The Office (UK): Season 2

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BBC-2 | BBC America | BBC Two | Season Premiere Date: September 30, 2002

Starring: Ralph Ineson, Martin Freeman, Lucy Davis

Summary: "Trust, encouragement, reward, loyalty... satisfaction. That's what I'm..you know. Trust people and they'll be true to you. Treat them greatly, and they will show themselves to be great." - David Brent. The Office tells a story of a few people working in a British office working hard to not lose their jobs. This hilarious comedy won a"Trust, encouragement, reward, loyalty... satisfaction. That's what I'm..you know. Trust people and they'll be true to you. Treat them greatly, and they will show themselves to be great." - David Brent. The Office tells a story of a few people working in a British office working hard to not lose their jobs. This hilarious comedy won a Golden Globe award for best comedy series. It was created by Ricky Gervais and Steve Merchant. David Brent (Ricky Gervais) is a manager of low intelligence and has no sense of humor, but is convinced that he is the best, the most entertaining and the most well liked boss of all time.Today the show has been sold in more than 60 countries and it even had a remake in America. The Office is the first non-American show nominated in the category of best television musical or comedy for a Golden Globe Award; and Ricky Gervais was the first non-American actor nominated for the lead role in a television comedy for the same award. The Office won both awards and left Sex and the City & Matt LeBlanc empty handed. When the series aired the first season, they did not even know how popular it would get in some future episodes. The fact that its release on the DVD format proved to be the BBC's best selling comedy release shows its mass popularity and appeal.The writers at the start did not imagine that a second season would be created and after bowing to pressure to create one they would not do it again for a third. The show ended on a high note after two Christmas specials which tied up knots and rounded off wonderfully the first two seasons.Opening Theme Song: "Handbags and Gladrags" performed by Fin.WARNING: some episodes contain quotes with strong language.… Expand

Creator: Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant

Genre(s): Comedy

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Season 2 Episodes

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S2:E6. Episode 6
Air Date: November 4, 2002
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S2:E5. Episode 5
Air Date: October 28, 2002
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S2:E4. Episode 4
Air Date: October 21, 2002

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Ken Tucker

Jun 14, 2013

The pleasure to be taken from 'Office' isn't merely that of laughter -- it's the pleasure of watching a piece of entertainment so perfectly made and so delicately acted. Read full review

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Alan Sepinwall

Jul 25, 2013

The six-episode first season of "The Office" was so dark, so wicked, so brilliant that it was hard to imagine Gervais and Merchant topping themselves. But they have. By slowly chipping away at David's power base, they've made him even more desperate, petulant and bullying. (The less funny David gets, the funnier the show is.) [10 Oct 2003]

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Monica Collins

Jul 25, 2013

"The Office" makes you cringe in delight and heave with giggles when you see the absurdity of it all. [23 Oct 2003]

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Steve Johnson

Jul 25, 2013

The laughs are still there ... But the show begins to take on ominous overtones, a kind of small-scale tragedy in the making as it plots the apparent path of a little dictator's downfall. [10 Oct 2003]

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Robert Lloyd

Jul 25, 2013

As did the six previous episodes, the new installments generate a tension so awful, from circumstances so awfully lifelike, that you have to watch at times from behind laced fingers, with teeth clenched and the remote control close at hand. Read full review

Robert Bianco

Jul 25, 2013

It takes a real artist's eye to concentrate reality so realistically, and a true wit to pull it off in a sitcom that makes you gasp as frequently as it makes you laugh. [10 Oct 2003]

Marvin Kitman

Jul 25, 2013

Larry David is obnoxious in "Curb Your Enthusiasm" but very funny. Gervais' David is just obnoxious. ... It's the sort of comedy that only certain people can get, like the way dogs can hear sounds human can't. I'm ashamed to say, I couldn't take it more than one dinner hour. [19 Oct 2003]

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TheIlluminati

Feb 27, 2014

@TheChaser1985 & @AtTheMovies - refer to my season 1 review for the reasons why you are wrong.

I am pleased that a few years have passed and Metacritic has gotten off its backside to properly review this to add perspective to your idiotic 'reasoning' behind your concerns with the show.@TheChaser1985 & @AtTheMovies - refer to my season 1 review for the reasons why you are wrong.

I am pleased that a few years have passed and Metacritic has gotten off its backside to properly review this to add perspective to your idiotic 'reasoning' behind your concerns with the show.

The US version is watered down and a weak knock-off. It's OK, in a 6/10 way, but the UK version is one of the most important comedies in the last 20 years, and this belief and obvious fact is reinforced by the universal acclaim it has received on metacritic.

If you wish to try undercut the critical faculties of these 30-odd reviews then why are you even on metacritic?

And @AtTheMovies - yes, it is because you are American. I'm surprised you even persisted with the US version as, without a laughter tracker, I am surprised you even knew when or if to laugh at all!

Stick to 'Two and a Half Men' and 'The Big Bang Theory' please, and get your grubby pawprints off this universally acclaimed, superior (to the US version and to everything else) and stunning show.

Leave the reviews of this quality and difficult-to-comprehend-for-the-idiotic-masses show to people with brains or who aren't too proud to admit it rains all over the US version (which I might reiterate is a remake of the UK version, which is almost a guarantee that it cannot even be as good, let alone better [and certainly is in this case]).

Only a fool doesn't like this, but the appeal of this show will be lost on those who wait to hear canned laughter before they engage themselves.

Best. Comedy. Ever. Done.… Expand