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Drooling on the Pillow

Saturday, March 26, 2005

The Office Reprise 

I'm a big fan of The Office the BBC comedy that committed itself to term limits and, unfortunately, stuck to it's guns, running only two seasons. I approached the NBC version with trepidation. Had to watch, very low expectations.

I do think Steve Carell is funny, in an kind of horrifying way, and I do think, of all the Brit comedies that have been butchered by US networks, this one had the best fit of any since All in the Family. But still.

It could have been a lot worse. What they did was recreate the original to the point that you really couldn't tell very easily if they were using the same set. They have the same set of characters in the same relationships right down to the rumpled hair of the sympathetic young salesman. I've read the grudgingly positive reviews that say that it takes about three episodes for the show to start finding it's own identity so it seems like they wanted to show that they could do The Office first.

Steve Carell will never be as good as Ricky Gervais, but he's probably good enough and I'll have to keep watching.
Posted by: Sluggo / 6:13 PM
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