The Office (TV Series) Merger (2002) User Reviews

Merger (#2.1)

[ComedyFan2010 · 8/10 · 25 February 2018]

Now that companies got merged David's brunch gets to know the new boss Neil and some new co workers. David gets some trouble because new people find his jokes offensive. Tim avoids Dawn but when he gets back on friendship terms with her Lee comes in and takes it the wrong way.

A fun episode that predicts some trouble with workers for David in the next season. The joke he told wasn't actually funny but not that offensive. This was actually interesting, I don't remember people in 2002 being so oversensitive. I hope David can get rid of those complainers and keep it all fun.

really liked the story of Tim and Dawn, they perform very well how the tension between them was developing.

Back to business

[MaxBorg89 · 10/10 · 10 January 2009]

For all its underlying bleakness, the first season of The Office ended on a quite cheerful note, with David Brent announcing the Slough branch of Wernham Hogg would incorporate its Swindon counterpart, not the other way around. The second series begins exactly two weeks after those events, and it looks like the fun is gonna diminish a significant bit, at least for David.

The thing is, although he made sure his staff would still have a job, he is now forced to deal with six new people, not to mention a new boss, Neil Godwin (Patrick Baladi), former regional manager of the Swindon branch. Things start quite badly when David tries to break the ice with a slightly racist joke (it involves the Royal Family, Camilla Parker Bowles and a certain stereotyped idea about African-Americans). Predictably, Jennifer Taylor-Clark and Neil don't take it very well, and things get even worse when he tries to make up for his mistake. And the BBC cameras are, as always, ready to immortalize everything.

Oh, yes: David won't have that much fun anymore. That doesn't mean the audience won't, though: watching him and Gareth make one mistake after the other - without the intention of being funny-men - is one of the most joyous sights on a small screen, even if the humor is often just a tool to make it easier to observe the small gestures of human nastiness that can occur at work. Even more than the first series, the second year of The Office promises to be less like a TV comedy and more like a look at real life.