>But why do you think this is British? It's just very intelligent social commentary that could fit any western society.
It's underpinned with a kind of fatalism, that this is the best you can hope for. The people in the world of peep show are either vicious or trivial, they are designed that way, and this world should be laughed at and faced with resignation. Its more hopeless even than larkin's
In identifying with it you allow it into yourself and assimilate even a bit of its logic, the logic of prison island.
Where once i cringed I just get irritated and depressed, I don't identify with mitchell or webb because they are dead people and i am alive