The Office – Season Five
Product DescriptionScranton’s most outrageous workforce is back to give their clients the business in the fifth hilarious season of The Office. Join obnoxious regional manager Michael Scott (Steve Carell) and his fellow paper pushers Dwi. . . More >>
My husband is in an office setting for his employment. He finds this show to be way too funny and it is on his DVR top list. I work from home and I do not get it. I do not find it funny. I find the humor to be an insult to my intelligence. There is just no way that people are that stupid. I can not imagine that humanity has gone that far. I have to leave the room when he plays this show.
Rating: 1 / 5
i never received my product. i don’t even know if it was ever shipped. I waited almost a month to contact seller to give them a chance. very disappointed. i got a refund back on my purchase.
Rating: 1 / 5
Season 5 of the Office would be best described as having moments of brilliance, but never able to keep those moments rolling. For those who tuned in to the first 3 seasons of The Office because of the Jim and Pam relationship, you’ll be very underwhelmed with what happens in this season. The writers tried several different tactics to keep their relationship fresh and interesting, but none of them ever seemed to work. Perhaps the greatest reason is because the audience could see the heavy-handed attempts to do that very thing. By the end of the season (and the worst season finale of the 5 we’ve now experienced) it is plain that Jim and Pam need to stop being one of the main focuses of the show.
On the other hand, Michael continues to shine this season. We watch him grow a lot in several different venues: business, relationship, and friendship. The problem, however, is again with the writers inability to take any of these arcs more than a few episodes before everything crashes back to the status quo where the audience is left wondering “now what?” but not in a good way.
Just like with season 4, there are few real stinkers in this season that just plain and simply put aren’t funny at all: Stress Relief, Lecture Circuit (particularly part 2), Employee Transfer, Prince Family Paper, and Company Picnic (the season finale) stick out badly. Fortunately, there are also real gems like The Duel, Heavy Competition, and The Surplus. Most episodes have one or two laugh out loud moments, some have several, others have none.
My best advice is to go into the season not expecting the greatness of Seasons 1-3, and just get the laughs you can. Is it worth buying? Yes if you have the other 4 seasons already and really want to hear commentary and see the deleted scenes. My advice to the writers: burn the dead wood and bring on some new, fresh characters (yes, replace Jim, Pam, Angela, and Meredith. )
Rating: 3 / 5
The seller, michael corset, never shipped the DVD even though Amazon sent me an email saying he did. I have been reimbursed for the order – by Amazon. Why are they asking me to rate this product? I guess this is more a vendor rating for Amazon with this particular transaction.
Rating: 1 / 5
This DVD set sucked. First of all the box was old looking, dirty, and damaged. The DVD appears to be some sort of weird ripoff. It was edited, and the actor’s mouths were blurred-out when they swore (not that that’s a bad thing. . . but it was weird).
Overall, I was very disappointed with this purchase.
Rating: 2 / 5