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DVD The Office - Season Two
Thank goodness for second seasons. While the first season of The Office started dubiously with a pilot that was just a poor copy of the original British version, it did manage to provide enough good material to stay on the air and hint that better was yet to come. And here it is. The second season of The Office finds its own footing and manages to do the near-impossible by not only breaking free of the gravity of that excellent BBC version to stand solidly on its own, but establishing it as one of the best comedies on TV. Season 2 starts out strong with "The Dundies," where Regional Manager, Michael Scott (Steve Carell, The 40 Year Old Virgin) hosts the company’s annual office-awards event with his signature less-than-perfect grace. Things seem to only get worse for him this season as he bumbles a potential affair with his boss, Jan (Melora Harding), angers his employees by reading their emails ("Email Surveillance"), cooks his foot ("The Injury"), and accidentally destroys the warehouse with a forklift in "Boys and Girls," one of the season’s highlight episodes. Always at his side is the clueless paranoid Dwight Schrute (Rainn Wilson), the Assistant Regional Manager ("Assistant to the Regional Manager," Michael always reminds him in one of the show’s running jokes).
One of the reasons for the show’s improvement in the second season is increased focus on Dwight’s character, who’s becoming something of a pop-culture icon right down to having his own bobblehead. He in turn provides so much good material for Pam (Jenna Fischer) and Jim (John Krasinsky) to play off of, to their own amusement. But of course, Pam and Jim’s simmering relationship is the real meat of the show, as their compatibility becomes more obvious, Jim’s feelings for her continue to grow, and Pam struggles with the impending marriage to her less-than-caring boyfriend, Roy (David Denman). Things have to come to a head, and they do nicely in the final episode, "Casino Night." As strong as the leading characters are in The Office, it’s the excellent peripheral characters that really make the show hilarious, especially dimwitted office-slug Kevin (Brian Baumgartner), long-suffering intern Ryan (B.J. Novak), office-ditz Kelly (Mindy Kaling), and ultra-conservative Angela (Angela Kinsey). As with season 1, this season contains excellent bonus features to give you an excuse to spend more time at The Office, including the fake PSAs, commentaries, Michael’s The Faces of Scranton movie, the ten stand-alone webisodes, and deleted scenes. --Daniel Vancini
The Office is one of the funniest shows on network TV. The cast and writers took the genius concept of the British import and did a fine job crafting their own show that will hopefully be on the air for many years to come. While it might not look like there are many extras, the few that are here are the perfect companion to these episodes. Some include truly funny bits, stuff that fans need to see for themselves.
I don't even watch television.
The Office is the single most well written TV sitcom that I have ever experienced. I've only enjoyed certain shows, such as Seinfeld and Family Guy, but this is absolutely amazing. This is a show for the intellectuals, the jokes are quickly carried out, giving it that British comedic feel. If you have this one, you're going to need to buy the first one, and most definitely the third season when it comes out. As I said in the title, I don't even watch television, and this my friends is the most amazing DVD set to come into light to this very day.
Dwight Shrute is coming to the Steamtown Mall in Scranton in mid-December!
Hands down the best comedy on TV today
...and well on its way to ranking amongst the best of all time. The Office is a smart (and dry) comedy that offers something different. The cast is all exceptional, particular Raine Wilson and Steve Carell as Dwight and Michael respectively. The cast expertly portrays a parody of office life in a way that leaves you rolling on the floor laughing with each episode.
Unlike Season 1, which was an overpriced single disc with just 6 episodes, this collection represents not only the first full season of the show, but also the episodes where it begins to hit its stride. And unlike so many of the box sets out there, the bonus features on this one are actually worth watching, especially the deleted scenes that accompany each episode (about 5 extra minutes on each episode!). No watered down content in these -- the deleted scenes are just as funny as any of the jokes in the episode.
