What Adrienne Thinks About That

I actually don't care for the British version of The Office.

It makes me uncomfortable and makes me think about work, which is exactly what I don't want to do when I'm watching TV.

I have this deep phobia that David Brent and I have too much in common. I've stopped making jokes with people who work for me because I'm afraid I may not be as funny as I think I am and I end up coming off as creepy.

Erin doesn't work for me anymore, though, so I'm totally molding her Swingline into Jell-O someday.

I've seen the first three episodes and I really don't think I want to see any more.

I'm sticking with 24, which is total escapism at its best. And Significant Others, the show that was on Bravo a few years ago, is the best cancelled show on Earth that isn't Home Movies.

I'm a Battlestar Galactica, House, and Heros man myself. I can't get into the office. I have much the same feeling about it that I have about Borat. I know it's not reality, but I always am made to feel uncomfortable by it. I don't like watching people be unaware of how pathetic they are. Or situations where a mean joke is being played on them. I haven't seen the BBC version, but that's the feeling I have about the US version.

I also have this fear of corporate America and the kind of jobs that many people are forced to have in these types of environments. It's like some absurdist world where one has a job, but it's not really clear what the job is or why the tasks are performed. It makes me think about purgatory. It's a soul-less existence, or so I project. I can't imagine going to work in one of these grey cubes in some beige strip of offices where plans are made to sell or buy something or other. It frightens me. I would probably just look at things on the internet all day (mostly WATAT of course, all hail the Queen).

I have season one of Battlestar Galactica in the coveted top ten slot of my Netflix queue. I'm reluctant to start in on yet another television series, but I keep hearing good things about this one from people who like the same sorts of things I do....

Galactica is like crack. I got season 1 and stayed up way too late night after night watching it. And as soon as it was done, I had to race out and get seasons 2.0 and 2.5. I'm now relatively caught up, but they are midway through season 3.0 (or rather ended seasaon 3.0 and started up 3.5). It's just an incredible series.

I've never seen the American version, except for about 10 minutes on a plane and it actually seemed a little inappropriate for mixed company, they were talking a lot about unine. But Meg Cabot and Adrienne like it, so I'll watch it eventually. But it's not appointment or even DVR material yet.

Well, of course, Meg Cabot going on and on about The Office on her blog did influence my decision to finally break down and watch it. She hasn't led me astray yet.

One reason I've avoided Netflixing Galactica is because I'm afraid of addiction. Seriously. I remember what happened when I Netflixed Veronica Mars, and that was only one season. It took over my whole life for two weeks. Three seasons of something has much more potential to disrupt things....

My sister wants to buy a 42 DVD set of seasons 1-7 of Charmed. I don't even want to think of how long that would take her to watch all those. Egad.

The people I actually like at work love the American version but being the snob that I am I have to watch the British version first, perhaps during Feb. break. I think British jerks are more sympathetic to our ears because of the accent, american jerks do not have any enchanting qualities so they are simply jerks.

Love Galactica, Heroes, and Studio 60. Have wanted to see the British Office, will get to it eventually. Was subjected to Season 2 of the American Office by my brother in law at Christmas. It was so uncomfortable that I couldn't turn away. I haven't seen season 1. I'm going to wait until 3 is out and Brian has it to watch it without interruption. It made me want to see the british one more.

I do love the pranks that Jim and Pam play...when I worked for the jackass in the theatre department, one of the ways I got through the day was daydreaming about such pranks...the difference is in actual life, its a bad idea...if you haven't seen them, try to catch The Office's version of, "The more you know..."

I forgot to include Studio 60. Sadly, it won't be around much longer. Too bad. Oh, also Dexter. I haven't seen the season finale, but that is one of the better shows on TV.

I watched the first five minutes of House last night and he did three of the funniest things I've seen in a while. I may have to watch a whole episode some time.

I think I would like House but every time I see him I picture him as he was in the BBC version of Pride & Prejudice and wonder where "duck-face" is (the British actress that plays the bitch in P & P and 4 Weddings and a Funeral).

I've never even heard of Studio 60, and I really have no idea what House is even about. I guess I assumed that it was about a house, but I'm thinking maybe not?

Studio 60 is the new Aaron Sorkin drama on NBC. But its ratings suck, so it'll probably die this season.