There are a lot of opinions about The Office Australia after it was released on Prime Video on Friday, October 18, and a brief skim online suggests they're not all positive. However, after watching some of it, I was surprised by two things that I really liked, and one of them is something that neither the US or original versions of The Office handled well.
Launching a decade after the US version of The Office wrapped and more than two since the original UK show finished, The Office Australia feels uncomfortably like a tribute act to the former. You can immediately tell which characters are meant to fit into which archetype, with the series trying hard to unnaturally reverse-engineer dynamics like the "will-they-won't-they" between the Jim and Pam and the rivalry between the Dwight and Jim. However, the show gives us something to cling to instead of the characters.
