Reviewer
Some guy |
Build-up 4 |
Kissing 5 |
Love scenes |
Episode overall
5 |
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Coupling can be described as an English, smuttier, version of Friends. This episode is the first in the new season. Basically the events and perspectives (in this episode) of each character interweave with each other to make up the full story.
Note: This should not be confused with the US version and you should remove all memory of it had you seen that version.
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Actresses:
Gina Bellman & Sarah Alexander
In a pleasantly long scene (or scenes as the camera kept flickering back to them) Alexander "rescues" Bellman from her blind date by engaging in a very passionate snog that...well...it's like that second kiss between Alice and Dana in the last episode of The L Word, only longer than you would think. Alexander then breaks off leaving Bellman aroused, evident as she says "My ankles are feeling funny..." or something like that (you have to watch the episode fully to understand that line).
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That scene really makes a climatic finish to this excellent opening episode. It ties all the couple's stories together, you understand the whys, whats,hows, whens of this episode. There are times when you think the kiss is going to end but it doesn't, definetly not a ratings grabber.
Although the kiss was only out of Alexander helping Bellman out it looked pretty convincing to me. I'm not sure whether Bellman is a bisexual or a bisexual straight woman though as she does have this habit of being suggestive and Steve did say in a previous episode "You know how Jane [Bellman] is - she swings both ways!". But then she hasn't actually been with a woman. Alexander is straight that's for sure.
All i can say is that you watch the whole series regardless of the kiss in this episode for the show is just great all-round.
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