugh-out loud funny), but don't really see that it is any more "shocking" or risque than what's already on.
Well, maybe the episode where Patrick starts naming body parts to the Jewish woman or how Steve is forced to defend "Lesbian Spank Inferno" to his friends.
I really hope the US version FAILS, though, because if it is a success, the BBC probably won't commission any more UK ones. They'll just import the US version as it would be cheaper.