Too close to the truth! (Office, The)

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Product:	Office, The
Date:	16.01.02 (13 review reads)
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Advantages: Great sharp new comedy, Ricky Gervais, Funny!

Disadvantages: Repeats now

If you didn’t catch the Office first time around then take a peak at the reruns on Monday nights at ten p.m. BBC2 .So critically acclaimed was the first series that the overly agitated TV critics who are forever moaning abut repeats have actually put a recommended next to this one second time around. Pretty unheard of for a repeat in this pundit generation.
Its star is the only funny turn from the third series of the Eleven O’clock Show in Ricky Gervais of the tubby face and cynical humor.

It’s set in your typical small business office with an uncanny realistic feel and portrayal of the sexual and everyday politics that makes the day worth while. Most of you will instantly relish and recognized the characters full of self-importance and the off the cuff remarks that fly in a place like this.
The pretty girl in the office getting all the attention. The groveling employee looking for promotion or the little Hitler that does the top mans dirty work.

Gervais character though is not running the company with a tight belt and lets his employees walk all over him as long as he’s allowed to play the clown and be one of the lads, and lasses. Although being one of the girl’s means trying to get up their baby tubes every second of the day.
The jokes are sharp and the sardonic delivery of Gervais is spot on as he manages to turn an irrelevant everyday situation into a matter of high strategic importance.
Like the opening sequence where he s talking to a guy in his office about what seems very relevant to a major contract with big words and pretentious spiele,but its just for the fork lift job and he’s the man to hook up young Darren for the job.

No one gets laid off when the order comes from head office for staff cuts and any in house discipline is buying the next round of drinks at the bar for the boss.
The staff is a mix of bored graduates waiting for proper employment or people stuck in a rut
and the security of a job with their own parking space and the nine to five familiarity.

The real attraction to this show is Gervais brilliant performance as the ambivalent phlegmatic boss and the reality of the everyday situations and nuances that occur in everyday office life.
It recently won three awards at the superb British comedy awards and its in line for a few more if the repeats pick up yet more converts.

Usually when a new sitcom comes out its like the guy you don’t recognize in Star Trek and he’s wearing that off-green uniform that only means one thing, death as soon as he’s in shot. Well this one doesn’t get a blast of Kirks laser gun or being vaporized by a Romulan battle cruiser as its one in a hundred, a decent new British sitcom.

If you are cringing oat how bad the new Big Train is without the last cast. Or you are fed up with Middle Class front room sitcoms on ITV then give this a look second time around and I reckon you will be hooked fairly quickly if you have more than one brain cell. WWF fans need not apply…..

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