The IT Crowd

Bad. So bad. A travesty. Do not watch. The original is a work of pure genius. This horrendous attempt to pilfer that genius will only make you question every life choice you ever made, as they all led to you watching this contrived mess

I decided to watch this after having seen the original. I've never been so scared in my whole life. The horror of American comedy sometimes.

There is a huge difference between English and American humor. If you don't get the English humor don't bother to try and understand it, you wont. Not ever! I'm not surprised the American version din't get any further than te Pilot...

This is a scene for scene remake of the British IT Crowd Episode 1, only this one isn't funny.

Joel McHale comes off as a lazy, inept moron; and not the lazy, but capable IT guy Roy is supposed to be.

Jessica St. Clair is too pretty and comes off too dumb for the Jen role. She is supposed to be secretly computer illiterate, not a complete idiot.

Rocky Caroll checks the diversity box and doesn't bring much else.

It's as if these 2nd rate actors are playing the roles of the British 2nd rate actors playing the roles of the show characters in some weird made for TV biopic about the IT crowd.

Except of course for Richard Ayoade, who plays himself brilliantly.

If we look back in television history the US has "Borrow" ideas from the British for decades. The list is too long to list. American television networks like to take successful British material because it's proven to have a market with audiences. They tend to Americanize the shows, using the stories and characters in an American setting in hopes that people will better identify with the stories. It sounds like they are lazy and want $$$$$ quickly instead of just doing it themselves.