The Office 2001-2003 BBC 14 episodes. ( first watched 2001, then about 2010) The boredom and tedium is highlighted in this "mockumentary" about the staff of a paper merchants in Slough. The setting is inessential but the interactions aren't. Tim one of the characters states "you spend more time walking the same carpet with your colleagues, then you do with your own family". There are two principal story lines, one featuring the office manager and the other being the tentative relationship between receptionist Dawn and sales rep Tim. The show is a painful watch, see the awkward and stilted conversations be the characters. It is painful but out of this comes, funny lines and very real situations. The cliches and bullying is very real. A lot of the humour is dated but because of this it highlights how fashions change and not always for the better.
It's expertly written and acted. It is a classic and only fails when the series moves away from Slough and intervenes in the storyline. Despite my reservations it still gets 10/10.
It's expertly written and acted. It is a classic and only fails when the series moves away from Slough and intervenes in the storyline. Despite my reservations it still gets 10/10.