- IT CROWD, THE: THE COMPLETE FIRST SEASON (DVD MOVIE)
Have you tried turning it on and off again?
In the gleaming high-rise offices of Reynholm Industries, powerful executives oversee billion dollar business deals. But in the dark and shabby basement, the company s IT Support Team bitter slacker Roy (Chris O Dowd), socially inept Moss (Richard Ayoade), and their new boss, computer illiterate Jen (Katherine Parkinson) rule their own domain of professional irresponsibility, mega-nerd ecstasy, and random acts of personal insanity.
Producer Ash Atalla (THE OFFICE) and writer/director Graham Linehan (FATHER TED), present the most critically acclaimed comedy series of the fall television season and a 2008 International Emmy Award winner for Best Comedy, now featuring deleted footage, a behind-the-scenes documentary and much more.
“Kick Arse Comedy!” -Aubry D’Arminio, Entertainment Weekly
Buy “The IT Crowd: The Complete Season One” For Only $14.51
March 5, 2010
#1
Where to start?? If you judged this show by the 5 star reviews you would think this show would be fantastically humorous and tremendously funny. You would be 100% wrong on both counts.
The dialog is bland, stilted and wooden. The stereotypes are very one dimensional. The attempts at humor are more than not funny, they are painful!
Just for some background, I am a huge fan of the British version of The Office and of Extras. I absolutely get and enjoy well done British humor.
But folks….this stuff is just not funny. The abundance of 5 star ratings for this show are unbelievable!! Do not waste your time with this trash. I viewed this garbage as a library borrowed item. Even free, this stuff is overpriced!!
Oh….the laughtrack!!! AAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!
If only there was a “negative star rating system” I would give this show a “negative 5 star”
If you must view this program, please spend no money, go to your local library,check this out and view at your own risk. I was able to get through the Pilot and 5 minutes of the second episode before I gave up!!
Good Luck and my condolences to the people who truly believe this is humor as high art!!
March 5, 2010
#2
I know this is a poorly written review because I have a strong opinion (this show is horrible) and very little to support that opinion (because the show’s horribleness feels like an inherent property of the show). It’s most likely that the creators compiled a list of geek/nerd/IT stereotypes and cliches (probably copying and pasting from the first page of search results for “geek humor”), strung them together with some “zany” story lines, and called it a show.
I enjoy a variety of comedy – including some broadly drawn stuff – but this series makes Larry the Cable Guy and Dane Cook seem like Oscar Wilde and Bill Hicks. The earlier reviewer who compared this to the spoof sitcom seen in “Extras” was being way too generous. And those who responded to critics of the laugh track with the fact that this was taped in front of a live audience neglected to mention if there were armed goons under the “laugh now” signs. You know what, though? To each his own; just be aware that if you’re thinking about buying this based solely on word of mouth or the positive reviews here, I strongly suggest you try catching an episode on BBC America or elsewhere first.
I’ll end this with some of the show’s gut-busting dialog from the first season:
- (singing at desk) We don’t need no education…
- Yes you do, you just used a double negative.
and
- You know how suggestible IT people are.
- That’s not true
- Yes, is.
- You’re right. Of course is.
I do like the opening titles – it’s the best part of the show.
March 5, 2010
#3
Based on all the reviews here I went ahead and netflixed Season 1 of The IT Crowd and 5 of the 6 episodes were completely unfunny, some even painfully so. One episode was kinda funny, but the rest were simply terrible, the 3 main actors are really bad actors, no comic timing, relying on yelling to try and make things funny, which does not work. I am a British humor kind of guy but this was not good, maybe if you are an IT nerd or something, but for Brit humor I’d stick with The Office or The Mighty Boosh.
March 5, 2010
#4
If you have ever watched the (vastly superior) series “Extras”, and can recall their spoof of a horrible British sitcom (titled “When the Whistle Blows”), this is exactly the kind of series they were making fun of. Obnoxious laugh track, every single joke is utterly too familiar, and the characters are stock sitcom prototypes. In other words, watch this only if you enjoy bland network television. Repeat warning: contains obnoxious laugh track. And oh yeah, their idea of a geek joke is to remind someone that they need to hit the power button on their computer for it to work. *groan*
March 5, 2010
#5
This show is hilarious, in large part to the diversity of the characters. The misadventures of Jan, Roy & Moss are the funniest things to come out of Britain since Spaced. I totally recommend this dvd to anyone who enjoyed the British version of the Office.