Office-Season 2 (2006)

"Painfully funny!  Boston Globe
"...highly entertaining...my favorite show currently playing on network television.  Brendan Babish, DVD Verdict
"Smart, biting 9-to-5 satire.  Entertainment Weekly
"...a terrific comedy full of laugh-out loud moments.  William David Lee, DVD Town
"...extremely funny...the cast is perfect in their roles, delivering in each and every scene...  Francis Rizzo, III, DVD Talk
"Priceless moments...daring, unflinching...  James Poniewozik, Time
"The most brilliant send-up of cubicle hell since Office Space.  Maxim

Editor's Note Based on the popular British comedy of the same name, THE OFFICE takes place in and around the Dunder Mifflin Paper Company in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Using the same mockumentary style as the original, the series succeeds in capturing the quiet desperation of the poor souls working in this socially stifling environment under the direction of delusional boss, regional manager Michael Scott. Comic actor Steve Carell beautifully inhabits the role, playing a man so eager to be liked, he completely alienates people with one stupid antic after another. Blindly believing himself beloved by his employees for his laid-back nature, Michael fails to see that, with the exception of nerdy and bizarre Dwight (Rainn Wilson), he is resented and despised by all. Carell perfectly walks the line between despicable and pathetic, enlisting his audience's sympathies just moments before doing or saying something horribly inappropriate. The second season is even better than the first, with several romantic storylines getting into full swing in episodes like "Email Surveillance," "Sexual Harassment," and "Booze Cruise." THE OFFICE may be a remake, but it has charms of its very own. SEASON TWO contains all 22 episodes from the season.

	B.J. Novak
	Brian Baumgartner
	David Koechner
	Jenna Fischer
	John Krasinski
	Mindy Kaling
	Rainn Wilson
	Steve Carell
	B.J. Novak - Producer
	Dean Holland, et. al. - Editor
	Greg Daniels, et. al. - Director
	Jay Ferguson - Original Music By
	Matt Sohn, et. al. - Cinematographer
	Michael G. Gallenberg - Production Designer
	Michael Schur, et. al. - Writer
	Ricky Gervais - Executive Producer

Entertainment Weekly
"The saltine-dry cubicle humor and Carell's painfully hilarious performance still take center stage..." -- Grade: A 09/15/2006 p.60

Ultimate DVD
5 stars out of 5 -- "[E]xceptional....There's welcome development for the supporting cast, who rise to the challenge magnificently...." 10/01/2006 p.114

Movieline's Hollywood Life
"THE OFFICE really came into is own, stepping out of the shadow of its British forbearer and into its own wonderfully wince-worthy world." 11/01/2006 p.110

Uncut
3 stars out of 5 -- "It's extremely funny and beautifully acted, especially by Steve Carell as the insufferable boss." 03/01/2008 p.124

Empire
4 stars out of 5 -- "THE OFFICE continues to benefit from fantastic casting and a clear understanding of the original's concept." 03/01/2008 p.146

Total Film
4 stars out of 5 -- "Standout eps include Michael burning his foot on a George Foreman grill, he and Dwight fighting at the local dojo and the team enacting an action-movie script that Michael's scribbled on the sly." 04/01/2008 156

Reel.com 9 of 10
Seinfeld was touted as "a show about nothing," but the TV situation comedy that actually fulfills that promise is the excellent American version of The Office, with episodes built around truly mundane office scenarios...The premise is meant to be as dull as possible: a paper distribution company populated by resigned, worn-down long-term employees and I'm-outta-here short-timers...It's a blank slate, in other words, in which the actors can work their characters, and this great cast knows just what to do...Ricky Gervais, who conceived and starred in the original BBC version of The Office, was so funny in the British version that fans of that series were naturally skeptical about the effort to bring the project across the pond with an all-American cast. But the NBC version works very well, in large part because of Carrel, who is not imitating Gervais' character, but doing something all his own. - Ken Dubois