Stars: Jack Davenport, Gina Bellman, Sarah Alexander, Kate Isitt, Ben Miles, Richard Coyle

Director: Martin Dennis

Summary: All of the third series which covers everything from sexual exploration to social humiliation. Steve and Susan have spilt up and each have their own way of dealing with it. Steve heads for a strip club and Susan heads for the beauty salon.

COUPLING, the thirty-something comedy about, er, thirty-something couples returns for a third series on DVD. Fans may remember Steve and Susan's split at the end of series two. These seven episodes take off where the last seven left off, with Steve and Sarah splitting up. Twosome shenanigans abound as the six stars wax lyrical about love and get into myriad scrapes.

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The third series of Coupling, first aired in 2002, takes fans of the BBC's comedy of sex, manners and modern relationships into new realms of engaging surrealism, leaving those irritating comparisons with Friends trailing in its wake. The men are constantly in pursuit of a basic grasp of the "emotional things" that make women behave the way they do. The women analyse everything to death. But thanks to Steve Moffat's scripts, tighter and quirkier than ever, these characters are living, breathing human beings rather than cynical ciphers for comedy stereotypes.

The performances are as strong as you'd expect from an established team, with actors such as Jack Davenport (the ever-perplexed Steve), Ben Miles (unreconstructed chauvinist Patrick), Sally Alexander (dryly intelligent Susan) and Kate Isitt (neurotic Sally) wearing their roles like second skins. But in the surreal stakes, it's Richard Coyle as Jeff, wondering aloud what happens to jelly after women have finished wrestling in it, and Gina Bellman as Jane, musing on the importance of a first snog in identifying what men like to eat, who really raise the laughter levels. All things considered, this is superior comedy for all thirtysomethings--genuine and putative. --Piers Ford

Aspect Ratio:	16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Selective Commentary With Jack Davenport And Steven Moffat, Cast And Crew Interviews, Unfilmed Script Extracts
Year:	2002
Release Date:	September 22, 2003
Runtime:	204 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	V C D 0292
Label:	B B C / Hartswood Films
Keywords:	Two, General, Third, Series, Wide, Screen, Tv, Drama, Complete, Discs, Coupling
Genre:	Drama