10 TV Shows With No Redeemable Characters

10. Peep Show

Everyone is either a Mark or a Jeremy to some degree. It’s not something we’d like to admit, but the two fragile, selfish husks at the centre of this seminal flatshare comedy represent modern society at large, warts and all.

Over nine seasons of Peep Show, we witnessed Mark and Jeremy subject one another to every atrocity imaginable while still sharing the same square footage of a London high rise. The genius of Peep Show is in slowly illustrating that these two men, on the surface so different, are actually crippled by the exact same flaws - non-existent self esteem, overthinking, stubbornness, an eroding sense of morality.

The supporting characters are no better, either, from the criminality of Super Hans to the indecent proposing of Johnson, Sophie’s inept stabs at motherhood and Big Suze’s complete disregard for anyone on a lower social strata than her.

The (slightly lame) finale of Peep Show illustrated its ultimate thesis perfectly. Mark and Jeremy can by this point barely stand the sight of one another, but they’re doomed to spend the rest of eternity sniping away from the (dis)comfort of their couch. There’s no changing them.