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You can see that if you look at U.S adaptation of Britain or French series or movies, they often lose the tongue-in-cheek humor (if that term makes sense) in th
by conradfr 12y ago
You can see that if you look at U.S adaptation of Britain or French series or movies, they often lose the tongue-in-cheek humor (if that term makes sense) in the process.
The Office U.S became great when they stopped copying the U.K version and I don't think it's just a difference of bleakness as the article states.
- PMan74 12y agoOffice U.S. and U.K. are really different shows, US Office dropped all pretence of the reality/mockumentary, veering toward more unreal set-ups. Apples and oranges. Both are great, just different.
- Amezarak 12y ago> Office U.S. and U.K. are really different shows, US Office dropped all pretence of the reality/mockumentary, Did it? The US office continued the "looks" at the camera, the interviews; at one point the documentary crew was attacked (and it turned out he was in love with Pam), Jim had them make a video for Pam, and the very last episodes were about the documentary airing and a panel interviewing them about how they felt about their lives being filmed for nine years.
- maxerickson 12y agoI would guess that much of the difference is just in the trajectory of expectations. There's also probably a survey problem, the American productions that don't take themselves overly seriously and throw in some tongue in cheek humor aren't going to be the ones borrowing their ideas from someone else. "Burn Notice" comes to mind as a drama series that managed to throw in some humor without making it zany and obvious.