Being far too busy (read: lazy) to schedule my tv-watching, I’ve stopped following any of the drama/sitcom shows for a long while now, relegating myself to home-improvement and Family Guy reruns. Then the American version of The Office premiered on NBC.
From Brad’s recommendation I have seen four episodes of the original BBC comedy, but I had one major complaint about the show: I can’t understand what the heck they’re saying. Damn British and their accents. The show takes a bit to get used to because the main character isn’t exactly likeable, but after a while I got to understand how the humor worked.
Naturally the American version of The Office doesn’t have the, um…language issues that I had with the British version. It’s good that the creator of the original series, Ricky Gervais, is on board as one of the producers, and the first episode was almost a spot-on copy of the British version.
Make sure to check this show out if you’re burned out from all the Friends-clone sitcoms. Tuesdays at 9:30 on NBC.
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