The Office Australia

Based on the reviews, I started watching this expecting it to be terrible. I have watched both versions of the office, there are good and bad episodes in those versions (especially at the beginning). Honestly the Australian version is good! Set your expectations aside and give it a go. It's not the US Office or the UK Office, it's the Australian Office. They give it their own Aussie spin, with some familiar tropes certainly, but it works! There are some genuinely funny lines and it's extremely watchable! The jokes aren't recycled, they're new and hilarious. Ignore the neckbeard reviewers. This show is light and funny, that's all it needs to be.

The original British was trashed at the beginning, but people started to love the characters. The first season of the office, an American place, had bed reviews, but then they found their feet and once again we, the viewers, fell in love with the characters. The first view episodes are straight, because, most of the characters, we recognise, but they aren't the actors we fell in love with. So give this show a chance. Give this show to develop, like we did with the American version. It's interesting to see different versions of the same concept, set in different Countries. The first season gave me a lot of laugh out loud moments. Give it time.

Big fan of both the US and UK office. I'm also an Aussie.

This show is one of the blandest things I've sat and watched. I decided to watch it because while it looked bad, I thought let's see.

People say it gets better after the first episode, but it did not for me. It remained very bland. Maybe some of these people ended up with Stockholm syndrome, it held their sense of humour hostage for so long that they felt they needed to laugh and so they did.

The worst part is that I can see some potential in the series. It's not just a rehash of either of the previously mentioned offices (even though it does have so references in a few of the "jokes,") The characters while underbaked do have some individuality. I also did like the threesome joke even if it was completely ruined by the delivery in the scene.

I guess at the end of the day, could this show have been good? Sure. Is it? No.

Painful to watch, I need a refund and I didn't even spend any money to watch it. So bad I had to make an account just to review this show.

There is nothing new, original or funny about this show. The "jokes" are typical of Facebook mums. They love to punch below themselves and fill every second with the most unimaginative jokes possible. Pure leftist propaganda that is trying way to hard to be socially acceptable making it the most bland bit of media I have ever witnessed. It is more dry and lifeless than anything I have ever experienced in my entire life. Somehow they copied the original and left out every single part of the UK and US version that gave them any identity, life or realism.

Office Australia will face the same problems Inbetweeners US faced; it wasn't a terrible show, but it was nothing in comparison to the original and that sours the remake.

Office Aus has an even bigger problem, there's many different versions, most notably the original UK and then US ones. The characters are likeable, but mirror their mannerisms too closely with their UK/US counterparts. The show does add some originality with updated storylines that will resonate with a younger audience - or anyone who has worked in an office after Covid.

I feel the same writers, crew and cast could have created a watchable original show, it's a shame they went down this path instead.

I won't be leaping to watch Episode 2.