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List Price: $59.98 | | Label: Universal Studios
Salesrank: 49
Released: September 8, 2009 |
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MPAA Rating: Unrated
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Scranton’s most outrageous workforce is back to give their clients the business in the fifth hilarious season of The Office. Join obnoxious regional manager Michael Scott (Steve Carell) and his fellow paper pushers Dwight (Rainn Wilson), Jim (John Krasinski), Pam (Jenna Fischer) and Ryan (B.J. Novak) as they steal customers, frame co-workers, indulge in intra-office love affairs and just plain behave badly while a documentary film crew captures their every word and misdeed. Developed for American television by Primetime Emmy® Award-winner Greg Daniels, The Office: Season Five features 26 uproarious episodes – including two one-hour specials, exclusive commentaries, webisodes, deleted scenes and more in a sidesplitting five-disc collection no true fan of The Office can afford to miss!
Description of The Office - Season Five:
Season Five is not just another day at The Office, delivering break-ups, corporate shake-ups, and a game-changing finale that, as with Jim (John Krasinski), should leave you ecstatic and speechless. The writers continue their masterful handling of the Jim and Pam (Jenna Fischer) romance, taking care of some unfinished business from last season's finale in the season opener with a glorious rain-swept gas station proposal. Their initial separation--while she attends art school in New York--avoids the usual sitcom mechanics ("We are not that couple," Jim states as he aborts a panicked trip to see her). The course of true love is no smoother for The Office's other soul mates, Michael Scott (Steve Carrell) and "major dork" Holly Flax (an Emmy-worthy Amy Ryan), the new HR rep. Meanwhile, Angela (Angela Kinsey) and Dwight (Rainn Wilson) are having office trysts under the nose of her fiancé, Andy (Hangover star Ed Helms, having a breakout season in a career year). On the corporate front, Michael shockingly quits after butting heads with no-nonsense new boss Charles Miner (Idris Elba). In a brilliant stroke, Jim immediately gets on Charles's bad side, much to Dwight's delight. The formation of The Michael Scott Paper Company is a highlight of the season, as Michael and his dream team, Pam and Ryan (B.J. Novak), improbably put a major dent in Dunder Mifflin's sales (but at what cost?). For everyone who wonders how the blundering and tactless Michael keeps his job, it is instructive to get a glimpse of his sales acumen in the episodes "Heavy Competition," in which Michael poaches one of Dwight's clients, and "Broke," in which he negotiates a buyout of his struggling company. The Office's own dream team got dreamier with the addition of Ellie Kemper as "Erin," the adorable and naïve new receptionist. The Office still makes for cringe-worthy discomfort television (see a reunited Michael and Holly's excruciating skit at the "Company Picnic" in the season finale), but some of the best episodes are the ones in which the Scranton branch bonds in the face of adversity. A season benchmark is the episode in which the former Michael Scott Paper Company office space is transformed into "Café Disco" and all squabbles and resentments are forgotten on the dance floor. This season is representative of why The Office is one of television's most DVR'd series. Each episode offers priceless bits of background comic business and charming character grace notes that lend themselves to repeated viewing. Among them: Andy's drunken late night phone call to Angela in "Company Trip"; Pam demonstrating her volleyball prowess in "Company Picnic"; Kelly (Mindy Kaling) setting up one of the series' very best "that's what she saids" in "Customer Survey"; and Andy and Kelly's "dance off" in "Café Disco." As Dwight notes in "Heavy Competition," "There's a lot going on" in The Office, and in that chaos, this series soars. --Donald Liebenson
Also on the discs
This five-disc set works overtime with about eight episodes' worth of deleted scenes. Highlights include Pam bonding with her younger fellow students in New York, Kevin's revelation that he loves the smell of bacon on a woman, and Michael Scott on the loose with a defibrillator. The 10 audio commentaries are low-key, but informative, and some offer unique behind-the-scenes perspectives (one features craft services and catering personnel who reveal what the cast eats for breakfast). Along with the standard-issue gag reel, there are for completists two webisodes featuring the series' B+ team and synergetic promos for the Super Bowl and the Olympics. Andy Richter moderates an Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Q&A featuring the cast, key creative personnel, and crew members. A "100 Episodes, 100 Moments" countdown is open to debate (not one "that's what she said!"). --Donald Liebenson
The Office - Season Five Reviews:
Season Five, good but not as good as seasons 2 and 3 
2009-12-01 - The Office has been a great experience for my wife and I, regularly adding to our vocabulary words like: yesch, yeppers, tink n' flickr. I would put Steve Carrell's performances on this show up against the greatest acting performances in television history. He is just unbelievably brilliant.
I think the writer's strike hurt this show a little. There are a couple episodes that are not up to par with previous seasons. Other episodes seem created to buy time so they can wait to move the story lines along. The other problem is that the central story line: Jim and Pam relationship has resolved itself. That being said this is still very funny stuff. They have already worked on the other characters depth enough that they can keep this show going for quite a while.
If you watch the show on TV but have not picked up the DVD's you should. The bonus scenes on this show are hilarious. Sometimes they are really long almost like a free episode. Some of it is not really B material just stuff that didn't fit into the show. I recommend watching the episode and then the extras that go with it, but you can wait until the end and watch all the extras together too. My wife and I have seasons 2-5 and we have watched them over and over.
Great Show 
2009-12-01 - This show is so great. I know some may say this season is not one of the better ones, but I personally believe it is one of the funniest seasons. Great cast, great writing, gotta love this show.
happy customer
2009-11-27 - good price, fast shipping, good quality. dvds had no scratches and they were a good price
DVDs fine, box broken
2009-11-27 - The DVDs played properly, but the case arrived damaged. Not sure if it was seller's or shipper's fault. Arrived promptly as promised.
Spectacular season!
2009-11-25 - Wooosh! 26 episodes (two of them with 44 minutes), almost 5 minutes of deleted scenes by episode, very good packaging.
All this is amazing, but would not be enough if the episodes themselves were not great. They are! They are some of the best ever of the show. Unfortunately, towards the ending of the season we have some usual plot devices for sitcoms (or any other shows), I would not give any spoilers, but the final part of the last episode was so cliched (although shown in the usual Office way). I did not expect that.
This season is very good indeed. Dwight is out of control. In my opinion, someone clearly decided to give all the characters more evenly distributed screen time, and it shows. All in all, you cannot lose by watching it.
