rosie it's funny because --- well --- coupling was the british version of friends - it's been stated by the creators they wanted a british version of friends --- but then coupling was such a hit we tried to recreate a british recreation of friends - and it just sucked!!!!
the actors weren't that great - it seemed really overacted, etc...
and the script sucked - was tooooo cheesey
Wow. I just wrote an incredibly long reply to this thread and just got disconnected from the Internet. Rather than crying, I will give you now the abridged version of what I just spent too much time composing.
1) I absolutely
love British Coupling with the entirety of my soul. :bday: :bday: :bday:
2) Poor Rosie has had to listen to my superfluous adoration of the BBC America channel (which brings me British Coupling) on prior occasions. For that I apologize. I will continue to sing the praises of this channel anyway, and implore nessaholics everywhere to light a candle to the satellite service that brings BBC America into my home every day of the year.
3) I agree with Steph that American Coupling was very BLAH. The acting was poor. The actors could not convince me that they
were the characters.
I disagree with Steph that the script sucked. American Coupling uses almost exactly the same script as the British version, and the British version of the same episode is never as bad as what we were subjected to on NBC.
Okay, yes, I admit some little things are different in the script. American Coupling did add in a tidbit or two to make things "sexier". I imagine they'd have to change all of the references to British celebrities as well because I do NOT know who Brit Eckland is. Do you? Middle America won't know either. Help, please. Who is this mysterious British celebrity?
4)
Why I love British Coupling: Situation comedies rarely make me laugh aloud.
Fucking Friends doesn't make me laugh aloud. British Coupling is so well acted and well written that I laugh throughout the entire episode. The writing is so clever. You cannot tell me that there is anything wrong with the scripts - especially when I watch the American Coupling's pilot episode and then I watch the same episode of British Coupling and everything is the same...only British Coupling is a thousand times better.
5) The character of the goofy male friend who has trouble with the ladies cannot possibly translate to an American version properly. The American actor played that role like he was a normal person. The British actor is always spazzing about and he's so good at being a naive outsider...maybe it's the accent? His not being "English"? I don't know how the American version could recreate that. Maybe by bringing in a Canadian?
6) Okay, I admit that I'm biased. Coupling to me
is the British version. That's all I've known. And it cannot be recreated because those British actors are not actors to me, they
are those characters.
7) Yeah, I know this is the Ghostwriter thread. But hey, I created it. So there. I can digress if I want to. Besides, I don't think there are enough of us Coupling fans out there to create a proper Coupling thread.
Or is there? ooooh?
PS
I love Graham Norton.
