So it's safe to say that I've established myself as a pretty big fan of Edgar Wright. And as such, I love Spaced. Created by Simon Pegg and Jessica Hynes and directed by Edgar Wright, Spaced is about two people pretending to be dating so they can keep a flat. Kind of. If you've seen Spaced, you'll know that it's anything but normal. See, Spaced makes reference to a huge amount of movies, and often plays with common tropes. Why I love this is because it balances that against its fairly mundane setting and becomes something else entirely. Spaced works because it creates a world that's kind of like our own, but also has this almost fantasy feel to it, where a new job can become One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, or returning from a night out can become an epic (imaginary) shootout.
I love how this show wears it's love of media on its sleeve. Every parody is purely affectionate, and the eye to detail with some of the easter eggs is clearly the work of someone who cares. Every episode is jammed with jokes, and most of the time it demands to be revisited. It's funny in a surreal way, and it's beyond charming. I guess you could say it's like a dry run of the Cornetto trilogy, but I think there's something else about Spaced. It just has this feeling of narrative freedom because everything seemed possible in this show. It was spontaneous, unpredictable and laugh out loud funny. Even now, it stands up there with some of Wright's best directorial work, and it's hands down one of my personal favourite Britcoms. It's a simple situation written from such a unique perspective, and I don't see myself loving it less any time soon.
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