Coupling

Standard issue romantic sitcom about a group of people who play musical relationships. British television being a little less prudish than American network television, this show is more in-your-face with the sex talk. It sets aside the romanticism of Friends for a more realistic look at being in a relationship.

Things move a bit faster without the overhead of having to fill twenty-two episode a season. The writers are also more interested with the actual "being together" part of the story than the "will they won't they" part. That made a big difference as they could cut out all the back and forth episodes that spend time pretending a viewer can't tell from the start where all this is headed.

I've always been skeptical of that argument that getting characters together is the most interesting part and that they get "boring" afterwards. If the writers have any talent at all, they should be able to make any situation interesting. Coupling pretty much proves me right.

Starring Jack Davenport, Gina Bellman, Sarah Alexander, Kate Isitt, Ben Miles and Richard Coyle.