The Office

2000s British tv comedy series

The Office tv comedy series review
The Office tv comedy series review
The Office tv comedy series review
The Office tv comedy series review

A mockumentary about life in a regional office of paper merchants in Slough - it’s manager with no people skills and employees trying to keep their sanity doing dull jobs.



This series have built up a number of fans and equaly high number of people that find it extremely boring and incomprehensible. And to be honest both of the sides are right. The Office was a original idea (f.e. to use the format of mockumentary), but on the other hand it used one of the comic tools (called pregnant pause) so often it’s become pretty much only tool to be used. I mean it’s just like creating a series filled with knock-knock jokes - after a while it’s become boring and predictible.

There is also the plot of feelings between Tim and Dawn mixed in the episodes, which was sweet in a way, but also after a while it become a little bit boring. The Office have suffered from problem that can be find in f.e. 30 Rock, where only 3-4 characters are fully developed and the rest of the staff is just blured, nameless and speachless background. Same routines have been repeated over and over again (f.e. David was showing around new employees 3 times during first season that lasted only 6 episodes).

Summary: good idea, not bad drama part of the plot (the sercet love), but with not enough comedy potential used to become funny for larger audience. Also Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant have created The Office (US), which is longer and more diluted version of the basic series which made the original version looking a little better, but still comparing to other British series from same time (f.e. IT Crowd) The Office just wasn’t up to it.


Rating

The Office comedy series2.8

Funny

The Office funny2 / 10

Entertaining

The Office entertaining2 / 5

Characters

The Office characters2 / 5

Nonrepetitive

The Office nonrepetitive1 / 5



Seasons of The Office

2001 Season 1
2002 Season 2
2003 Christmas Specials


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