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SPACED the complete series is now finally on DVD in the US! The hilarious and inventive sitcom from the minds of (and also starring) Simon Pegg and Jessica Hynes (nee Stevenson), and the vision of director Edgar Wright was released in the US yesterday July 22nd.

First off if you have never heard of or seen Spaced, get out there and start watching it and then buy it. If you have heard of and/or seen Spaced, what are you sitting around for, buy it immediately.

For those of you who don’t know Spaced, I’ll fill you in. It’s a quirky sitcom about friends Tim (Pegg) and Daisy (Hynes) who pretend to be a couple in order to share a flat. The sitcom focuses on their everyday lives as Tim plays video games and works on his comics while trying to get over his last girlfriend and Daisy unsuccessfully tries to make it as a serious writer and eventually trades her boyfriend in for a new dog named Colin. We meet their land lady Marsha a chain smoking alcoholic who’s in love with Tim and Daisy’s downstairs neighbor Brian (Mark Heap) the disturbed painter. We also meet Tim and Daisy’s best friends Mike (Nick Frost) a childish lovable character who is obsessed with combat and Twist a ditsy fashion designer.

For all you film and television nerds out there, (I’m included in that group) your in for a real pleasure because the series is filled with film and television references some obvious and many are amazingly obscure. Star Wars, X-Files, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Scooby Doo, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, The A-Team, along with many others. In one episode they make a reference to Pulp Fiction and now in the US DVD extra features, Quentin Tarantino provides commentary about this particular scene and reference.

There were several promotional events and I was lucky enough to attend one in NYC on Monday the 21st. It was a treat and I can’t wait to watch the entire series again and all the bonus features on my new Spaced DVD set and I hope you will do the same.

-Shavon Keller 

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