I’ve watched Cordon (it’s a Belgian show) about a viral epidemic involving a lockdown to a specific city (in Antwerp) which aired sometime in 2014. There’s a US remake of that show under a different name: Containment (the main setting was changed to Atlanta), however the remake just sucks since the writing is garbage (they’ve tried their best on retaining the nuances from the original but did a bad job at it).
The Office. They replaced the brilliant Ricky Gervais with the black hole of comedy that is Steve carrel, and shit all over the whole point of tim and dawn’s characters, “they’re perfect for each other but for whatever reason it never happens”, so they could have a wedding episode and a baby episode for sweeps.
British office was only a couple seasons and 14 episodes. The US version stretched that initial Jim and Pam plot as far as it could go. They only started dating after 50 something episodes over 3 seasons and didn’t get married til season 6.
Good point. Stretching it out/milking it is another reason the US version was shit.
Ricky is painful
The character was meant to be stupid and cringy, the sort of boss who thinks he’s super cool and everyone loves him but really they can’t stand him. Most people have had a boss like that and Ricky played it brilliantly. Steve carrell played it like the lovable goofball who actually is friends with his staff. NBC took something real and unique and turned it into another boring generic workplace sitcom. Mary Tyler Moore did it better 40 years prior.
It was good, the US one is better. Its a rarity but well deserved.
Ricky manahed to find a role where being annoying worked and so he excelled, now we have to hear his pound shop takes on everything. Accountant Russel Brand