Peep Show
The Affair
TV Flash files “The Affair” as hour 34 of 54 in the TV Flash guide — Peep Show (2003–2015) on Channel 4, season 6, episode 4, aired 2009-10-09, 30 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S06E04: listed hour 34 of 54 in the Peep Show guide, hour 4 of 6 in season 6. It aired 2009-10-09 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Jeremy in Love” (S06E03). Next is “The Party” (S06E05).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Mark discovers that Jeremy's girlfriend Elena has a guilty secret. But should he tell him when Jez is clearly so happy?
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Affair sit in the Peep Show guide?
S06E04 is listed hour 34 of 54 — hour 4 of 6 in season 6, season 6 episode 4.
When did Peep Show S06E04 air?
The Affair aired 2009-10-09 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
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- Paterson Joseph as Alan Johnson
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