What is the Office?
The Office is a popular TV show that aired for 8 years, from 2005 to 2013 which gained popularity rapidly. The Office is a well-known television comedy that presents a group of strange but hilarious, everyday workers in a Dunder Mifflin Paper Company office building. It not only influenced many comedy TV shows today, but it started the popularity of mockumentaries, the single-camera setup, and “confessionals”. One of the amazing features and unique things about the show is that it has no laugh track or studio audience. The cast of this show was incredible, with different personalities that provide bizarre humor for the look of an ordinary office community. Since The Office was so popular, they ended up filming nine seasons. …show more content…
In an article in Variety, it states, “The Office” stood head and shoulders above every other TV show available on major subscription-video platforms.Last year, Americans cumulatively streamed more than 57 billion minutes of “The Office,” (Spangler, 2021). This proves that while Americans were kept in isolation, studies have shown that The Office was the top streamed TV show in the year 2020. Among other popular shows and movies to watch, The Office has shown to be different in an effective way that allowed it to expand to new heights when the U.S. was at a time of need. To conclude, the incredible producers, directors, cast, and makers of The Office have successfully made a popular and fame-worthy show that has taken an influential place in pop culture and other TV shows and movies …show more content…
Mindy Kaling, one of The Office’s writers and cast members, says that she agrees that some moments of the show, would not look great if it were made a decade later. In an article on Movie Web, Jeremy Dick states, “As Kaling explains: ‘That show is so inappropriate now. The writers who I'm still in touch with now, we always talk about how so much of that show we probably couldn't make now. Tastes have changed, and honestly what offends people has changed so much now,’ " (Dick 2022). This quote proves that supporters of the show still think that some scenes and episodes are controversial in the sense that they are seen as humor that has failed. Another mention of Mandy’s is that a reason why The Office is so popular is that it seems too bold to fit in with other shows made in recent years, which makes the people watching feel as though they are watching something forbidden yet
The Office is a popular TV show that aired for 8 years, from 2005 to 2013 which gained popularity rapidly. The Office is a well-known television comedy that presents a group of strange but hilarious, everyday workers in a Dunder Mifflin Paper Company office building. It not only influenced many comedy TV shows today, but it started the popularity of mockumentaries, the single-camera setup, and “confessionals”. One of the amazing features and unique things about the show is that it has no laugh track or studio audience. The cast of this show was incredible, with different personalities that provide bizarre humor for the look of an ordinary office community. Since The Office was so popular, they ended up filming nine seasons. …show more content…
In an article in Variety, it states, “The Office” stood head and shoulders above every other TV show available on major subscription-video platforms.Last year, Americans cumulatively streamed more than 57 billion minutes of “The Office,” (Spangler, 2021). This proves that while Americans were kept in isolation, studies have shown that The Office was the top streamed TV show in the year 2020. Among other popular shows and movies to watch, The Office has shown to be different in an effective way that allowed it to expand to new heights when the U.S. was at a time of need. To conclude, the incredible producers, directors, cast, and makers of The Office have successfully made a popular and fame-worthy show that has taken an influential place in pop culture and other TV shows and movies …show more content…
Mindy Kaling, one of The Office’s writers and cast members, says that she agrees that some moments of the show, would not look great if it were made a decade later. In an article on Movie Web, Jeremy Dick states, “As Kaling explains: ‘That show is so inappropriate now. The writers who I'm still in touch with now, we always talk about how so much of that show we probably couldn't make now. Tastes have changed, and honestly what offends people has changed so much now,’ " (Dick 2022). This quote proves that supporters of the show still think that some scenes and episodes are controversial in the sense that they are seen as humor that has failed. Another mention of Mandy’s is that a reason why The Office is so popular is that it seems too bold to fit in with other shows made in recent years, which makes the people watching feel as though they are watching something forbidden yet