Spaced

Simon Pegg is awesome. Enough said.

Spaced is a television series that aired over in the wonderful nation of England. It's about two people who have recently been dumped or done the deed, and are out of a place to live. After a chance meeting in a coffee shop the two find an advertisement in a newspaper for an apartment. The catch: it's for professional couples only. So, with some clever doctoring of photos and a shoddy story, they get the apartment. What follows is shenanigans of epic (well, not epic) proportions.

The characters in Spaced are great and, since it's a small cast, we get to see a lot of who they are. You get your easy laughs at some of the situations, but you also see a level of depth in their decisions that are nearly unseen in shows today. Apart from the depth and all that, the situations themselves are quite funny and odd, and Simon Pegg typically puts a satirical spin on it. He rarely outright makes fun of them; instead, he honors them by showing that you can laugh at the ridiculousness of things and love them all the more for it.

I feel bad making this entry so short, but with it being a television show I would have to explain entire seasons. Rather than that, I suggest renting or buying this show; recently they've released it in a box set at a modest price.