After waiting nearly a year, I've finally seen The Office Special, the final episode. Been feeling a bit under the weather today, regretting that I didn't feel up to going to down to UIC to see DJ Spooky perform, but watching the show (with a few pints -- of High Life, but still pints) put me in better spirits. The special was all I'd hoped for. I agree with Letterman, The Office might just be the greatest TV series ever and after a comedy like this, it'll be damn near impossible to ever watch a sitcom again. I first saw the series when I was visiting Ira in Leeds over the Christmas 2002 holidays. For a week BBC 2 broadcast a different episode from the first season each night, and we stayed in at her flat to catch every one. (Not that we could've afforded to be out at the pubs for long anyway. The dollar was weak back then too, and meagre grad skool stipends don't go far.) I was hooked from the start.
The first episode was like nothing I'd ever seen before on TV. Some of the scenes were so excruciatingly painful to watch -- it was like some alternative universe where Harold Pinter and Nick Cave were writing for TV, after having been forced to work in a dead-end, white-collar, cubcile-dwelling office job. Just fucking brilliant. If you screen the DVD, but sure to watch the extra, especially David Brent's videos. The ending of the series truly surprised me, but I won't 'give it away' here, even though y'all probably have BBC America or the actual BBC. Glad to see the crew go out on top. Cheers!
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