Peep Show
Mugging
TV Flash files “Mugging” as a desk essential hour — Peep Show (2003–2015) on Channel 4, season 3, episode 1, aired 2005-11-11, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S03E01: listed hour 13 of 54 in the Peep Show guide, first listed hour of season 3. It aired 2005-11-11 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Wedding” (S02E06). Next is “Sectioning” (S03E02).
Essential hour: “Mugging”. Mugging launches year three in one blunt gerund: Peep Show's comfortlessness as house style, the POV still refusing a laugh-track hug.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Some muggers steal Mark's precious BlackBerry, which puts him off his stroke with Sophie. Meanwhile, Jeremy faces a tricky dilemma over the love of his life and a potential threesome.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Mugging sit in the Peep Show guide?
S03E01 is listed hour 13 of 54 — first listed hour of season 3, season 3 episode 1.
When did Peep Show S03E01 air?
Mugging aired 2005-11-11 and is listed at 30 minutes.
Why the first-person cameras?
Interior monologue is the entire joke. Two terrible brains in a Croydon flat — POV as form, not a gimmick episode.
In the series
Why this series still plays
First-person cameras inside two terrible brains sharing a Croydon flat. Peep Show makes interior monologue the entire joke: David Mitchell's Mark, Robert Webb's Jeremy, Olivia Colman before the prestige years — British social horror as a nine-series cult that never looks away.
Channel 4 stuck first-person cameras inside two terrible brains sharing a Croydon flat and then let the title run nine series like inventory that refused a hug. Peep Show (2003–2015), from Andrew O'Connor, Jesse Armstrong, and Sam Bain: David Mitchell's Mark, Robert Webb's Jeremy, Olivia Colman as Sophie before the prestige years, Paterson Joseph. Interior monologue as the entire joke. Social horror as British sitcom. Fifty-four episodes. Armstrong later co-created Succession — a later window, not a prerequisite.…
Filed against
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- Robert Webb as Jeremy Usborne
Robert Webb's Jeremy Usborne turned Peep Show into two terrible brains sharing a Croydon flat — first-person cameras, interior monologue as the entire joke, David Mitchell's Mark as the other half of British social horror. Olivia Colman…
- Olivia Colman as Sophie Chapman
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- Paterson Joseph as Alan Johnson
Paterson Joseph plays Alan Johnson on Peep Show, the 2000s first-person cult where two terrible brains share a Croydon flat. Interior monologue as the entire joke: Mark, Jeremy, Olivia Colman before the prestige years. TV Flash files him…