UK sitcoms tend to be darker than American ones, encouraged by a powerful public broadcasting system whose aim is to serve the varying tastes of taxpayers, not the upbeat preferences of advertisers, and by a national psyche fixated on the immutability of the class system, not on a dream of self-improvement. Americans believe that things will get better. Brits laugh at how things stay the same. To become a hit in the United States, The Office not only had to transform the tragic, grating boss into a less tragic, less grating, more well-meaning boss; it had to cast off the message, central to the British original, that work is where you go to waste your life.
>>70255925
I feel like the first season of the US Office was more subtle and darker (which I assume the original was), but the humor was still pretty American. I would have loved every season if Jim and Pam never got together and the show didn't devolve into a soap opera. I liked the Michael/Jan dynamic though, very dark and realistic
t. pleb who hasn't seen any of the UK version
>>70257459
First season of us office copied uk version heavily
>>>/reddit/
>>70255925
>it had to cast off the message, central to the British original, that work is where you go to waste your life.
Oh, how low the once mighty Empire has fallen...
> encouraged by a powerful public broadcasting system whose aim is to serve the varying tastes of taxpayers, not the upbeat preferences of advertisers
BBC is a political propaganda machine.
PS. Advertisers don't care about how upbeat/downbeat a show is. They only want to sell as many ads as possible, which is usually achieved by producing easygoing entertainment.
its quite obvious that US humour is dumbed down
>>70258600
>implying bongs are any smarter on average
>implying dark humour is difficult to grasp
It boils down to matter of taste.
>>70258635
>triggered yank
laughing
>>70258683
I'm a Finn.
Didn't the UK Office just air for like one season?
When will Britcucks stop being so insecure about us bros?
>"D-Do you guys remember our version of the Office??"
How pathetic can they be?
>>70258703
Post mammi.
The original > my own country's version > US version
>>70255925
>it had to cast off the message
And the concept, entirely.
Lets take a sitcom thats biggest selling point is that it's pretending to be a documentary but in our version we'll name the actors in the titles and one of them will be Steve fucking Carell. Better not change the name though.
