The Office - Complete (Box Set)

The Office - Complete (Box Set)

Comedy - Director: Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over more

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The Office - The Complete First Series [2001] The Office - The Complete First Series [2001]
It feels both inaccurate and inadequate to describeThe Officeas a comedy. On a superficial ... more
level, it disdains all the conventions of
television sitcoms: there are no punch lines, no
jokes, no laugh tracks and no cute happy endings.
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thinking of as funny. Most of the fervently
devoted fan base that the programme acquired
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 Slough paper merchant,The Officeis
filmed in the style of a reality television
programme. The writing is subtle and deft, the
acting wonderful and the characters beautifully
drawn: the cadaverous team leader Gareth, a
paradigm of Andy McNab's readership; the monstrous
sales rep, Chris Finch; and the decent but
long-suffering everyman Tim, 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 cowriter Ricky Gervais. Brent will
become a name as emblematic for a particular kind
of British grotesque as Alan Partridge or Basil
Fawlty, but he is a deeper character than either.
Partridge and Fawlty are exaggerations of reality,
and therefore safely comic figures. Brent is as
appalling as only reality can be. --Andrew
MuellerOn the DVDThe Office, Series 1is tastefully
packaged as a two-disc set appropriately adorned
with John Betjeman's poem "Slough". The special
features occupy the second disc and consist of a
laid-back 39-minute documentary entitled "How I
Made The Office by Ricky Gervais", with co-writer
Stephen Merchant and the cast contributing. Here
we discover that Gervais spends his time on set
"mucking around and annoying people", and that
actress Lucy Davis (Dawn) is the daughter of
Jasper Carrott; as well as seeing parts of the
original short film and the original BBC pilot
episode; plus we get to enjoy many examples of the
cast corpsing throughout endless retakes. There
are also a handful of deleted scenes, none of
which were deleted because they weren't funny.
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The Office - The Complete Second Series [2001] The Office - The Complete Second Series [2001]
The second series of the award-winning BBC2 mockudramaThe Officeexceeded even the sky-high ... more
standards of the first. Indeed, it ventured beyond
caricature and satire, touching on the very edge
of darkness. Ricky Gervais was once again
excruciatingly superb as David Brent, a subtly
shaded modern English comic grotesque in the
desperate and self-deluding tradition of Alan
Partridge and Basil Fawlty.In this series,
however, Brent's to-camera assertions concerning
his man-management qualities and executive
capabilities are seriously challenged when the
Slough and Swindon branches are merged and his
former Swindon equivalent Neil takes over as area
manager. To compensate Brent cultivates his
pathologically mistaken image of himself as an
entertainer/motivator/comedian whose stage happens
to be the workplace. This culminates in a
comically disastrous motivational session ending
with a sing-along of Tina Turner's "Simply the
Best", which is greeted, typically, with stunned,
appalled silence.Meanwhile, Tim, who can only
maintain his sanity by teasing the priggish,
puddingbowl-haired Gareth, continues to wrestle
with his yearning for receptionist Dawn, a
sympathetic character persisting with a
relationship with a yobbish bloke about whom she
still maintains unspoken reservations. As ever,
it's the awkward, reality TV-style pauses and
silences, the furtive, meaningful and unmet
glances across the emotional gulf of the open-plan
office, that say it all here.As for Brent, his own
breakdown is prefaced by a moment of hideous
hilarity--an impromptu office dance, a mixture of
"Flashdance and MC Hammer" as Brent describes it,
but in reality bad beyond description. Then, when
his fate is sealed, he at last reveals himself as
a humiliated and broken man in a memorable finale
to perhaps the greatest British sitcom,
besidesFawlty Towers, ever made. All this and
Keith too. --David StubbsOn the DVD:The Office,
Series 2is a single-disc release unlike the more
generous Series 1. Extra features are enjoyable
nonetheless. Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant
feature in a gleefully shambolic video
diary--highlights of which include Gervais
flicking elastic bands at his cowriter and taping
their editor to his swivel chair. The ubiquitous
Gervais also mockingly introduces some outtakes
(mostly of him corpsingthroughout dozens of takes)
and a series of deleted scenes, notably of Gareth
arriving in his horrendous cycle shorts. --Mark
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The Office - The Complete First Series [2001] The Office - The Complete First Series [2001]
It feels both inaccurate and inadequate to describeThe Officeas a comedy. On a superficial ... more
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 that the programme acquired
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 Slough paper merchant,The Officeis
filmed in the style of a reality television
programme. The writing is subtle and deft, the
acting wonderful and the characters beautifully
drawn: the cadaverous team leader Gareth, a
paradigm of Andy McNab's readership; the monstrous
sales rep, Chris Finch; and the decent but
long-suffering everyman Tim, 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 cowriter Ricky Gervais. Brent will
become a name as emblematic for a particular kind
of British grotesque as Alan Partridge or Basil
Fawlty, but he is a deeper character than either.
Partridge and Fawlty are exaggerations of reality,
and therefore safely comic figures. Brent is as
appalling as only reality can be. --Andrew
MuellerOn the DVDThe Office, Series 1is tastefully
packaged as a two-disc set appropriately adorned
with John Betjeman's poem "Slough". The special
features occupy the second disc and consist of a
laid-back 39-minute documentary entitled "How I
Made The Office by Ricky Gervais", with co-writer
Stephen Merchant and the cast contributing. Here
we discover that Gervais spends his time on set
"mucking around and annoying people", and that
actress Lucy Davis (Dawn) is the daughter of
Jasper Carrott; as well as seeing parts of the
original short film and the original BBC pilot
episode; plus we get to enjoy many examples of the
cast corpsing throughout endless retakes. There
are also a handful of deleted scenes, none of
which were deleted because they weren't funny.
--Mark Walker
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The Office in it's wondrous entirety
Review of The Office - Complete (Box Set) by stephen_logan

