Peep Show
The Test
TV Flash files “The Test” as hour 32 of 54 in the TV Flash guide — Peep Show (2003–2015) on Channel 4, season 6, episode 2, aired 2009-09-25, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S06E02: listed hour 32 of 54 in the Peep Show guide, hour 2 of 6 in season 6. It aired 2009-09-25 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Jeremy at JLB” (S06E01). Next is “Jeremy in Love” (S06E03).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Jeremy meets a new love, Russian emigre Elena. Meanwhile, Mark makes a final play for Dobby, the object of his desires. But Sophie has some news...
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Test sit in the Peep Show guide?
S06E02 is listed hour 32 of 54 — hour 2 of 6 in season 6, season 6 episode 2.
When did Peep Show S06E02 air?
The Test aired 2009-09-25 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
- David Mitchell as Mark Corrigan
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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
Olivia Colman inherited The Crown’s middle-era Queen Elizabeth II with steel, ache, and awards gravity — after Fleabag’s godmother monologue melted the internet. Post-Foy reincarnation proved the series’ casting gambit worked. On TV Flash…
- 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…