She is one of the best sitcoms of all time, she who revealed many talents in addition to having made us laugh to tears for eight years: we named “The Office” (US version), the ordinary, the hilarious , denies her.
It all starts when a film crew arrives at the Dunder Mifflin branch in Scranton, Pennsylvania to film a documentary about the lives of the employees of this simple paper-making company. However, run by a crazy boss, Michael Scott – played by a delirious Steve Carell – this office is anything but ordinary. Then will follow adventures both extra and ordinary, more crazy than ever, during the eight years that the beloved show will last.
If the adventure The Office began across the Channel with Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant and its original British version, the mockumentary-like show following the daily life of more than imperfect employees has since crossed all borders. However, The Office, the original, had set the bar high and it seemed then that nothing could equal it… It was without counting on its Americanized counterpart!
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It’s Greg Daniels, veteran screenwriter (Saturday Night LiveThe Simpsons) who undertook to adapt it in 2005: if the recipe remains the same with its documentary side always giving you the impression that everything is true, we nevertheless go from a very particular English humor to a humor just as hilarious and absurd: The Office US is a widely acclaimed surprise, both by critics and the public.
His characters have since entered into legend: from the mythical Dwight (Rainn Wilson) to the emblematic Jim (John Krasinski) and Pam (Jenna Fischer), passing of course by the horrifying Michael (Steve Carrell) that will quickly get on your nerves while making you cry with laughter: and yes, you’ll love to hate it and hate to love it – it’s frustrating and perfect and it works both ways, you’ll see!
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Awarded a multitude of prestigious awards, The Office US is, when it airs, one of the most-watched American sitcoms, revered star of NBC. Today, it continues to beat audience records on Netflix around the world, even 10 years after its cessation, having definitively reached its status as a cult series in the same way as Friends, which it has often equaled. If the show has made its way to critical glory, it is above all a favorite of viewers who are full of praise for it and who keep citing it among the best ever made.
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True success on all counts, The Office is also a career-building series. She is indeed the one who propelled Steve Carrell on the front of the stage – and yet a famous Avenger had strongly advised him not to accept the role! The show also revealed the talents of John Krasinsky (director and screenwriter of Without a Noise), Mindy Kaling (almighty producer, creator, among others, of the shows The Mindy Project and My First Time), Ellie Kemper (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt) or even Michael Schur (creator of Parks and Recreation and The Good Place) – to name but a few.
Hilarious, ridiculous, disturbed and yet full of heart, moving and passionate, we can only invite you to dive into her adored chaotic universe: you will not be disappointed, we promise you.