Maggers Wrote:Hmmm...sounds like the series might peter out as time goes on. Last night was the first episode, the one with Kate Winslet. I really enjoyed it. Guess time will tell.
Dave, how did you like "The Office?" I loved it, though it gave me many moments where I cringed even as I was laughing. Perhaps on this side of the pond, Ricky Gervais is so unique that he stands head and shoulders above what we are served as routine comedy series.
This is my problem with Gervais. I'm not a fan of embarrasing humour, I really get turned off by it, unless it is self referential. So seeing the stars make fools of themselves is funny, but the other plots, the ones that involve him or his friend getting mistaken as bigots or racists, although I can see why they are funny I just want to turn off. I ended up tivoing the show and forwarding through those bits and only watching the stars doing their thing.
This is also why I never got into The Office, some of it was funny, granted, but some of it was just not for me.
You're seeing it in a different order to what we saw. We had Ben Stiller first, which was a little flat. Kate was about half way through the series (6 episodes in total).
Check out the episode with Ross Kemp, you may not know the actor (he was a big soap star in the UK and went on to play very manly roles), but the episode is just a classic and a perfect example of an actor taking the piss out of himself.
Dave