The Australian Office landed mid last month on Amazon. Landing after a large number of negative comments following the upload of the trailer. Now that made we want to watch it more. Could this version of the British series of the same name created by (and starring) Ricky Gervais & Stephen Merchant, be that bad?
Felicity Ward is the boss in the office. With the eight episodes set around the hot button issues of 2024, WFH.
Also starring in the workplace comedy, Edith Poor, Steen Raskopoulos, Shari Sebbens, Josh Thomson, Jonny Brugh, Susan Ling Young, Raj Labade, Lucy Schmidt, Zoe Terakes, Pallavi Sharda, Claude Jabbour, Jason Perini, Christian Manon and Olga Tamara.
We have had a sea of Australian content over the past couple of months. Plum, Fisk over on ABC, Last King of the Cross on Paramount+ with NCIS Sydney set to return in the new year. Thou Shall Not Steal over on Stan (post to come) and Territory landing on Netflix.
So it's a good time for Australia, homegrown stories.
Hannah Howard (Felicity Ward) is the managing director of Sydney's branch of Australia's fourth largest packaging company Flinley Craddick. When she gets news from Head Office that her Rydalmere-based branch will be shut down and everyone will go remote, she goes into survival mode, making promises she can't keep in order to keep her "work family" together.
This issue is playing out in offices all across the nation. People are either digging in their heels to stay at home, or getting off their asses and heading back to either the CBD or new CBD's like Parramatta.
I actually really enjoyed these bite sized twenty something minute episodes.
The supporting cast were great. We have also all had a boss like Ward. If you are in a workplace struggling with the "hybrid" ways of working. Corporate speak, a dodgy office, this is for you.
Don't believe the hate, this was actually fun. Good on Amazon for pumping some money into local content. Bring on Top End Bub and Deadloch next year!
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