A lot of reviewers here have wasted time comparing this show to it's British original or to other contemporary American sitcoms. Why? This show failed for one reason: it was about 6 people so obsessed with sex that they all belonged in an asylum.
We know sex sells, and we understand that lots of people with no sense of humor like to laugh at bathroom jokes and naughty innuendo. But the US version of "Coupling" features more sex than a pornographic movie. When characters aren't having sex or talking about sex they're fantasizing about sex, asking about sex, or simply saying the word 'sex.' (Sex) They're so sex busy having sex that they sex forget to be sex funny in the least...
As a result only four episodes ever aired... this was filth put forth by a network out of ideas, shooting for the lowest-common denominator and missing even that. 'Coupling' brought out the offended prude in everyone. I saw one episode of the British version: it was raunchy, dirty AND hilarious...everything the American version was supposed to be; we didn't miss by inches, we missed by a mile.
Consider yourself lucky that you didn't have to see this ridiculous failure. Nothing redeeming here...
GRADE: F
(Sex)
We know sex sells, and we understand that lots of people with no sense of humor like to laugh at bathroom jokes and naughty innuendo. But the US version of "Coupling" features more sex than a pornographic movie. When characters aren't having sex or talking about sex they're fantasizing about sex, asking about sex, or simply saying the word 'sex.' (Sex) They're so sex busy having sex that they sex forget to be sex funny in the least...
As a result only four episodes ever aired... this was filth put forth by a network out of ideas, shooting for the lowest-common denominator and missing even that. 'Coupling' brought out the offended prude in everyone. I saw one episode of the British version: it was raunchy, dirty AND hilarious...everything the American version was supposed to be; we didn't miss by inches, we missed by a mile.
Consider yourself lucky that you didn't have to see this ridiculous failure. Nothing redeeming here...
GRADE: F
(Sex)