Peep Show, my beloved Peep Show, jumped the shark the moment Mark and Jeremy ate a pet dog. Many won't agree with that but I really believe it. It's almost as if Quantocking is the last absolute golden episode maintaining Peep Show universe and by Quantocking II we're in some horribly deformed alternate reality. (Although the moment Mark gives terminal illness reasoning for the failed conference is perhaps the prelude over-the-top moment to this)
This also coincides with a change in director, Tristram Shapeero to Becky Martin. The latter of which has directed every episode since Quantocking. Together with the false flat set and losing the headcams for "better quality", the heart of Peep Show is alterted. Zany quotable lines over banal Seinfeld-show-about-nothing character driven things has made it a show I care little about. "How thick is wall?", "Depends" to Hans being shot in the rear with a ball bearing? It's some journey this show has taken! But like post Larry David Seinfeld, the show is becoming an out of control cliche-fest of implausible nonsense. Series 8, despite fleeting moments, has been the horrible realisation that series 6 and 7 always threatened to become.
End it with series 9, bring back Tristram Shapeero to direct the final episode with Mark, Jeremy, Hans and Sophie on trial with every character ever in the show appearing in the final episode...