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Coupling - Circus of Edipurals

episode 4.4

UK 2004
produced by
Sue Vertue for Hartswood Films/BBC
directed by Martin Dennis
starring Jack Davenport, Gina Bellman, Sarah Alexander, Kate Isitt, Ben Miles, Richard Mylan, Olivia Caffrey, Elizabeth Marmur
written by Steven Moffat

TV-series
Coupling

review by
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When pregnant Susan (Sarah Alexander) has serious doubts about Steve (Jack Davenport) being her birth-partner, she asks her best friend Sally (Kate isitt) to be her back up, & come to join her (& Steve) at a couple of antenatal classes (but "without turning it into a circus). Sally of course agrees wholeheartedly ... until she learns she probably has to be present at the actual birth, & because of the size of the baby, the doctors might have to make a incision you-know-where. So, to not let her friend down, she asks Jane (Gina Bellman) to be her back-up, who in turn asks Oliver (Richard Mylan) to come along for the ride (as a nice way of dropping him), who in turn asks Patrick 8Ben Miles) to join him to not be the only non-father among the attending men.

For no reason at all, the class is held by Jill (Elizabeth Marmur, the psychiatrist from the episode Inferno from four years ago), who is of course immediately devastated once Jane shows up.

The class is soon divided into male & female points-of-view when the use of painkillers during childbirth (men: yes, women: no) is dicussed, & Steve vividly takes a stand pro-painkillers, speaking for all men in the room ... but Susan has already made up another plan when she hands the responsibility for not giving her painkillers over to him ...

 

In itself this is not at all an unfunny episode (especially the scenes when Sally goes to her safe-place where a string-quartet is playing are hilarious), but seen in a bigger context, it relies way too much on past glories, as some elements are copied straight from other episodes - the concept of everyone inviting everyone else to some event where they are all out of place is straight out of Sex, Death & Nudity, Jill's nonsense-discussions with Jane is out of Inferno, & Steve taking a stand for almost anything is actually a mainstay throughtout the series - , & they were all done better the first time around. & again, Richard Mylan as the new weird guy (after Richard Coyle's departure) fails to bring any laughs to the series.

 

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