The Office - An American Workplace [US] - Season 1 Details

[Highly rated reviewer]

Dumb Americanization of British comedy genius.

Being a huge fan of the Ricky Gervais original,I honestly approached this with an open mind.

Suffice to say:

THIS DUMB,UN-FUNNY & UTTERLY POINTLESS REMAKE IS SO GLARINGLY INFERIOR TO THE ENGLISH ORIGINAL IN EVERY IMAGINABLE WAY THAT I'M AT-A-TOTAL-LOSS AS TO WHY EVEN MR GERVAIS ALLOWED HIS NAME TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH THIS DRIVEL.to wit: It's horrendous. Ye I have forewarned thee!

it's true, it starts slowly and it's difficult to compare it to the 'real' office

but this is a series that grows. it's weird at first to spot the original characters and the slightly morphed Americanized versions, but try to get past that and you will discover a real gem. With time (especially the later series which bear absolutely no relation to the British original), this really does become a work of genius. Steve CarelI - who is wonderfully dour as the suicidal uncle in Little Miss Sunshine - plays Michael (the David Brent character) as a hopelessly enthusiasic person, heading towards a doom that he never manages to see coming. Whilst his sidekick, Dwight, is a very weird twist on the Gareth character. Watch this series to get to know them and prepare to be blown away by Seasons 2 & 3. Perhaps even better than Gervais, certainly up there with Larry David as the best US comedy of the century so far.