Peep Show · Season 9 · Episode 6 · 16 December 2015
S9E6 Are We Going to Be Alright?
THE MOMENT The final image of Mark and Jeremy: together not because they chose it but because the universe offers them nothing better.
The series finale answers its own question with characteristic ambivalence. Mark and Jeremy end where they began - together by default, having failed at nearly everything else - and the show finds a note of melancholy resolution that is earned precisely because it refuses to be triumphant.
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Peep Show Season 9 Episode 6 'Are We Going to Be Alright?' aired December 16, 2015 on Channel 4 as the series finale of a 12-year, 9-season run that earned 100 percent Rotten Tomatoes for its final season. IMDb audiences scored the series 8.7. Radio Times named Peep Show 13th on its 2019 poll of the greatest British sitcoms. The finale answers its own question with characteristic ambivalence: Mark and Jeremy end where they began - together by default, having failed at nearly everything else - and the show finds a note of melancholy resolution that is earned precisely because it refuses to be triumphant. Critics treated the ending as the only appropriate conclusion for characters whose defining feature is their inability to escape each other or themselves. The final image does not offer redemption, but it does offer recognition, which the show's 12-year audience had long since learned to read as its version of affection.