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List Price: $24.98 | | Label: BBC Video
Salesrank: 12020
Released: April 20, 2004 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Welcome to Wernham Hogg the paper company a world away from London where life is stationery. Critics and fans alike have lauded this hilarious biting look at the everyday hell of office life as a cult comedy classic in the vein of This Is Spinal Tap and The Larry Sanders Show. Series two marks the final full season of the life in the office.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY UPC: 794051198822
Description of The Office - The Complete Second Series (BBC Edtion):
The second series of the award-winning BBC mockudrama The Office exceeded even the sky-high 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-the-camera assertions concerning his 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.
Meanwhile, Tim Canterbury (Martin Freeman), who can only maintain his sanity by teasing the priggish Gareth Keenan (Mackenzie Crook), continues to wrestle with his yearning for receptionist Dawn Tinsley (Lucy Davis), a sympathetic character persisting in a relationship with a man 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 in a memorable finale to perhaps the greatest British sitcom, besides Fawlty Towers, ever made. All this and Keith too. --David Stubbs
The Office - The Complete Second Series (BBC Edtion) Reviews:
Spot On, Spot On. Different Than American Humor! 
2008-05-22 - I prefer British humor due to it being more dry & straightforward than slapstick American humor. This "Office" has its rights bought out by NBC for the smash-hit (of the same name) here in the states.
Each version has its own ROFL parts, and is a great view for any comedy fan.
The acting is top-notch, and is a must-have for any US Office fan!!
Painfully funny
2008-02-21 - The second series of this brilliant British series is just as funny, though even darker, than the first. The Swindon and Slough branches of Werham Hogg have been combined. David Brent (Ricky Gervais) is now in charge of the combined sections, while Swindon's former boss, Neil (Patrick Baladi), has been placed above David, and he proves to be the kind of perfect boss that David has always fancied himself to be. David's naked jealousy, so transparent to everyone around him, is as painful to watch as it is hilarious.
No show has made me laugh and wince simultaneously so often. Gervais and his co-writer Stephen Merchant have the courage to take these characters to their logical fates, leading to an unusually downbeat, though honest, conclusion for a truly great show. As before, fellow cast members Martin Freeman, MacKenzie Crook, and Lucy Davis contribute to the overall excellence.
good product delivery as usual very delayed 
2008-01-14 - the office (british version) is brilliant, however, the delivery of this product was one month delayed. i bought several things at amazon so far and the products were never delivered in time.
Classic of modern comedy
2007-06-27 - At times, I found the awkwardness of Season 2 a bit forced, but on the whole it was still extremely funny.
Not as funny as season 1 
2007-02-21 - When Swindon merge with Slough, the series slips over the edge of raunch. Trying too hard to be funny, the episodes are often more painful than humorous to watch.
