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chalkitdown

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Only one more episode left because of the strike. :(

I can't believe how unpopular this show is, here, though.

It's.........disheartening. Is it because it's a remake of an English show? I presume it is. I imagine the first few episodes are off-putting, alright, if you were a fan of the original. My brother dismisses it out of hand. Won't even watch it for me. I offered him DVD's of it, even, and he still wouldn't take 'em.

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Seconded, I don't belly laugh too much even for comedies. I think Arrested development made me do it a couple of times, but not actual belly laughs for much else, just grinning. Not this though, it's astonishingly hilarious.

Only one more episode left because of the strike. :)

Noooo, I didn't know about this! Anyone have any updates? Surely there'll be a resolution soon

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chalkitdown

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Noooo, I didn't know about this! Anyone have any updates? Surely there'll be a resolution soon

'tis true. Because so many of the cast are writers themselves, they can't film the 4 or 5 already completed scripts. I think it's the first primetime show to run out of episodes(apart from the talk shows, of course).

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M.M.S

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I think there are still two more hour long episodes to come.

It's still brilliant, but I wonder if it'll survive having Jim and Pam's relationship resolved. So many shows fall by the wayside after their main relationships come to a head; it'd be a shame to see the same thing happen to The Office.

I agree about your second point but not about it still being brilliant. Far from it in fact. The second series was amazing and the third was great too, coming to a nice conclusion. The fourth series has seriously jumped the shark IMO. When I saw Jim, Dwight and Micheal in the car with fake mustaches on I knew it was over :)

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The scene where Michael sat down next to Toby and he started talking about his divorce had me in histerics. The look on michale's face. :lol:

Infact, any scene with the two of them is generally brilliant.

I thought that was going to be a moment where Michael connects with Toby, and drops his petty dislike of him... but he just slowly pushes his tray off :lol:

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chalkitdown

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Thought I'd bump the thread to post

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Absolutely fucking hillarious. ^_^ ^_^ :lol: I haven't laughed so much in a long time. Fave bit is in the second vid it when Dwight says, "I really don't think so", then it zooms in for a murderous wry smile.

Fair dues to whover put these together, they're absolutely brilliant. The music makes the first one. I recognise it from something, but I can't place it.

I really wish the strike would end. I miss this show. :wub:

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Darragh

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GOOD NEWS!

From the NY Times:

The show that will carry the biggest load is the comedy “The Office,” which Mr. Silverman originally brought to the network as a producer. NBC has ordered 28 half-hours of the show, well above the usual top network order of 24, and it is asking the same production team to create the spinoff, the details of which Mr. Silverman declined to reveal.

Fifth season a-go-go!

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chalkitdown

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GOOD NEWS!

Indeed. 4 of the episodes will be 40 minute jobs, again, like the start of season 4, so that '28' in the article there is a bit misleading.

Anyway, season 4 returns next Thursday, finally :) Hard to believe it's been off the air for what, 6 months, now?

Think there's gonna be 6 more eps. I wonder how they're gonna cover-up Angela Kinsey's pregnancy? She'll probably be sat behind a desk for the rest of the season.

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CrispinG

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I'm watching it on TBS right now. It's dire. First episode of this I've caught since the first series, and I'm amazed it's made it this far. The Gareth character played by that jackass who ruins everything he's in is so exaggerated I want to turn it off every time he comes into frame. Jim is so charismatic and smooth I don't understand why we're supposed to give a shit whether he gets together with the Dawn character. Steve Carrell is pretty good, though.

Overall: shit.

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I watched the latest one and really enjoyed it. I recently watched the entire run of the british one and of course its much much better on every level but in it's own little way the american version does work nicely

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I've been watching this over the last week and have now finished season 2 and am starting season 3, and I'm not sure what to make of it. It was very strange when it started (the amalgamation of the UK episodes didn't really work IMO), then during season 2 it really started to find its own voice, but dipped towards the end. I think it is because for a while it started to feel quite natural, but then suddenly everything seemed a bit cosy. This may sound strange but things have become a bit too 'acted'. Anybody else feel the same?

Some of the character work is great; Micheal's interactions with Ryan have been good and he isn't anywhere near as odious a person as Gervais was, so you kind of what to see him get out of his scrapes. I started rooting for him and Jan to have a proper go at things.

So for anybody who is more current than I, did this peak midway through season 2, or is there still plenty of good-stuff to come? What are people's opinions on it?

I can sympathise with Crispin, though. I watched most of the first season with a sense of dread, it just didn't work trying to shoe-horn *all* of the UK storylines into 6 episodes.

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