Office, The Reviews

What is their to say about this amazing show that hasn't already been said? It is without doubt one of the most innovative and funniest comedies to ever been created, with some fabolous characters developed in the same time, namely David Brent. The show is about a "fake" documentary taking place in an Office to show what it is ...  Read the complete review

WHAT WAS IT ABOUT: Ricky Gervais stars in this mockumentary: a fake documentary, that follows the day in day out affairs of a paper merchants in Slough. The premise is pretty dull, but the show is a success because of the odd characters who work there, not leastly David Brent (Gervais), the cringe-worthy, attention seeking boss from hell. The ...  Read the complete review

The last ten years saw the rise of two love-'em-or-hate-'em formats: fly-on-the-wall (Airline, Club Reps, The Osbournes to name but a few) and the new generation spoof treatment of staid TV formats (The Day Today and Knowing Me, Knowing You with Alan Partridge). It was inevitable that somebody would at some stage try to combine these genres. The ...  Read the complete review

As the good people of dooyoo who make an effort to read my ops may have found, I have been inactive in the dooyoo world for a few months. I felt I was beginning to write ops for the sake of it. My first spurt on the sight consisted of many ?forced? ops-opinions with a subject matter that I was not really passionate about. I found myself looking ...  Read the complete review

Office addicts like my sad self will recognise the above title as one of David Brent?s sayings. For the uninitiated it goes something like 'you?ve got to look at the whole pie with regard to the current development situation?' This is the kind of waffly, nonsensical, management speak that he delights in. Before I go any further I ...  Read the complete review

The Office takes everyday life behind a desk...and makes it side-splittingly funny. Ricky Gervais took a terribly mundane concept, and created a brilliantly captivating concept. Nothing much happens in the way of a plot in this series...we follow the lives of normal people working in a paper manufacturing office, in a fly-on-the-wall documentary ...  Read the complete review

The office. Quality Comedy or droll boredom? Well, I think it depends on your work experience. Basically, the Office is a comedy programme shown on BBC 2 that poses as a mock "fly on the wall" documentary about office Life. For 30 minutes per episode it shows various humourous goings on in an office, mainly around the pedantic ...  Read the complete review

The Office is a situation-comedy, in the refreshing guise of fly-on-the-wall parody. But before I strain my vocabulary for words that mean ‘funny’ (I’ll need at least sixteen others to make it through this opinion), allow me to throw out some adjectives you weren’t expect to hear from this genre: Believable. ...  Read the complete review

Some dismiss The Office as not being funny at all. That's their loss, just because it doesn't have a canned laughter soundtrack and completely farcical situations it shouldn't be dismissed. The programme adopts observational humour with a bunch of characters that you just known are based on people in real life. That's because those ...  Read the complete review

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He is the scourge of offices and factories up and down the country - the awful boss who cracks terrible jokes, thinks he is god's gift to women and can still be one of the lads. Everybody knows him and he was brought to life on screen by BBC Two's spoof fly-on-the-wall documentary series The Office in the form of exceptionally ...  Read the complete review

The Office was the surprise comedy hit of last year, a spoof documentary set in the Slough offices of a paper merchant called Wernham Hogg, which was so true to life that it was exceptionally difficult for the first episode or so to tell if we were actually seeing a real documentary or not. It was shot in standard documentary mode, with ...  Read the complete review

You might think that the television comedy market is already saturated, even with 'mockumertaries' or faked docusoaps. You probably would not have predicted that another one of these would appear, seemingly from nowhere, in autumn last year and blow our minds. But the Office, Ricky Gervaise's new project did just that. The ...  Read the complete review

I must be one of the many thousands of people or more that just love The Office. When it first came on our screen, it was the by far and still is the best comedy on TV. The first time I watched it I thought it was ?Reality TV? type film where they had camera?s in the office. But, no it was a comedy drama. I have just loved watching it ever ...  Read the complete review

This has to be one of the best comedies for a long time. The Office is a comedy show that has you in stitches. Filmed in documentary style there?s no background audience it follows the goings on in The Office. Written and directed by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Mercant. Ricky used to be in the 11 0?Clock show. He plays the boss Ricky ...  Read the complete review

If you work in an office you or you have done in the past you have definitely met one of these characters. Sarcastic, sharp and totally in touch with the modern day office. I think it was the same guy that created Black Adder who created the office. The comedy isn't as dark as Black Adder but it is twice as funny. I found you ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

The Office is a comedy which is, unsuprisingly, set in an office. It was originaly shown on BBC2 earlier this year and is now being repeated on Play UK. Those of you who have seen 'orrible on BBC2 will obviously approach another sitcom from this channel with fear. Fortunately it is infinitely better than Johnny Vaughan's turkey. ...  Read the complete review

Mainwaring, Fawlty, Rigsby, Blackadder, Partridge, Lister, Rimmer, Jim Royle, Patsy Stone, there is a seemingly endless list of irredeemably awful comic creations who are sent to terrorise our senses and leave us thanking our lucky stars that we live in real life rather than sitcom land. And now, we are presented with quite possibly the ...  Read the complete review