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The Office - The Complete First Series (BBC Edition)
The Office - The Complete First Series
BBC Edition
Actors: Ricky Gervais, Martin Freeman, Mackenzie Crook, Lucy Davis, Ewen MacIntosh
Directors: Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Television
NR     2003     3hr 0min

Welcome to Wernham Hogg, a suburban paper company where "life is stationery." Critics and fans alike have lauded this hilarious, biting look at everyday office life, told in the mockumentary style of cult comedy classics s...  more »
     
     

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Actors: Ricky Gervais, Martin Freeman, Mackenzie Crook, Lucy Davis, Ewen MacIntosh
Directors: Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant
Creators: Ricky Gervais, Andy Hollis, Stephen Merchant, Anil Gupta, Ash Atalla, Jon Plowman
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Television
Sub-Genres: Comedy, Drama, Comedy, Drama
Studio: BBC Video
Format: DVD - Color - Closed-captioned
DVD Release Date: 10/07/2003
Original Release Date: 01/23/2003
Theatrical Release Date: 01/23/2003
Release Year: 2003
Run Time: 3hr 0min
Screens: Color
Number of Discs: 2
SwapaDVD Credits: 2
Total Copies: 12
Members Wishing: 0
MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Languages: English
Subtitles: English
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LOVE IT!
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Pathetic, mundane, dark, and undeniably hilarious.
Christian Hunter | Austin, TX and Santa Barbara, CA, | 05/25/2004
(5 out of 5 stars)

"From time to time I go swimming for media outside the mainstream. In the UK, this is as popular there as Curb Your Enthusiasm (which shares similar dark appeal) and approaching Friends. I had to take a look, despite the fact that I never really liked British humor.The first episode was more confusing than anything else. Done in a documentary style, it chronicled the goings on within, of all interesting venues, a paper company, and followed the relationships between its completely pathetic inhabitants. The office constituency is led by (co-writer of the show) Ricky Gervais who plays David Brent...a cocktail of extreme insecurity, arrogance, and level of social ineptitude that pushes (but doesn't cross) the envelope of possibility.I'll embarrasingly admit that the unorthodox style took a while to get used to, from no laugh track, to a complete absence of jokes or punch lines. This show plays on a variation of the axiom about "truth being stranger than fiction". Well, after an episode or two, I became totally immersed in the environment, an environment that seemed more like reality than fiction. That threw my switch, I now find this show insanely funny, but the realistic element has a gravity of its own. You start to really care about the characters. Pretty unusual for a comedy series.So, for those of you who haven't seen it, but are curious, I recommend without reservation. For the rest, get this DVD, it's among the few in my collection that I play frequently.Hope this helped.Christian Hunter"
Better than George Michael's latest release
Iain Black | 01/23/2004
(5 out of 5 stars)

"The Office is the funniest thing ever put on DVD and if you don't believe me then you don't know about life and you are dumb. I am a soldier and I know about life and I'm not lying. I know that if you were to crash land on a desert island with nothing but this DVD, you could survive for a long time. You could use the discs as weapons against squirrels and monkeys. You could use them as plates for berries, or as shoes. Although you'd need a bit of tape to make them shoes. And some leather straps and stitching material. The cardboard packaging of the DVDs, which at first glance looks like crap, actually unfolds into a tent-like enclosure that would protect you from the elements of a desert island. And from monkeys. I believe BBC America did this because they care about you. I'm not lying."
The funniestTV import to the States since Monty Python
Kyle Garrett | Chicago,ILL | 10/11/2003
(5 out of 5 stars)

"If it wasn't for "The Office",most people would still think that BBC America only had home and garden shows,EastEnders and Graham Norton on all day.If you've seen the first season's episodes,you already know how great this show is.If not,do yourself a favor and catch up,then buy the DVD and watch it again. Ricky Gervais is so brilliant as the creepily funny David Brent,you WILL actually feel more than a bit uncomfortable and embarrassed for him when he 1)tries too hard to be funny or 2)when he's so clearly unaware of the hole that he's digging that it becomes surreal. And that's the beauty of this show:Take a total idiot meanie of a boss and combine it with the mundane day to day goings-on of working in Corporate(office politics seem to be identical on both sides on the Atlantic) and you immediately recognize the similarities to real life.While David Brent is the linchpin of the show,the characters of Tim,Dawn and Gareth are also essential.A classic play on the office crush subplot(Salesman Tim pines for the lovely but unobtainable receptionist Dawn)grows at a mild but always interesting pace that it reaches a brilliant fever pitch by the second season. And you'd feel bad for Brent's suck-up subordinate Gareth if the practical jokes played on him by Tim weren't so damn funny. Another plus for this series:no laugh track/studio audience to spell out to you what jokes are funny,no gimmicks or situations for the characters to work out(ala "Friends")and no political correctness. It really is reminscent of "Fawlty Towers"or "Curb your Enthusiam"so if you're a fan of either of those,you shouldn't find any problem with "The Office". Again,I say:get the DVD,watch the reruns on BBCAmerica and savor the genius before the Hollywood fat cats make good on their promise and ruin it i.e.making an American version."