Spaced: The Complete Series | 
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Studio: BBC Warner
Category: DVD
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Rating:  70 reviews
Sales Rank: 584
Format: Box Set, Color, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Subtitled), English (Original Language)
Number Of Items: 3
Running Time: 350
Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.5 x 1
UPC: 883929019748
EAN: 0883929019748
ASIN: B0019MFY3Q
Theatrical Release Date: 2008
Release Date: July 22, 2008
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It only takes one episode to become very protective of this 1999 British Comedy Award-winning series that put comedy soul mates Simon Pegg and Jessica Stevenson (now Hynes), as well as Nick Frost, and director Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz) on the map. One can only hope a threatened American version is never produced. This is one of those brilliant, off-center, lightning-in-a-bottle creations that gets you so jazzed, you want to turn all your friends on to it. Spaced (actually, Friends might have been a better title; too bad it was taken) stars Pegg and Stevenson as strangers Tim and Daisy, "amiable 20-somethings" who pose as a "professional couple" to rent an apartment. He is a recently-dumped aspiring comic book artist. She is an easily distracted writer. As the series unfolds, their apartment becomes an "island of calm in the ocean of life" as Tim and Daisy form a kind of 21st century family with their similarly misfit friends, including soused landlord Marsha (Julia Deakin), who lives with her teenager daughter (aka "the devil in a A cup," who is heard, but never quite seen), Brian (Mark Heap), an artist who deals in anger, fear, and aggression, Simon's best friend Mark (Frost), a militaristic gun nut, and Daisy's best friend, Twist (Katy Carmichael), a fashion poseur (in the series' penultimate episode, look for a pre-Office Ricky Gervais). Spaced is not so much interested in Tim and Daisy's charade as it is in cramming each episode with pop culture references and obscure in-jokes, and brilliantly realized film and TV homages, ranging from Woody Allen's Manhattan to Pulp Fiction and The Empire Strikes Back (Star Wars, especially, looms large in Tim's slacker universe). As with Arrested Development, Spaced benefits from repeat viewings to catch missed bits of business and gags that fly by at a Simpsons-esque rate. This Complete Series set is everything Spaced's fervent following would demand. Each episode is complemented by the original commentaries as well as newly-recorded gabfests that also feature American friends of the show, including Kevin Smith, Patton Oswalt, Quentin Taratinto, Matt Stone, Diablo Cody, and Bill Hader. There are deleted scenes and outtakes, and, best of all, an hour-long 2007 Q&A with Wright and the cast, in which Pegg allows that, had there been a third series (and we can still dream), it would have provided viewers hoping that Tim and Daisy would ultimately get together with "a moment to make every hair of your body stand on end." You will see such a moment if you "skip to the end" of the essential near two-hour series retrospective. --Donald Liebenson
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great comedy with bonus: no canned laughter October 6, 2008
I love all the episodes, especially the one with the performance artist named "Vulva". I've been a fan of Simon Pegg since I saw him on Dylan Moran's "Black Books"; I think that's available on region 1 DVD now too.
Spaced - classic October 3, 2008
Spaced has shown up late on US shores, a late 1990's show from Britain. If you have seen Shaun of the Dead and/or Hot Fuzz, the humor is not going to surprise you.
The show surrounds the experiences of a couple who move in together as a matter of convenience when they both need somewhere to live. In their flat (part of a sub-divided house) we find an eclectic group of neighbours and friends. Recurring themes tie most episodes together. Almost every episode is some kind of homily to some kind of Pop Culture phenomenom. Star Wars and Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind are some of the visual and/or dialog references. Zombie movies later immortalized in "Shaun of the Dead" are previewed here (noting the series predates the movie).
Wright and Pegg deliver throughout. Hilarious and addictive.
GREAT SHOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! October 1, 2008
I first got turned on to this show through watching "Shaun of the Dead" and "Hot Fuzz". Listening to the commentary on those two films, Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright referred to Spaced alot. So I decided to watch it. This show is hilarious and for some reason it reminds me alot of my life, well with out so much drug use. GREAT SHOW!!!!!!!
Early Simon Pegg and Cast Have Great Chemistry October 1, 2008
Great comedy by one of the best. If you liked his 'Shaun of the Dead' or 'Hot Fuzz' you won't be disappointed with this set. Some of the scenes are already 'classic comedy pieces', like the Finger Shoot Out and The Rave. Strikes a chord in all ages and types. All the characters blend well and feed off each other. Equally as creative as shows like 'Father Ted' and 'Fawlty Towers' to name a few.
spaced, the final frontier September 30, 2008
outstanding, peggs best work; even better than shaun of the dead.
you wont be disapointed
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