My one beef actually goes back to the special features. I wish that there was a way to watch the full extended version of an episode with the extra scenes included so that you could see them in their full context. The added jokes ring well as long as you watch the deleted scenes immediately after watching the corresponding episode, but it's not the kind of thing where you can sit back and just watch all the deleted scenes for an evening. They lose some of their impact as standalone segments.
The British sitcom The Office has the most devoted following this side of Monty Python, so an American remake seemed doomed. Amazingly, the remake actually finds its own enjoyable version of the original's uncanny comedy of embarrassment. Office manager Michael Scott (Steve Carell, The Daily Show, The 40 Year-Old Virgin) believes he's the beloved leader of the Scranton, Pennsylvania, branch of a paper products company--but his relentless and painfully forced efforts at comedy creep out everyone around him, including paranoid Dwight (Rainn Wilson, who had a memorable recurring role on Six Feet Under), nervous receptionist Pam (Jenna Fischer, LolliLove), and aimless salesman Jim (John Krasinski, A New Wave), who's smitten with the already... More Info about this DVD DVD Release Date: Released the 16 August 2005 Usually ships in 6 to 11 days
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Arrested Development--one of the greatest comedies in the history of television--went out in a blaze of glory. The truncated final season packed more biting humor per minute than ever before. In only 13 episodes, dozens of intertwining storylines spun in all directions: In addition to the overarching story about the fractious infighting of the Bluth family and the family's housing development company being investigated for treason in Iraq (a plot arc that comes to a dazzlingly surreal conclusion), the put-upon "good son" Michael Bluth (Jason Bateman, Teen Wolf Too) pursues romance with a lovely British woman (Charlize Theron, Monster) who turns out to be woefully inappropriate; swaggering magician Gob (Will Arnett, Monster-In-Law) flees from his... More Info about this DVD DVD Release Date: Released the 29 August 2006 Usually ships in 24 hours
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It feels both inaccurate and inadequate to describe The Office as a comedy. On a superficial level, it disdains all the conventions of television sitcoms: there are no punch lines, no jokes, no laugh tracks, and no cute happy endings. More profoundly, it's not what we're used to thinking of as funny. Most of the fervently devoted fan base watched with a discomfortingly thrilling combination of identification and mortification. The paradox is that its best moments are almost physically unwatchable. Set in the offices of a fictional British paper merchant, The Office is filmed in the style of a reality television show. The writing is subtle and deft, the acting wonderful, and the characters beautifully drawn: the cadaverous team leader Gareth (Mackenzie Crook); the monstrous... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Stephen Merchant - Ricky Gervais DVD Release Date: Released the 16 November 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Again a funny and greatly entertaining series, I just can't get enough. What will he think of next, I hope there will be more, but I suppose it's not for everyone, There's no violence, some amusing swearing, an inside look at hollywood types, I'm glad I don't run in their circle of friends. Yes it's funny and you will laugh if you GET IT! Some people won't, you can certainly see his ideas in Seinfeld. I suggest you get all five seasons and enjoy the laughter over and over. More Info about this DVD Director(s): Larry Charles DVD Release Date: Released the 01 August 2006 Usually ships in 24 hours
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The most original comedy since Arrested Development, My Name is Earl marked the launch of a lovable new loser. Earl Hickey (Jason Lee) sleeps all day and drinks all night. The pattern ends when he buys a "scratcher"--and wins $100,000. Seconds later, he's hit by a car and loses the ticket. While in the hospital, wife Joy (Emmy nominee Jaime Pressly) leaves him for Darnell the Crab Man (Eddie Steeples). Doped up on morphine, he's watching TV when Carson Daly says something about karma. Earl decides that's his problem: bad karma. He resolves to spend the rest of his life making up for all the harm he's ever done. In the pilot, Earl and brother Randy (Ethan Suplee) start by picking up litter around their motel (Joy got the trailer). While they're at it, Earl finds the lost... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Eddie Steeples DVD Release Date: Released the 19 September 2006 Usually ships in 24 hours
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