The Office
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When the US version started it sucked.
I couldn't believe gervais/merchant would do that and sell out so completely.
But I gave it a chance and now that I know the characters enough not to have to compare them to their british counterparts it's a lot better.The US version has become a series of its own. Jim/Pam are no longer Tim/Dawn but are their own characters.
Gervais played a very british twat. Michael is much more of an outlandish american twat, the concept of the show is the same but the humour is quite different.
I find there are less subtleties in the US version, the little looks and expessions are there but not to the same extent.
those brits who haven't seen the US series should give it a chance, it's probably the best comedy coming out of there at the moment, apart from Curb...