the.com/the office uk
seven episodes of a man mistaking silence for love, and getting it exactly right.
means a 2001 bbc mockumentary about a paper company in slough, where david brent performs charisma and everyone else quietly dies inside.
from created by ricky gervais and stephen merchant from a sketch gervais did as a boss doing a bad dance, expanded into a fake documentary about middle management delusion.
episode countonly 12 episodes plus two specials, total
us remakeran nine seasons versus the uk's two
brent's dancegervais choreographed it himself, badly, on purpose
christmas endingtim and dawn kiss, no laugh track, silence
for instance
david brent — entertainer, philosopher, victim of a redundancy he cannot admit
tim and dawn — the will-they stapler-in-jello romance that invented the format
gareth keenan — territorial army obsessive, keeper of the stapler drawer
slough — real berkshire town, now permanently associated with quiet despair