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Perhaps the Wittiest, Funniest thing I've ever seen.
I was blown away when I watched the first three episodes of this collection for the first time, and remember thinking, "in some sick twisted corner of corporate 'somewhere,' this hilarious circus of office pseudo-professionals exists and is being filmed documentarily."
If you can get really tickled by sardonic humor, sarcasm, light hearted mockery, irony, crazy British spontaneity, and dry wit.... You are going to lose pounds laughing -- from watching this series.
For anyone who has ever worked a desk job or a middle-level manager, worked in sales, or just had a heinous amount of corporate jargon and ridiculous business ideology stuffed down your throat, your will rejoice in the genius ways this film humorously deconstructs not only the problems with corporate ideologues, but also hilarious crisis that develop as a product of stressful relationships in the office.
The entire series is engaging, and never comes to a dull point; each episode ending with grippingly hilarious drama and dynamic plot twists with characters you begin to seriously care about --- That's the real genius of this series, even with all of the mockery and hilarity, the characters are rich enough that the viewer inevitably becomes enamored with their lives.
I can't speak highly enough for this masterful achievement of cinematic brilliance. For me, it was like watching SNL's "Jack Handy" quips, enacted with Monty Python, and complimented with the humor of Gary Larson and Kurt Vonnegut. Yeah, it's that good.
Buy it and watch it with good friends before you see the diluted and americanized version on NBC. If there were a way to give a product 10 stars, I'd do it for this series.
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