The Office: Australia (Serie) (2024)

It's probably not as funny as the American version, nor does it have the dark humour of the original, but it does retain that work environment that made it so special.

Most of the performances are solid and the casting is quite good. It's important to remember that you can't always get a cast as perfect and talented as the American version.

For fans of The Office, I would say that you will find many familiar elements in this adaptation; some you will love and some you may not.

Each version of this series reflects specific socio-cultural moments of its time, which, rather than a flaw, becomes a distinguishing feature that connects it to its other versions.

It is a modern reinterpretation of a classic, not a negation of its history. Rather than reinventing the wheel, the series updates and contextualises the essence of its predecessors, offering a fresh perspective without losing sight of what made them special in the first place.

For some, though, the content feels like a betrayal of the humour of the previous series. Whereas before there was a huge component of awkwardness and embarrassment, there is no such feeling here. Well, a little yes, we feel some embarrassment through the fourth wall, because we see the attempt to make us laugh that doesn't quite make it.

For me, both are very funny, and they move the whole thing by themselves, but perhaps it would have been better to have their own identity and present their own characters, because at all times they have reminded me of Michael Scott and Dwight Schrute, and I don't know to what extent that makes sense.

In other words, it's plagiarism, with an alarming laziness on the part of the scriptwriters, because they have limited themselves to changing the sex of the characters. Although it's true that the plots are new, some with potential, but they don't know how to cut the deck.