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Re: Massively Overrated Stuff
Posted: Sun Apr 07, 2024 3:38 pm
by enframed
boilermaker wrote: Sun Apr 07, 2024 2:59 pm
tonyballzee wrote: Sat Apr 06, 2024 8:57 pm
The Office, the American one.
It started good but quickly went from somewhat of a mockumentary to a typical American sitcom.
Yes, the English one is better overall, however, American has its moments all the way through.
Re: Massively Overrated Stuff
Posted: Sun Apr 07, 2024 4:29 pm
by jfv
enframed wrote: Sun Apr 07, 2024 3:38 pm
boilermaker wrote: Sun Apr 07, 2024 2:59 pm
tonyballzee wrote: Sat Apr 06, 2024 8:57 pm
The Office, the American one.
It started good but quickly went from somewhat of a mockumentary to a typical American sitcom.
Yes, the English one is better overall, however, American has its moments all the way through.
It's difficult to get through an entire episode because I cannot stand Steve Carell's Michael Scott. I could stand to watch and would very much enjoy a compilation of the best interactions between Jim Halpert and Dwight Schrute, however.
Re: Massively Overrated Stuff
Posted: Sun Apr 07, 2024 4:59 pm
by enframed
jfv wrote: Sun Apr 07, 2024 4:29 pm
enframed wrote: Sun Apr 07, 2024 3:38 pm
boilermaker wrote: Sun Apr 07, 2024 2:59 pm
It started good but quickly went from somewhat of a mockumentary to a typical American sitcom.
Yes, the English one is better overall, however, American has its moments all the way through.
It's difficult to get through an entire episode because I cannot stand Steve Carell's Michael Scott. I could stand to watch and would very much enjoy a compilation of the best interactions between Jim Halpert and Dwight Schrute, however.
Yeah Carrell ruins it for me, too. He's the least "real" character on the show. Whereas the English version has David Brent, who is so real as to make me, having worked in an "office" for many years, really uncomfortable.
Re: Massively Overrated Stuff
Posted: Sun Apr 07, 2024 6:29 pm
by zircona1
Coldplay.
20 years ago they were fine, but now it's just big, boring rock music. Chris Martin and his whole "oh, I'm just an ordinary guy" persona really irritates me.
Re: Massively Overrated Stuff
Posted: Sun Apr 07, 2024 8:57 pm
by Anthony Flack
Prince and Bowie.
Identikit is what they called the box full of pictures of different eyes and noses and mouths and chins etc they used to use to assemble police identification pictures without using a sketch artist.
Re: Massively Overrated Stuff
Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2024 10:39 am
by zorg
enframed wrote: Sun Apr 07, 2024 4:59 pm
jfv wrote: Sun Apr 07, 2024 4:29 pm
enframed wrote: Sun Apr 07, 2024 3:38 pm
Yes, the English one is better overall, however, American has its moments all the way through.
It's difficult to get through an entire episode because I cannot stand Steve Carell's Michael Scott. I could stand to watch and would very much enjoy a compilation of the best interactions between Jim Halpert and Dwight Schrute, however.
Yeah Carrell ruins it for me, too. He's the least "real" character on the show. Whereas the English version has David Brent, who is so real as to make me, having worked in an "office" for many years, really uncomfortable.
You guy's are nuts. I can't watch the guy in any other role, but seeing him squirm during the Scott's Tots episode is top tier. The problem for the show is obviously the miserable concession to the rom-com cliches and "cute" bullshit that lead to it's steady decline.
Re: Massively Overrated Stuff
Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2024 11:01 am
by handsbloodyhands
Sophie's Choice: Wearing a Friends or Dunder-Mifflin t-shirt?
Re: Massively Overrated Stuff
Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2024 11:28 am
by enframed
handsbloodyhands wrote: Mon Apr 08, 2024 11:01 am
Sophie's Choice: Wearing a
Friends or
Dunder-Mifflin t-shirt?
Death?
Re: Massively Overrated Stuff
Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2024 1:13 pm
by zircona1
When I'm preparing dinner and my wife is relaxing, reruns of Friends or The Office are what's on TV as mostly background noise. I like 'em both just fine (the latter more than the former).
Re: Massively Overrated Stuff
Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2024 1:37 pm
by jfv
zorg wrote: Mon Apr 08, 2024 10:39 am
enframed wrote: Sun Apr 07, 2024 4:59 pm
jfv wrote: Sun Apr 07, 2024 4:29 pm
It's difficult to get through an entire episode because I cannot stand Steve Carell's Michael Scott. I could stand to watch and would very much enjoy a compilation of the best interactions between Jim Halpert and Dwight Schrute, however.
Yeah Carrell ruins it for me, too. He's the least "real" character on the show. Whereas the English version has David Brent, who is so real as to make me, having worked in an "office" for many years, really uncomfortable.
You guy's are nuts. I can't watch the guy in any other role, but seeing him squirm during the Scott's Tots episode is top tier. The problem for the show is obviously the miserable concession to the rom-com cliches and "cute" bullshit that lead to it's steady decline.
Guilty.
Significant exception: when Michael Scott takes the GPS driving instructions literally and drives him, his car, and Dwight into a lake.