The Office (2001)
- Genre
- sitcom, mockumentary, pseudo-documentary
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Length
- 2 seasons, 14 episodes
- Rated
- TV-MA
- Rating
- 7.8 of 10 from 965 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this series is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This British sitcom shows the daily lives of office workers at a paper company in Slough. The manager, David Brent, is awkward and self important, causing discomfort for his employees.
cringeydryawkwardobservationalcomedicmundanesatiricaldeadpan
What happens
The Office is a British mockumentary television sitcom first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC Two on 9 July 2001. Created, written and directed by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, it follows the day-to-day lives of office employees in the Slough branch of the fictional Wernham Hogg paper company. Gervais also starred in the series as the central character, David Brent. When it first aired on BBC Two, ratings were relatively low, but it has since become one of the most successful of all British comedy exports. As well as being aired internationally on BBC Worldwide and channels such as BBC Prime, BBC America, and BBC Canada, it has been sold to broadcasters in over 80 countries, including ABC1 in Australia, The Comedy Network in Canada, TVNZ in New Zealand, and the pan-Asian satellite channel Star World, based in Hong Kong. It was aired in the United States on BBC America from 2001 to 2016, and later on Cartoon Network's late night programming block Adult Swim from 2009 to 2011. Two six-episode series were made, followed by a two-part Christmas special. The series centres around themes of social clumsiness, the trivialities of human behaviour, self-importance and conceit, frustration, desperation and fame. The Office is considered to be one of the best television series of the 21st century and of all time. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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