EPISODE
SEASON
The Office - Season 1 (UK)
The story of an office that faces closure when the company decides to downsize its branches. A documentary film crew follow staff and the manager David Brent as they continue their daily lives.
1938, Lambeth, London, England, UK
11 July 1981, Croydon, Surrey, England, UK
30 May 1978, Southampton, Hampshire, England, UK
1970, Stockport, Cheshire, England, UK
8 September 1971, Aldershot, Hampshire, England, UK
17 October 1978, Esher, Surrey, England, UK
1965, Bowdon, Cheshire, England, UK
7 November 1978, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England, UK
1969, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK
1967, Hillingdon, London, England, UK
29 October 1976
August 14, 2018
Even though some thought it wasn't funny at all, due to its cringe-worthy humour and awkward characters, it's certainly an achievement to take all of these terribly unlikeable people and make us fall in love with them.
January 30, 2018
A half-hour of the first season still works like an anti-emetic after the all-you-can-eat binge-fest of the recent sweeps week. After the full 40 minutes, I'm as good as new.
September 07, 2018
The first time you watch the show, you really don't believe what you're seeing.
July 02, 2018
There is no laugh track, no frenetic action, no too-clever sex jokes, no cute daydreams, no outsize office kooks... The Office is perfect as it is, a sharp, ill-tempered slice of life.
May 03, 2019
"The Office" isn't a place anyone in his or her right mind would want to work, but shadowing these characters for a half-hour is entertainment at its most brilliantly nuanced.
June 28, 2018
Gervais is also goofily spot-on in what he doesn't say; the show, shot in documentary style, has him continually directing self-consciously insecure sideways glances at the camera, always to amusing effect.
November 08, 2017
But the British office was mean where the American office is nice. And that's better.
September 07, 2018
The brilliance of the series lies in this juxtaposition of the seemingly boring with the outrageous.
November 08, 2017
The Office changed comedy when it hit the airwaves.
February 04, 2019
It's a wonderful, subversive concept, and by failing to romanticize the players, Office remains true to its ghastly, funny self.
November 08, 2017
[Ricky] Gervais is brilliant as the clueless office manager.
February 25, 2020
The Office is a very funny spoof documentary series, though more "Ouch!" than "Ha, ha!"
