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Written by James M. Tate / 6/09/2022 / No comments / british , comedy , cult , edgar wright , jessica stevenson , julia deakin , mark heap , nick frost , peter serafinowicz , simon pegg , tv series

EDGAR WRIGHT DIRECTS THE BRITISH CULT TV-SERIES 'SPACED'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNGSl_E2o23e93FHsOB9suBm7Cl-LAh8mhnMPA5SFPwAvmKh0kbIyQ5ybHk45xggaSimcVv8V_5m1Z8-gRwWOw23mgA_gwEi0HsWU-WaUCRKRXfZE4KxSyLwXaEPLg41qhADtHUD2-bMO0lA_y2ZWwh430wmgM1gBma0f5U6icMwU4y22tZEKyXbN6uw/s2268/Screen%20Shot%202022-06-09%20at%207.18.58%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1226" data-original-width="2268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNGSl_E2o23e93FHsOB9suBm7Cl-LAh8mhnMPA5SFPwAvmKh0kbIyQ5ybHk45xggaSimcVv8V_5m1Z8-gRwWOw23mgA_gwEi0HsWU-WaUCRKRXfZE4KxSyLwXaEPLg41qhADtHUD2-bMO0lA_y2ZWwh430wmgM1gBma0f5U6icMwU4y22tZEKyXbN6uw/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-06-09%20at%207.18.58%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nick Frost & Simon Pegg in SPACED Years: 1999-2001 Rating: ****1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>From 1999 to 2001, England's best kept secret was a two-season sitcom titled SPACED that many Americans would discover only after learning director Edgar Wright and actor Simon Pegg didn't create SHAUN OF THE DEAD out of thin air, having had tons of practice with a vehicle also about nostalgia-loving slackers... and Jessica Stevenson, who plays "the other group" leader Yvonne in SHAUN, is not only Pegg's SPACED co-star but his co-writer/creator...The plot's deliberately familiar, liken to THREE'S COMPANY which was, ironically, one of many great American 1970's situation-comedies that, including ALL IN THE FAMILY, originated in England...

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EDGAR WRIGHT DIRECTS THE BRITISH CULT TV-SERIES 'SPACED'

Nick Frost & Simon Pegg in SPACED Years: 1999-2001 Rating: ****1/2 From 1999 to 2001, England's best kept secret was a two-season si...

EDGAR WRIGHT AND SIMON PEGG COMPLETE 'THE WORLD'S END'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh57OxzPj0p6tA_UNv5GaxhFJJJhEXVHnYYyHbe0PLEklwerujuCSFI90mej7MivAlRFKKcjJJZgtVzRgOWk9Q-No6BB-o9LJMCbFoAWGlo-CUoBgkmkQ_gu5yP8qTAslkiGeFVHME2sRjmFCy1DRHc9UFdLEcLtbB9phOdwgl7h8XX9n1hIrCST983lw/s1327/0.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="827" data-original-width="1327" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh57OxzPj0p6tA_UNv5GaxhFJJJhEXVHnYYyHbe0PLEklwerujuCSFI90mej7MivAlRFKKcjJJZgtVzRgOWk9Q-No6BB-o9LJMCbFoAWGlo-CUoBgkmkQ_gu5yP8qTAslkiGeFVHME2sRjmFCy1DRHc9UFdLEcLtbB9phOdwgl7h8XX9n1hIrCST983lw/s16000/0.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nicola Cunningham and Simon Pegg reunite for The World's End Year: 2013 Rating: **1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>British cult-classic director Edgar Wright and his leading man and co-writer Simon Pegg return to the theme of a group of losers forced to battle a horde of... well they're basically zombies liken to SHAUN OF THE DEAD but since THE WORLD'S END is of the INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS science-fiction mold, these monsters are able to move really fast and fight pretty well...Making no sense that five mundane/thirty-something former college buddies could fight like Bruce Lee in far too many mindless action sequences, opposite of what SHAUN and HOT FUZZ perfected throughout its entire first half: fleshing out interesting human characters before thrusting them into inhuman peril...

