Audience Rating: Parental Guidance
Binding: DVD
EAN: 5014503124823
Format: PAL
Label: 2 Entertain Video
Languages: EnglishOriginal Language
Manufacturer: 2 Entertain Video
Number Of Discs: 2
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: 2 Entertain Video
Region Code: 2
Release Date: June 14, 2004
Running Time: 180 minutes
Studio: 2 Entertain Video
Theatrical Release Date: September 26, 2000

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Editorial Review:

Amazon.co.uk Review:
The second series of Marion & Geoff had an awful lot to live up to. That it might be as good as the mini masterpieces of pathos (and bathos) that made up the first series was all any viewer could reasonably expect; that it actually surpasses them is testament to the achievement of cowriters Rob Brydon and Hugo Blick. These six episodes (plus an hour-long special on the second disc) provide a window into an all-too-painfully familiar world of betrayal, deceit and family disintegration, as seen through the eternally optimistic eyes of Keith, a man who against all the evidence of his own senses somehow manages to retain his respect for the dignity of human nature.

Keith has put his mini-cab days behind him, and is now gainfully employed as a chauffeur to a wealthy American family. In between his duties delivering the young boy to school--and dodging the family's two Dobermans on the lawn--Keith unwittingly forms a personal bond with the boy's mother, Catherine. Slowly Keith is awakened to the truth about her unhappiness, and the activities of her wayward husband Peter, a self-proclaimed film producer much given to auditioning young actresses on his casting couch. Simultaneously, relations with Marion and his "little smashers" are improving, thanks to regular family meetings at motorway service stations. Mirroring events with his employers, Marion and Geoff are heading for trouble too, though once again Keith is the last person to realise what's really going on. Poignant personal revelations follow, leaving Keith with a surprisingly difficult choice at the end.

As before, the joy in Brydon's deadpan monologues to camera as he drives around the streets of London is not what he tells you, but what is revealed by implication. A disastrous night out with Geoff and Peter, for example, contrasts their vicious, self-serving natures with Keith's naive, almost heroic good nature: in a quandary about parking in a disabled space he remarks tellingly, "I'm not disabled, I'm disadvantaged." Marion & Geoff turns out to be a celebration of modest decency in the midst of a painfully cynical world.

On the DVD: The six episodes are presented on the first disc, though unlike Series 1 there's no commentary. On the second disc is the hour-long special episode "A Small Summer Party", in which we see in heartbreaking detail the day when Keith found out about Marion and Geoff (and we finally get to see the famous couple, with Geoff played by a not entirely unexpected guest star). --Mark Walker




Rating: - Bring back Steve Coogan please!!
Am I really the only member of the general public who can see Rob Brydon for what he really is? (i.e. the poor man's Steve Coogan - just as Keith Barrett is the poor man's Alan Partridge). I mean, come on, the man can’t even have his ideas - he has to copy!

I mean sure, during a 30 minute episode of any show featuring Brydon I'll manage to force out a laugh or two (if I'm very lucky & feeling generous! - hence the second star), but basically he just isn’t ... Read More

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Rating: - A sad and beautiful story
I was surprised that there was a second series made of Marion & Geoff as the first instalment was as close to perfection as could be and the story was came to a satisfactory and heart-warming close. So I was cynically expecting this to be a disappointment.

It wasn't.

However, it is noticeably different.

Due to the extended length of each episode, the stress is firmly placed in telling the story, as opposed to try to slot in jokes in Keith's monologue. And the story ... Read More

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Rating: - moving, funny and sad
This is a wonderful achievment from the BBC, a one-man show that tells everything without really telling anything.
Even though the feeling was that it is not sutable for a 30 minute episdoe, the show does takes you to the wonderful wierd world of Kieth, the man who little by little realizes that he can no longer disregard the truth around him - like he did on the 1st season.
To me, the 1st season is a masterpiece, because it was short, powerful and funny as hell - and some of that disappeared ... Read More

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Rating: - Undeniably devastating: funny, sad and poetically beautiful
I caught a few of the first series of Marion and Geoff when they aired in 10-minute late night slots on BBC2. At first, like almost everyone, and entirely as intended by writer/actor Rob Brydon and director Hugo Blick, I wasn't sure what to make of the programme. Like The Office, but before that genius programme was ever seen, it confused reality with fiction, and showed comedy and sadness in the same shot. The second Alan Partridge series combines this a little, but is a heavy caricature, and nearly always ... Read More

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