TheIlluminati

@TheChaser1985 & @AtTheMovies - refer to my season 1 review for the reasons why you are wrong. I am pleased that a few years have passed and Metacritic has gotten off its backside to properly review this to add perspective to your idiotic 'reasoning' behind your concerns with the show. The US version is watered down and a weak knock-off. It's OK, in a 6/10 way, but the UK version is one of the most important comedies in the last 20 years, and this belief and obvious fact is reinforced by the universal acclaim it has received on metacritic. If you wish to try undercut the critical faculties of these 30-odd reviews then why are you even on metacritic? And @AtTheMovies - yes, it is because you are American. I'm surprised you even persisted with the US version as, without a laughter tracker, I am surprised you even knew when or if to laugh at all! Stick to 'Two and a Half Men' and 'The Big Bang Theory' please, and get your grubby pawprints off this universally acclaimed, superior (to the US version and to everything else) and stunning show. Leave the reviews of this quality and difficult-to-comprehend-for-the-idiotic-masses show to people with brains or who aren't too proud to admit it rains all over the US version (which I might reiterate is a remake of the UK version, which is almost a guarantee that it cannot even be as good, let alone better [and certainly is in this case]). Only a fool doesn't like this, but the appeal of this show will be lost on those who wait to hear canned laughter before they engage themselves. Best. Comedy. Ever. Done.

@TheChaser1985 - cont'd from Bilderberg: I mean without a laughter tracker the USA seems to be a bit lost, so I’ll break it down for you. Sarcasm is when you say something but don’t mean it, like if I were to say to you ‘I respect your honest, objective and logical opinions’ I’d be lying, but I’d be saying it for amusement (my own in this case). See how that works? Right, so you really don’t get British humour then, actually you don’t get anything unless it’s obviously packaged in America, has a laughter tracker, or is basic and straightforward pie-in-the-face stuff. So you’ve completely levelled any credibility you ever had, which was close to zero anyways. Great, next point. The only reason the show doesn’t have any reviews is mainly due to the fact that metacritic kicked off majorly in the mid-2000s, i.e. after UK’s Office had finished, I’ll point out the fact that even some series of Seinfeld (particularly earlier ones) don’t have many reviews on Metacritic and that is an American classic (no sarcasm there, just to keep you informed). So that proves nothing other than the fact that Metacritic doesn’t review retrospectively and have been too lazy to pull reviews of shows from the past. For your information UK’s The Office must be close to the move universally most critically acclaimed comedy either ever, or at least since the last great, universally accepted comedy in Fawlty Towers. The fact you speak as though you can decide what is and is not honest is absurdly naïve, deluded and arrogant (typical qualities of your creed) and is also completely contradicted by the fact you want to give the show a zero out of 10 score (an immature guise for anyone and by anyone’s gauge for immaturity, certainly when trying to be critical and fair) but you give it a 5 to protect it, thus not being honest with yourself or the greater public. You are just so confused and trying so desperately to write objectively but have no idea how. Thanks for playing, but you and I are on different levels (I’m on the considerably higher one just to clarify, since I have to water everything down for you to understand it) which is poetic in that so are the shows we are discussing here, and once more, to clarify, that means that the USA version doesn’t even deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as the UK version due to the fact the UK version spawned it, is superiorly acted, executed and better received critically and socially, and also because of the obvious fact that the USA version went to dust right about the time it started trying to write its own material. Brownie points to you for trying, but ultimately you failed. Thanks in advance for taking this aboard and becoming a better person because of it