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EDGAR WRIGHT AND SIMON PEGG COMPLETE 'THE WORLD'S END'

Nicola Cunningham and Simon Pegg reunite for The World's End Year: 2013 Rating: **1/2 British cult-classic director Edgar Wright and his...

EDGAR WRIGHT & SIMON PEGG'S CREATION 'SHAUN OF THE DEAD'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgljmaqT1JsZzu0ccHdQsnJegSVTgYtLujvvneJUl322Yb70EjFfohcvQ5yNLX-kHa7n44T5tOTA0J_XyHcpDsoXxEHqDvbax7E-ciqbJtZYfMgFe-Fiue-zQkQMyKtnumm30uDX8RjfZI2Ame7rWMjGWWXvL7kLZtJQjtCim7XqEnzR77nZ-OGB1FtkA/s1937/1-1%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="928" data-original-width="1937" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgljmaqT1JsZzu0ccHdQsnJegSVTgYtLujvvneJUl322Yb70EjFfohcvQ5yNLX-kHa7n44T5tOTA0J_XyHcpDsoXxEHqDvbax7E-ciqbJtZYfMgFe-Fiue-zQkQMyKtnumm30uDX8RjfZI2Ame7rWMjGWWXvL7kLZtJQjtCim7XqEnzR77nZ-OGB1FtkA/s16000/1-1%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nicola Cunningham as Bloody Mary ignites SHAUN OF THE DEAD Year: 2004 Rates: *****</td></tr></tbody></table>In the first five minutes of SHAUN OF THE DEAD, director Edgar Wright establishes himself as a great filmmaker, and for economical reasons, showcasing a group of five British twenty-somethings... consisting of a couple-in-trouble, the guy's friend that caused the trouble and her own two influential chums... as if they weren't crowded within the same small section of the local hangout pub...This snappy prologue also works not only for the sake of introductory laughs but establishes the characters in what's a character-driven zombie flick that basically reignited a whole new British New Wave...

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EDGAR WRIGHT & SIMON PEGG'S CREATION 'SHAUN OF THE DEAD'

Nicola Cunningham as Bloody Mary ignites SHAUN OF THE DEAD Year: 2004 Rates: ***** In the first five minutes of SHAUN OF THE DEAD, director ...

EDGAR WRIGHT & SIMON PEGG'S BUDDY COP HOMAGE 'HOT FUZZ'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjInrVZYBgF3BsIazIaIM8lMo5_PEAE_qyA7tlQxYczAKPJnSKUi4_9FyB6FehAQVbWdjJgjYi75T4gfRhljNu4Wy6BnQsb9LdI5cTGe0S_MEt9LB7MYviGEZYldGqOA8ammYtkMSm3WJofUIqhbPyRJv27CiTG_Zq4Yp8atTKIMlAlE_qp0hSUfcksyA/s1713/0.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="737" data-original-width="1713" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjInrVZYBgF3BsIazIaIM8lMo5_PEAE_qyA7tlQxYczAKPJnSKUi4_9FyB6FehAQVbWdjJgjYi75T4gfRhljNu4Wy6BnQsb9LdI5cTGe0S_MEt9LB7MYviGEZYldGqOA8ammYtkMSm3WJofUIqhbPyRJv27CiTG_Zq4Yp8atTKIMlAlE_qp0hSUfcksyA/s16000/0.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Simon Pegg and Nick Frost in Edgar Wright's HOT FUZZ Year: 2007 Rating: ***** </td></tr></tbody></table>After British director Edgar Wright and his leading man and writing partner Simon Pegg scored with the zombie comedy SHAUN OF THE DEAD, it was time for straight-out action that, while also loaded with hijinks, takes the cop genre more seriously, especially Pegg's against-type performance as a tough guy instead of the usual shrugging slacker from DEAD and before that he and Wright's pop-culture-referencing sit-com, SPACED...And there are even more nostalgic homages here as HOT FUZZ is a mega-satire on mainstream American buddy-cop flicks ranging from LETHAL WEAPON to POINT BREAK... and for the British it's loaded with iconic cult actors of that country's more cerebral crime genre past...