What is The Office about?
The everyday lives of office employees in the Scranton, Pennsylvania branch of the fictional Dunder Mifflin Paper Company.
The Office (2005)
Cringe humor and witty banter create heartwarming, nostalgic moments in a measured, whimsical office workplace.
Dry wit. A comfort watch at a measured pace. Emotionally it carries some weight.
81
Must Watch
CouchRot Score, from 16 cinephile ratings
Streaming on Peacock.
The Office parents guide
It stays inside its TV-14, with some innuendo or implied sex and some strong language.
Our estimate: fine from about 13. Rated TV-14.
- 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.
ConfidenceDialing In
16 ratings deep. Getting dialed in.
ConsensusMixed Opinions
DividedNear unanimous
How the 16 ratings land
Cast and crew
Created byGreg Daniels
StarringRainn Wilson, John Krasinski, Jenna Fischer, Ed Helms
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