The Office - The Complete First Series (BBC Edition) (Region 1)

The Office - The Complete First Series (BBC Edition) pictures

Manufacturer : BBC Video
Release date : 7 October 2003
Number of discs : 2
EAN : 9780790781655
UPC : 794051181527
DVD Region : 1

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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 such as This is Spinal Tap and The Larry Sanders Sho Product Description
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 such as This is Spinal Tap and The Larry Sanders Show. The show revolves around David Brent (an instant classic character widely compared to Basil Fawlt of Fawlty Towers) the oblivious general manager who instigates petty office rivalries. The wince-worthy Brent still considers himself "a friend first and a boss second...probably an entertainer third." Work is hell...but one man's misery is another man's hilarious home video hit. Welcome to The Office.Running Time: 210 min.System Requirements:Run Time: 180 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS UPC: 794051181527 Manufacturer No: E1815

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It feels both inaccurate and inadequate to describe The Office as a comedy. On a superficial level, it disdains all the conventions of television sitcoms: there are no punch lines, no jokes, no laugh tracks, and no cute happy endings. More profoundly, it's not what we're used to thinking of as funny. Most of the fervently devoted fan base watched with a discomfortingly thrilling combination of identification and mortification. The paradox is that its best moments are almost physically unwatchable.

Set in the offices of a fictional British paper merchant, The Office is filmed in the style of a reality television show. The writing is subtle and deft, the acting wonderful, and the characters beautifully drawn: the cadaverous team leader Gareth (Mackenzie Crook); the monstrous sales rep, Chris Finch (Ralph Ineson); and the decent but long-suffering everyman Tim (Martin Freeman), whose ambition and imagination have been crushed out of him by the banality of the life he dreams uselessly of escaping. The show is stolen, as it was intended to be, by insufferable office manager David Brent, played by codirector-cowriter Ricky Gervais. Brent will become a name as emblematic for a particular kind of British grotesque as Basil Fawlty, but he is a deeper character. Fawlty is an exaggeration of reality, and therefore a safely comic figure. Brent is as appalling as only reality can be. --Andrew Mueller

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