You know I had to start with the show that launched the careers of Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, and Nick Frost, who are now in the final chapter of their Three Flavours of Cornetto trilogy (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, The World’s End). Spaced is, and I mean this, the best “nerd” show ever. When people tell me The Big Bang Theory is the best “nerd show” ever, I want to big bang them in the brain with a hammer. Sorry, I have violence issues.
Spaced is a show about two friends who need to pretend to be a couple to be able to afford the flat they want. The couple in this case is Tim (played by Simon Pegg) and Daisy (played by Jessica Hynes, who deserves to be WAY more famous than she is) and the flat they want is in a building full of a motley crew of personalities, the most memorable being the war obsessed Mike Watt, played with passion by Nick Frost.
What made the show work so well was the genuine camaraderie between the cast, and the constant flow of nerd references, from anti-Jar Jar speeches before they were cool, to video game references only the nerdiest of us will get, Spaced is not only one of the best shows out of the Britain. It is one of the best shows ever made.