Advantages: Funniest British comedy in years
Disadvantages: Only two series and two specials long

Nearly two years after the demise of the office it remains a relevant and still much talked about televisual phenomenon. Nothing about this DVD collection is spectacular, from the mundane packaging to the fairly standard extras. But these are minor qualms and quibbles, the genius of this collection does not lie in mere aesthetics like so many others out there (naming no names, I don't know any), the joy is in the 7 ½ of epic comedy hours contained ...
...merchants in Slough, herein lies the genius of The Office. The office headed by the hapless David Brent (Ricky Gervais) is an incongruous mix of everyday folk with more than slightly exaggerated personality traits. Gareth (Mackenzie Crook) the typically over anxious TA lieutenant with delusions of power in a small office environment. Tim (Martin Freeman) the practical joker who's every move is frustrated by those around him, not least his advances ... Read review

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Review of The Office - Complete (Box Set) by Xanshin

Advantages: Superb performances, lots of laughs
Disadvantages: The intentionally cringe-worthy sense of humour isn't to everyone's taste

Quite simply the best British comedy since Fawlty Towers. Ricky Gervais and his stunning cast produce outrageously funny moments in the television mockumentary of a paper merchants in Slough. Gervais plays the erratic and egotistical boss, David Brent, who is on a permanent quest to entertain his employees, usually at the expense of the company. The sub-stories, such as the love triangle between Dawn, Tim and Lee also add to the series. The first ...
...is brilliantly capped off with the two extended episodes, which originally aired as Christmas specials on the BBC. Quite simple the most complete and most compelling comedy series you are ever likely to see, and with perhaps the best ending to a comedy series in history. Gervais and co-writer Steve Merchant deserve all the praise and awards they received for this. Simple a masterpiece. ... Read review

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I love it!
Review of The Office - Complete (Box Set) by josie.marie

Advantages: the laughs and love of characters
Disadvantages: cost if you dont buy the box set

Definately worth buying the box set for the difference in price you would pay buying them seperately and then later realising you want them all! You have to stick with the first two episodes to get really into it. I would say i enjoyed series 2 the best but im not sure if its because its better or because i felt i understood the characters more by then, i think if i watched series 1 again now i'd enjoy it just as much. I never caught it when it was ... Read review

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The Office - Complete (Box Set)

Main specs

Actor(s): Ricky Gervais, Martin Freeman, Mackenzie Crook, Lucy Davis

Director(s): Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant

Genre: Comedy

Classification: 15 years and over

Running Time: 7 hours 17 minutes

Video Category: Television

Country Of Origin: United Kingdom

Release details

DVD Region: Region 2 (Europe)

Studio(s): 2 ENTERTAIN VIDEO; SONY DADC

Release date: 22/11/2004

No of Discs: 4

Catalogue No: BBCDVD 1502

Barcode: 5014503150228

DVD Description

A documentary film crew follows David Brent, regional manager of the Slough branch of Paper Merchants, Wernham Hogg as he and his 'team' go about their business. As David works he manages to alienate, belittle, embarrass and offend just about everyone who works with him... Features the all the episodes from Series One and Two, plus the two Christmas Specials.

Languages

Main Language: English

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