The Office (2005)★ 9.0/10

Even the "worst" seasons, that is after Michael leaves, are amazing.

Set in the everyday lives of workers in a branch office of a paper company, The Office adopts a pseudo-documentary style with interviews, with most of the humor revolving around the lead character portrayed by Steve Carell. His awkward jokes, conversations, and interactions that are filled with self-righteousness, self-indulgence, and self-satisfaction, surprisingly deliver delightful moments of humor despite their cringeworthy nature. Other characters also contribute significantly to the show, with the developing and ambiguous relationship between John Krasinski and Jenna Fischer being a particular point of interest, leaving viewers curious about their future interactions.

The Office delivers cringe-worthy humor to the extreme, using its office setting and mockumentary filming style to satirize capitalism and male-dominated cultures. Michael Scott emerges as the epitome of the worst qualities in humanity and bosses alike, displaying misogyny, homophobia, and racial discrimination, coupled with miserliness, pettiness, and a lack of principles. Despite proclaiming the company to be a family, he views each employee as his own slave, twisting every team-building event into a stage for power displays and obedience tests. The most humorous aspect lies in his obliviousness to the contradictions and abnormalities in his words and actions, of how he considers the collective silence of submission as a testament to his leadership success, unaware that his subordinates' numb acquiescence is directed towards the higher authorities behind him.

Michael Scott is one of the most brilliant characters ever, Steve Carell knows exactly how to play him. He’s that annoying kind of person who (most of the times) has the heart in the right place. Everybody has already met one of those.

This show has a kind of humor different from all the others I have already watched. The timing of the cast is perfect, sometimes making me feel ashamed of what the characters have done. There’s a fine line between real and surreal in the situations of this show, and I think this is one of its highlights.

Steve Carell gives the most impressive performance of this career in "The Office", one of the most acclaimed comedies of all time thanks to his awkward and unconventional humor.

Thanks to its directing style, its wonderful actors and its revolutionary humor, this series is considered as one of the best of all times.

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