What is The Office about?
Nightmare boss. Tedious colleagues. Pointless tasks. Welcome to Wernham Hogg. Fancy a tea break with David Brent? Classic comedy from the archive.
The Office (2001)
A cringe-inducing boss and tedious colleagues make for darkly comic, witty, and dry workplace antics.
Dry wit. A comfort watch at a measured pace. Emotionally it carries some weight.
Streaming on Hulu, Max, Peacock and Hoopla (free).
The Office parents guide
It stays inside its TV-MA, with some innuendo or implied sex and no real violence.
- Scare
- Not scary
- Jump scares
- None noted
- Gore
- No gore
- Violence
- No real violence
- Sex and nudity
- Mild
- Mild means innuendo, or sex implied off screen, with no nudity.
- Language
- Moderate
- Some strong profanity, a few f-words.
How we rate: an AI reads what is known about each title and tags it 0 to 3; we check the tags against a hand-rated set and correct them by hand when readers tell us. Estimates, not a scene-by-scene review. Spot a mistake? Tell us.
Cast and crew
Created byStephen Merchant, Ricky Gervais
StarringRicky Gervais, Martin Freeman, Mackenzie Crook, Lucy Davis, Stirling Gallacher, Patrick Baladi
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