The Office Series 1 (Wide Screen) > Reviews > my dream office

Author's product rating:   

Did you enjoy it?	Loved it
Story	Outstanding
Characters / Performances	Outstanding
Special Effects	Outstanding
How does it compare to similar films?	Outstanding

Advantages:	hilarious
Disadvantages:	it only has 2 series

Recommend to potential buyers:

yes

Full review

This BAFTA award winning comedy is the genius creation of Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant.
The basic concept of this comedy, is that a film crew is filming an ordinary office whilst they work, however of course we know that its not real, but I must admit when your watching it you do forget that its just a comedy and not a real office.

The main character to this must be David Brent, played by Ricky Gervais he is the boss at the slough paper merchant and he’s also a guy who thinks he’s funnier than he actually is, however how irritating he seems to be, there are quite a few scene in which we feel more than a bit sorry for the guy.

The only guy that seems to think David Brent is funny, is a character called Gareth, this is a character that is defiantly fun to laugh at, and trust me, you will defiantly do some laughing at.

Two other main characters in this sit com are Tim, and dawn. These two are obviously in love and its fun to see how their relationship develops as the series goes on.

So there’s many storylines happening in this first great series of the office, the main one being that slough is currently being downsized and there are possibilities of redundancies, and there is also the story line of the Tim and dawn and their love for each other.

My personal favourite episode of the first series, is the fourth episode into this series. This is the one where all the staff are having staff training and is just hilarious mainly due to all the songs sung by Ricky on his guitar.

Ok now for some info on the actual DVD, well firstly ill mention that this is actually 2 disks, which is just really good value for money.

On the first disk then are the 6 episodes in the series, all of which are around 30 minutes long.
On the second disk, are the special features, these are behind the scenes and deleted scenes, behind the scenes just follows Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant and some of the other cast members through the writing processes and the acting and filming processes too, some of this is really funny to see and it makes you wonder how they ever got some work done.

Altogether this is an amazing sitcom, it is defiantly worth the watch and I would actually rate this as one of the top 10 sitcoms ever made.