6. Coupling
Perhaps a perfect example of how a remake shouldn’t be handled, the US version of Coupling was rightly torn apart by critics, with one particularly harsh comment saying that it gave “sex, comedy, and television a bad name”. Ouch.
Even the president of the network it aired on (for all of four episodes before being cancelled) would later say that, “It just sucked.” Something was just lost in translation with this one, as even following the exact same storylines as the original did the series no favours.
The outrageous and clever humour was gone, leaving the jokes to fall flat with much of the blame laid at the feet of the mediocre cast.
Whats odd is that most of the british shows we’re commissioned as direct rip offs of US shows. Coupling was the UK friends, Cold feet the UK Thirtysomething, Life On Mars just a nostalcic homage to Starskey And Hutch with an ironic noughties twist. Luther is just a generic HBO style cop proceedural. Black Mirror is basically just a UK Outer Limits. All we did was make their own templates feel original. They put the cart before the horse and made it a camel. A brand name slapped on a shops own brand.
You’re an idiot.
Not even 300 years of modern history & your’e using the same old fictional bull crap “America is the best at everything”.
How many times have you Yanks ripped British television off? How convenient of you not to mention that.
Bow down and and say hi to your daddy.
Suck it up.
peep show