I have to watch this through my fingers sometimes because it is so horrifically true.
The premise is that a film crew is making a fly on the wall documentary about a paper company in Slough (a particularly dismal outer suburb of London for our foreign readers, if any).
Ricky Gervais makes a meal of the main character David Brent who is so dreadfully awful yet has no inkling just how gruesome he is (whereby hangs the comedy). The petty office rituals and casual sexism come across beautifully and full marks to Gervais for scripting this (though apparently he had difficulty getting it made).
There is terrific support especially from Mackenzie Crook as the half wit sidekick obsessed with military matters and the guy who plays the odious Chris Finch.
Probably not accessible to non-Brits but this has the makings of a classic along the lines of Alan Partridge, as others have pointed out.
Superb comedy!
The premise is that a film crew is making a fly on the wall documentary about a paper company in Slough (a particularly dismal outer suburb of London for our foreign readers, if any).
Ricky Gervais makes a meal of the main character David Brent who is so dreadfully awful yet has no inkling just how gruesome he is (whereby hangs the comedy). The petty office rituals and casual sexism come across beautifully and full marks to Gervais for scripting this (though apparently he had difficulty getting it made).
There is terrific support especially from Mackenzie Crook as the half wit sidekick obsessed with military matters and the guy who plays the odious Chris Finch.
Probably not accessible to non-Brits but this has the makings of a classic along the lines of Alan Partridge, as others have pointed out.
Superb comedy!