Peep Show
Are We Going to Be Alright?
TV Flash files “Are We Going to Be Alright?” as a desk essential hour — Peep Show (2003–2015) on Channel 4, season 9, episode 6, aired 2015-12-16, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S09E06: listed hour 54 of 54 in the Peep Show guide, last listed hour of season 9. It aired 2015-12-16 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Kid Farm” (S09E05). No later hour is listed in this guide.
Essential hour: “Are We Going to Be Alright?”. Are We Going to Be Alright? is the series closer posed as a question — British sitcom cruelty billed, Olivia Colman already in the rearview of prestige.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Jeremy is about to turn 40 and it's hit him hard. He has seen himself resort to extreme measures in order to keep up with Mark, who finds three-day drug binges easy. Mark makes an attempt to win back the woman of his dreams.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Are We Going to Be Alright? sit in the Peep Show guide?
S09E06 is listed hour 54 of 54 — last listed hour of season 9, season 9 episode 6.
When did Peep Show S09E06 air?
Are We Going to Be Alright? aired 2015-12-16 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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- 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…