Matt N
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Yesterday, we started watching The Office Australia, which recently dropped on Amazon Prime. As the name implies, it’s an Australian remake of The Office.
We’ve only watched 6 of the 8 episodes so far. My current view is that even though it’s getting an absolute slating on IMDB, I think it’s actually quite good!
Many of the characters are quite evidently inspired by those in the US Office (I haven’t watched the UK Office, but I imagine there are some similarities with those characters too), but one key difference in this version is that the equivalents of Michael Scott and Dwight Schrute are both women. Hannah Howard is the boss here, and she is actually quite funny, embodying much of the same humour and cringiness of Michael Scott!
One key thing I liked is that they have modernised the premise quite nicely and made the storylines somewhat different from the US version. A lot of remakes follow their source material very closely in their initial episodes, but they have made the storylines somewhat different here. The whole premise of the first season revolves around Hannah bringing her employees back into the office full-time and trying to meet lofty sales figures in order to save her employees from the threat of being made fully remote, which is quite topical and certainly different from the original!
Thus far, it’s a fun watch, in my opinion; I look forward to seeing how it develops!
We’ve only watched 6 of the 8 episodes so far. My current view is that even though it’s getting an absolute slating on IMDB, I think it’s actually quite good!
Many of the characters are quite evidently inspired by those in the US Office (I haven’t watched the UK Office, but I imagine there are some similarities with those characters too), but one key difference in this version is that the equivalents of Michael Scott and Dwight Schrute are both women. Hannah Howard is the boss here, and she is actually quite funny, embodying much of the same humour and cringiness of Michael Scott!
One key thing I liked is that they have modernised the premise quite nicely and made the storylines somewhat different from the US version. A lot of remakes follow their source material very closely in their initial episodes, but they have made the storylines somewhat different here. The whole premise of the first season revolves around Hannah bringing her employees back into the office full-time and trying to meet lofty sales figures in order to save her employees from the threat of being made fully remote, which is quite topical and certainly different from the original!
Thus far, it’s a fun watch, in my opinion; I look forward to seeing how it develops!
