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 Proof that sometimes less is more October 26, 2007
Robert Moore (Chicago, IL USA)
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
Minor Spoilers!
This is the first half hour episode of the season for THE OFFICE and the show is all the better for it. Although I enjoyed all four of the hour-long episodes that started the season, even on the very good ones my internal clock kept telling me that the show should be over after the first half hour. In the past, some of the extended episodes have worked quite well, in particular the superb "Beach Games" from late Season Three. The widely reported rumor last spring was that NBC wanted the show to expand to a full hour on a permanent basis. Hopefully the relatively flatness of the past four hour-long episodes has permanently squashed that idea.
In this episode, the Scranton branch is asked to participate in the making of a commercial to publicize Dunder Mifflin Infinity. But after learning that the Scranton people could only be involved in the final 2 or 3 seconds, merely enough time to wave at the camera, Michael insists on his people making their own video. There are many great moments in the episode, none so great as the "director's cut" of the Scranton-produced commerical that they play at Poor Richard's Pub after the officially authorized version plays on TV.
I have upset some people the past three years by letting it be known that I have not been a huge fan of Dwight. Sometimes he has been less of a real character than a caricature of a character. I'm finding that I'm enjoying him a lot more in Season Four as he struggles with his inner pain following his break up with Angela after he euthanized her cat. He constantly is going online to play the game Second Life, obviously for escapism. And he suffers uncomfortably as Andy recounts his efforts to get to First Base with Angela. One of the funniest bits of the episode comes when Andy tells him that he did get to first base with Angela, though she remained astonishingly unresponsive except to moan the letter D, which Andy bizarrely interprets to mean An-DEE, but which Dwight interprets in its more obvious sense.
So, all in all a great episode. The director, by the way, was Jason Reitman, son of Ivan Reitman.
OFFICE, BEST SERIES OUT THERE October 22, 2007
C. Byxbee
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Just plain and simply the best sitcom in the last ten years, gets better every week. Was kind of hoping it would have stayed on iTunes but such is life.
An amazing show with great humor December 9, 2007
Arvind Jayaraman
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I absolutely love "The office". The characters are great fun and really crack me up. After watching one episode I couldn't resist and ended up watching all the episodesThe Office - Season One in a week. Jenna Fischer as the receptionist does a great job and so does the sociopathic Rainn Wilson. It is extremely funny and something that I could totally relate to. Steve Carrel also does a great job as an egomaniacal boss.
Wonderful Show & Service. Stupid Reviewers! February 3, 2008
Gregory S. Ross (New York, NY)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I promised myself that I would never become one of those people who use these reviews as an opportunity to critique the Unbox service itself rather than the actual show we're supposed to be reviewing. But I read the first reviewer's comments for this title about an hour ago, and it so annoyed me that I had to take a moment to respond.
The reviewer offers two primary complaints about the Unbox service: that it doesn't warn users about the need for a Windows-based PC and that the video quality is poor. Neither of these complaints falls into the category of misguided opinions. Rather, both claims are objectively false in every possible way, on every imaginable level.
Amazon could not be more up front about the system requirements necessary to download and watch Unbox videos. I don't follow Macintosh news, so I'm not sure -- but I think Unbox either does or will soon offer Macintosh compatibility. But the first time I used Unbox it was a Windows-only service, and I remember extensive verbiage explaining exactly what kind of equipment was required.
Just because one customer is too lazy to read instructions doesn't mean a service is bad. Sometimes it's the customer who is bad!
The claim about video quality is even more absurd, since the actual resolution of Unbox downloads are some of the highest on the entire internet. If you have old or semi-compatible codecs installed, who knows what the video would look like! Anyone who isn't too dumb to configure their computer properly will confirm that Unbox downloads look and sound better than most standard-definition cable television broadcasts.
In any case, that was my little rant against self-righteous inaccuracies purported as valid opinions. The Office itself is a wonderful show, but I will have to come back to that one in a later review!
Awesome November 5, 2007
T. Hammond (Fairbanks, AK USA)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
I just feel all warm and fuzzy inside whenever I sit down and the opening credits of "The Office" comes on. It's a great show.
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