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?
