简介： 本剧集是(✒)BBC 2台2000年正式(🕟)推出的以青年人为题材和对象的系列情景喜剧，创意和编剧均由Steven Moffat一人担当。三男三女的主(👁)要人物构成很容易使人联想到当时正走红（其实已经在走下坡路）的《Friends》，因此很有(📯)不少根(⏯)本没看(🔢)过本剧的媒体人(㊗)士和评论家想当然地将本(🙌)剧称作英国版的《Friends》，而在那些有(🤲)幸欣赏过(💠)本剧的观众们看来，《Coupling》在情节设定、人(🍑)物表演、喜剧元素的设计(🐛)和表现等诸多方面所达到的水平，要(😝)比《Friends》高几个档次。相比(📸)之(🥤)下，《Friends》只(📐)能说是一部“业余”水平的好作品而已。当(🍁)然总体来说，英剧的水准本身就高于美剧，这和英剧注意保(🚤)持创意(⛴)、编剧一体化是分不开的，美剧的(💕)创意一般也就为最初几集编剧，以后主要的编剧工(📯)作都是(👆)由其(🏗)它编剧根据(🌒)最初的角色设定来自由发挥(🔮)，编剧队伍的构成也是不断变化，老(😙)的走新的来，造成美剧情节连(🎇)贯性差(🦄)甚至(🔰)前后(🏉)矛盾，故事往往缺乏(🚹)深度，人物性格平面(📛)化，缺少发展。这都是题外话了。 《Coupling》的主要人物包括优柔寡断、性格不成熟的(🚞)帅哥(😳)Steve，Steve的莫逆之交、举止语(☔)言古怪、总也(🐎)找不到女友的Jeff，头脑简单(🗄)、外表性感的“donkey” Patrick三位对Porn、特别是lesbian porn非常热中的男士，以及Steve的前女(🗻)友、神神叨叨、(🥖)擅用性感作武器的Jane，Steve的继任女友(👚)、Jeff的同事(🤨)、曾(👮)经(💽)非常“不羁”（(📮)包括和Jeff还有Patrick）过的Susan，Susan的莫逆、对衰老和肥胖极度敏感的美容师Sally三位(🚝)女士。在第一集(🚀)中，Steve决定“再(📊)次”和(🆘)女友Jane分(💴)手，结果却被Jane三言两(🔪)语引诱到洗手(🚲)间亲(📥)热；Patrick想把和Susan的关(🚑)系再进一步，却被告知根本不存在(〰)什么“关系”； Susan在(📿)洗手间碰到匆忙(🚲)出来买Durex的Steve，向他表(👓)示好感，两人订下(💍)约会以(😍)后Steve钻进隔间继续……。本(👫)剧的主线包括Steve和 Susan之间逐渐正式起来的关系，Jeff寻找艳遇过程中的种种意外以及后来和上(🎿)司(📪)发展出(📣)来的一段(✖)关系，Patrick和Sally之间若有若无到若即若离再(📓)到情深难舍的感情发展，还有Jane在事业和异性关系中的各(🐞)种奇事，等等。 (📛)本(😏)剧在(👑)情节设计中所(🚟)达到的精致和完美程度让人叹为观止，而六位当时并不算大明星的青年演员的所(🚶)展现精湛演技更是具有顶尖演员的水平，无怪乎播出之后立刻走红大洋两(♿)岸，在IMDB、AMAZON和BBC网站可以领略到其受欢迎的程度。2002年底，第3季播(⭕)毕，故事情节基本告一段(⏪)落。美国NBC看到这部“英国版《Friends》”在英美两地均(🛍)广受欢迎，觉得正好可以(🕜)搬来做2004年终于要关张的《Friends》的接(🐢)班(🎻)人，于是2003年大张旗鼓地决定翻拍美版《Coupling》。美国(🎁)的fans本来以为这是件好事，没想到NBC的(😉)翻拍愚蠢地采用了全台(🌡)词照搬的(🛤)方法，虽然个(🔝)人没看过，不过也可以想象到有多恶心，结果只(🚲)播(🏞)出一集(✝)Pilot就因为骂声太大而整个计划搁浅（这点上美国佬(💜)是值得学习的(😬)，不象中国有些搞(🌕)影视的(🌽)骂声越大越要上）。在这里http://www.nbc.com/Coupling/可以看到这(🍕)个计划的尸体，还有一(🔺)些(🈴)彻底走了味儿的(💞)剧照。 (👪) 2003年底，本剧获得英国(🚁)喜剧奖（BCA）最佳电视喜剧奖。BBC已(🎻)经在2004年正式开(⬛)拍并播出第4季，不过Jeff这(🙈)个人(🔆)物将不(⛑)再出现，而代之以新角色(🎊)——经营Sci-Fi书店的Oliver，由Richard Mylan扮演。从已经播出的(😥)几集来看，应该说在更换主要角色之一的背景下，基本保持(🐻)了前3季的水准，但是同时也流露出对前(🧑)3季中成功情节进行拷贝的迹象，希望这仅仅是偶(⛏)然。 Two's company, three's a crowd... so what do you do with six? On average, men and women think about sex every six seconds. Shorten that to every second, and you've got Coupling. It's more than just a one night stand! When a couple gets together, it's never just the two of them - they also bring baggage - and Susan (Sarah Alexander) and Steve (Jack Davenport) are no exception. Their baggage is a crowd of best friends and exes who talk about all aspects of sex and relationships on their never-ending quest to find true love. Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps... Susan Walker is a beautiful go-getter with an uninhibited attitude who used to date Patrick Maitland (Ben Miles), the sextet's charismatic, cocky player, London's king of conquests - a guy who's just too cool to worry about being smart. Attractive Sally Harper (Kate Isitt) is a beauty therapist who is Susan's unashamedly vain best friend, who aggressively battles aging with heavy doses of moisturizer and men - including Patrick. Meanwhile, Steve Taylor, while getting together with Susan, can't seem to shake loose from his vivacious and slightly vacuous ex-girlfriend Jane Christie (Gina Bellman), a woman supremely confident in her ability to seduce anyone of either sex, and who refuses to be dumped unless she's the one doing the dumping. Jeff Murdoch (Richard Coyle) is Steve's "porn buddy" who is, in equal parts, obsessed and bewildered by actual sex; charming in his way, but with an uncanny ability to say the wrong thing at the worst possible time. He works in the same office as Susan, with whom he had a disastrous and unsuccessful one-night fling. Coupling has been honoured with the prestigious Silver Rose of Montreux, Best TV Comedy Award, and is recent winner at the 2003 British Comedy Awards. With a new guy on the scene, a baby on the way, commitment in the air, and love on the horizon, the dynamics of the six friends are definitely changing. (🎇) At the end of last season Susan and Steve discovered they were pregnant (well, mostly Susan), confirmed bachelor Patrick and Sally finally admitted their true feelings for each other, and poor Jane was left on her own, once again. (🤢)But it's not all doom and gloom for Jane. As the new season opens, things are looking up. There's this guy called Oliver, who has his eye on her. Is it possible that lifetime loser in love Oliver might just get somewhere with lifetime loser in love Jane? Trouble is, his apartment is a little "un-edited" and his living room has lost the battle with magazine nudity... (🏨)Susan and Steve are now well and truly an item. So why is he dreaming about being executed by a fetus with an axe? Meanwhile Sally and Patrick are settling into their new relationship. But since the dawn of time, men and women have been falling in love - and men have been trying to get home straight afterwards. Can fallen playboy Patrick ever find his way back from the enchanted glade of his one true love and get a decent night's sleep?
