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We present you the ten best series of the 2000s. Of course with a comprehensive reason. Here we go …
10. The Office (UK)
Great Britain, 2001-2003, with Rick Gervais, Martin Freeman, Mackenzie Crook
When content and shape form a unit, great art arises. You don’t want to imagine what would have become of a series like “The Office” if you would have squeezed her setting into the corset of a multi-camera sitcom with a laugh. Series finder Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant show the dreary everyday life of a British wholesale company gray and coarse -grained, without music, with a shaky subject than the subject integrated into the place. The entire series consists of recordings of a fictitious BBC team that collects material on the premises of the Wernham Hogg group for long-term documentation. The figures present and produce almost all the time; Humor arises in the difference between self -awareness and actual occurrence.
Gervais once said that there was nothing more funny than a person who is also unable and arrogant. There is probably nothing more frightful than such a person. But whether something is particularly funny or particularly tragic always depends on the perspective anyway. People who have to work in lousy offices for an unspeakable asshole like the David Brent played by Gervais cannot look at “The Office”. There is hardly anything better for everyone else.
Gervais and Merchant are precise observers, and their accuracy lies the ingenious. Often humor is simply the visible of trivial, emphasizing human idiosyncrasies that everyone knows but nobody recognizes. Large comedians have a special antenna and are receptive to patterns that remain hidden for others. How Gervais drives through the greasy hair as a brent, his delightful breaks, the American accent, with which he plays his colleague: on the inside, played out his own songs that he writes songs at all, who then wear titles like “Life on the Road” – all of this is extremely funny and disarming, and last but not least, it is caused by humanism underlying the series.
9. Arrested development
USA, 2003-2006/since 2013, with Jason Bateman, Portia de Rossi, Will Arnett will
Comedy director David Zucker once said that the reason for the early removal of his series “Police Squad!”, The forerunner of the “The Naked Cam” trilogy, was that the series actually had to be seen. The fast-paced dialogues, which led the screwball-word battles, the many visual gags, which mostly became hidden in the background and often only became gags in comparison, the silly anti-plots, the common dramaturgies-these were silliness that required attention, and in 1982, i.e. Officially good, this level of claim was a death sentence.
“Arrested Development” started in 2003 and brought it to three seasons in his first life. The characteristics mentioned above may even apply even more: the series-a kind of mixture of daily soap parody, Sitcom and Mockumentary, in which the conflicts, intrigues and love affairs of a wealthy large family are negotiated-is extremely quick and constantly moving. An omniscient narrator mockingly combines the many storylines, meanders through the whole thing and cheerfully jumps through space and time. So you really have to watch the series so that it is worth it. Almost every joke sits, and the frequency is remarkable, the punch lines ignite every ten-second.
Over the years, the series, which was discontinued in 2006 from the favorite of critic and constant insider tip, blamed to the mainstream success. In May 2013, the fourth season was released at the streaming service Netflix. There was no cause for concern on paper, because Mitchell Hurwitz remained the head author and the ensemble returned closed. Nevertheless, the consequences were sluggish, the extra long Netflix duration did not do this show, which must be quick. The timing was not right, for the first time.
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