Spaced

Spaced is a creative comedy programme made by Simon Pegg before he made “Shaun of the Dead.” In this programme he stars as one of the two main characters, he is a comic artist who hopes to one day work for Dark Star comics. For the time being he works for Fantasy Bazzar where he is the assistant manager, unfortunately the only other person who works there is his manager Bilbo, played by Bill Bailey.
The second main character is Daisy Steiner played by Jessica Stevenson, she is a writer, or so she claims, she never seems to do much work and when we do see her in employment she certainly is not writing.
The story through most of both the series is that Tim and Daisy have moved into a flat together after lying to the landlady and saying they were a professional couple. As the two live there we see them going through a lot of adventures and we see appearances from Edgar Wright who plays Tim’s friend Mike who is on suspension from the TA, to find out why you will have to watch the show though.
We also see them meet up and go partying with their friend “Tyres” who is a parcel delivery boy who is constantly on drugs and can rave to anything (and I mean anything).
Other such adventures we see them on include: paintballing, rescuing dogs, partying (sort of), going to see contemporary theatre with their friend Brian the “Artist”. We also meet Daisy’s best friend “Twist” who claims she got her name because her parents were hippies.
The episodes have very unique styles to them, by this I mean that in parts characters will do something unexpected and unauthordox, this serves to both get laughs and confuse you. Seconds later however you can see that this is just what is going through the characters mind and is not actually what is happening. A lot of the time however it takes a moment of two to realise when this has happened.
A key aspect in this show is the drug references. In order to get teenagers to watch they seem to have used drugs to appeal to the humour of the audience. In one episode we see them smoking a joint, in another we hear Tim say he had been up all night on “cheap speed”, and in another they seem to have been taking ecstasy although we did not get told this was so.
I would recommend this show to anyone that has a good sense of humour.
I give Spaced an over 9/10.