GREAT GREAT BRITISH COMEDY (Office, The)

Name: Miss Coghlan

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Product:	Office, The
Date:	27.10.01 (149 review reads)
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Advantages: Great Jokes, Great Characters, Well Observed

Disadvantages: None!!!!!!

Currently showing on Sky Channel Play UK, Friday nights 9.40.
If you work in an office, you will find watching "The Office" very bizarre. It could be a fly on the wall in any office across Britain. The characters are VERY real and very funny. You can spot people from your own work or local pub.
The main character in "The Office" (TO)is the office manager. When I first heard people talking about TO and this character, they described him as "awful". I was expecting him to be a nasty character but he isn't, what is "awful" is what he says. He tries SO hard to be politically correct and cool, that it acts in reverse and he says the wrong thing. I have never cringed so much, I even have to turn over as I am that embarrased. He is a great character. A great scene is when he takes over a Team Building Exercise, the training guy nearly has a nervous breakdown.
Other funny character is an ex-TA (Territorial Army) guy. A great scene with this guy is when the office manager opens his heart to him and tells him that he had to visit his elderly father the night before because he was convinced that there was a sniper on the co-op roof. The ex-TA guy (or "death" as I call him- watch it and you'll know why) then gives a break down of why the co-op roof is a perfect position, very sympathetic.
Then there is the character I most identify with, the graduate who is pushed about, but is probably the most intelligent person there. He, along with other background character, act as a grounding for the stranger character so that the programme doesn't become too comical and unreal (Operation Good Guys).
You'll love this if you enjoy comedies such as The Royal Family or Operation Good Guys. It is very good observational humour. It grasps the office politics, the office flirting and the office struggles.
Give it a go, you'll love it.
Remember....
Play UK, Friday nights 9.40
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