25 Great Workplace Comedies to Stream (That Aren't 'The Office')

by Jason Dietz, Metacritic Features Editor – April 8, 2021

There are only so many times you can rewatch The Office (or even The Office). In fact, in the likely event that you aren't a Peacock Premium subscriber, you can't even stream much of the American series at all anymore.

But fear not: As some of us enter our second year of working at home there are still plenty of critic-approved streaming workplace comedies to satisfy any nostalgia you may have for days of toiling in a crowded office surrounded by your coworkers. (Or merely to kill the extra hours you have to spend at home.) Our suggestions for your next workplace comedy binge—including information on where to stream each show—can be found in alphabetical order in the gallery above. Most of these shows are from the past few decades, but at the end of the gallery we have compiled suggestions for some additional classic workplace sitcoms, as well as a few titles that are just getting started. (Shows such as Sports Night and NewsRadio not currently streaming in full on any free or subscription service are excluded.)

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83 Back (2017–present)

12 episodes (2 seasons) streaming at AMC+ and Sundance Now

The workplace: A pub in the English countryside.

Peep Show, the brilliant British comedy series starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb, was in small part an office comedy (though one of its two main characters famously had very few workplaces during the show's nine-season run). Back, the stars' follow-up series which reunites them with Peep Show writer Simon Blackwell, is more so, with each episode taking place in part inside a Cotswolds pub that has been inherited by Mitchell's hedge-vodka-loving divorcee from his recently deceased father and that is managed at times by his foster brother (Webb), who may or may not also be a sociopathic con man. The show's second season just began airing in the States on IFC (but is already streaming in full).

“Back is one of the funniest and most intriguingly different comedies in a long time.” —Tim Goodman, The Hollywood Reporter

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