The Office - Series 1 and 2 (DVD) Reviews

The Office is what made Ricky Gervais famous. It's not hard to see why as this show could be one of the best British comedy's ever thanks to the brilliant wring of Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant. The office is about the daily work lives of office employees in Wernham Hogg Paper Company. Its a mockumentary which means its like a ...  Read the complete review

It feels both inaccurate and inadequate to describe The Office as a comedy. On a superficial level, it disdains all the conventions of television sitcoms: there are no punch lines, no jokes, no laugh tracks, and no cute happy endings. More profoundly, it's not what we're used to thinking of as funny. Most of the fervently devoted fan base watched ...  Read the complete review

The Office is definitely in my Top 5 comedy series of all time - I have watched it so many times I can quote from most of the episodes. I think it's pure genius. Original, funny, cringe-worthy and true to life. Perfect comedy! Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant make a superb writing team. The outlandish childlike humour of Gervais and ...  Read the complete review

There are so many good DVD box-sets out there these days, that it makes sense to buy seasons in 'multi-packs' like this one, where you can get both seasons of the Office for just £27 on amazon. In 2001, the face of TV was changed forever by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, creators or 'The Office'. It's a half hour show, with six ...  Read the complete review

This has to be "probably" the greatest comedy series, certainly of its time, and maybe all time. The series broke new ground in comedy terms as it began to spoof the plethora of fly on the wall documentaries that were assaulting our screens at the time. The team of Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant have gone on to write ...  Read the complete review

The Office is one of those rare TV programs that make you cringe and laugh at the same time. Everybody knows a David Brent and that, for me is the main reason why this works as well as it does. The Office DVD box set features all 12 episodes spanning series 1 and 2 in all their comedic glory and there are some good bonus extras on here ...  Read the complete review

ricky gervais and stephen merchants award winning sitcom the office is without a doubt my favourite comedy of all time. the sitcom is based in slough and is a mock fly on the wall documentry about the daily lives of office workers in a paper factory. sounds very boring doesn't it, but i can asure you it isn't. this started out very slow with only ...  Read the complete review

It is possible that "The Office" may be regarded as the greatest sitcom for many years to come. In writing directing and starring in this work of genius, Stephen Merchant and Ricky Gervais propelled themselves from comedy obscurity to superstar status on both sides of the Atlantic. Initially appearing on BBC2 under a ...  Read the complete review

Ricky Gervais and Steve Merchant made a show called The Office. I guess they had no idea exactly how massively recognisable it would become. David Brent (Gervais), boss of the Slough branch of fictional paper merchants Wernham Hogg is now an instantly recognisable character, and the DVD of the first series became the BBC's best ever selling comedy ...  Read the complete review

The spoof documentary series ‘The Office,’ written and directed by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, followed the highs and lows (concentrating mainly on the humiliating lows) of life at an unimpressive paper merchants in Slough. The filming style was scarily believable, the humour was original and very successful and the characters were so ...  Read the complete review