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For those who missed the first series, despite many repeats of both on E4,
circumstances brought this odd couple together in a cafe, which led to
them posing as a professional couple in order to get a flat together,
despite the landlady being the drunk Marsha Klein (Julia Deakin)
and the building containing the weird Brian (Mark Heap, who appeared with
Simon Pegg in the aforementioned sketch show Big Train) and who maintains
he is also an artist, but one dealing in works that reflect pain and
aggression.
Throw in a number of other characters including regular best-friends for
Daisy and Tim respectively, the off-the-wall Twist (Liverpool 1's Katy Carmichael) and "weapons expert"
territorial army man Mike (Nick Frost), plus movie references aplenty including
2001: A Space Odyssey, The Matrix, Star Wars and a Pulp Fiction
spoof so clever that it was nearly half-over before I realised.
It took me a while to get into the first series, but with the second one
things clicked much more quickly and highlights from this one include
Daisy's return after her trip, both Daisy and Tim's visit to the Jobcentre only
to get turned down in the most demeaning ways possible, Tim's affliction
and dispute with George Lucas over
Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace,
the re-appearance of Tyres, the 'Robot Wars' competition, Tim nearly getting
the very job and the girl of his dreams, the episode that starts with the ending
and the penultimate episode which ended with yet another homage to
Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, but which was talked over
in the most irritating way by the Channel 4 continuity announcer trying to
do an impression of Yoda(!)
And that was half the problem when it was broadcast and why I'm so glad we now
have this DVD. So many episodes were talked over or had the excellent closing
credits squashed up or cut off in their prime, all of which made me want to
see those in charge of this decision publicly executed - and add to that the
stupid woman who dumped
Right To Reply
after 18 years onscreen.
Spaced is not a laugh-out-loud funny sitcom, but clearly draws you in with its
style including the use of cut-scenes spliced in all over the place.
The Matrix - it's enough to send you to sleep.
There's no problems with the encoding of the picture on this DVD, although
it does have a slightly washed-out and blurry look to it throughout. However,
that is down to the way it was filmed. It's also presented in the original
anamorphic widescreen 16:9 ratio as shown on Channel 4.
Spaced doesn't have a theme tune of its own, but it's populated by
snippets of different songs - almost all of which are named in the subtitles -
and other programmes' theme tunes, including Thunderbirds and
This Morning, plus various audio swipes that accompany visual
cues. Call me a purist, but if someone had remixed the entire soundtrack into
Dolby Digital 5.1 it would have been quite a perfect treat.
Tim works out his problems with George Lucas over
Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace.
The extras, all in anamorphic 16:9 widescreen, feature Cast and Crew
Biographies for not only the director and producer, but also the characters themselves
which is quite a novel twist. The Trailers section consists of trailers
for the first four episodes, plus specific ones for Daisy and Tim used before
the second series began. I'm not actually sure if they made any more for the
last three episodes because it's only nearer the start of a series than a
channel will go to such trouble, leaving the following to pick up on the rest.
The ones that we do get here are classics though.
There are 13 minutes of Out-takes and 18 Deleted Scenes (totalling
18 minutes), each with an optional audio commentary track explaining why they
were left out. The Raw Footage is 6½ minutes of work-in-progress footage on set
as it's being filmed and Daisy Does Elvis is a one-minute excerpt of Jessica
Stevenson singing "Teddy Bear".
In addition to a Photo Library, finally comes the feature-length
Audio Commentary from stars Simon Pegg, Jessica Stevenson and
director Edgar Wright.
The disc contains five chapters per episode, subtitles in English for the
hard of hearing which capture just about all of the dialogue and the menus
are silent, but contain subtle animation.
Finally, though, comes one of the best extras: an extra set of subtitles
known as the "Homage-o-meter" which point out every single one of the
film and TV references through the entire series, some of which I got and
many of which I didn't, plus even some references back to the first series.
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