DescriptionScranton’s most outrageous workforce is back to give their clients the business in the fifth hilarious season of The Office. Join obnoxious regional manager Michael Scott (Steve Carell) and his fellow paper pushers Dwight (Rainn Wilson), Jim (John Krasinski), Pam (Jenna Fischer) and Ryan (B. J. Novak) as they steal customers, frame co-workers, indulge in intra-office love affairs and just plain behave badly while a documentary film crew captures their every word and misdeed. Developed for American television by Primetime Emmy® Award-winner Greg Daniels, The Office: Season Five features 26 uproarious episodes – including two one-hour specials, exclusive commentaries, webisodes, deleted scenes and more in a sidesplitting five-disc collection no true fan of The Office can afford to miss!Amazon. comSeason Five is not just another day at The Office, delivering break-ups, corporate shake-ups, and a game-changing finale that, as with Jim (John Krasinski), should leave you ecstatic and speechless. The writers continue their masterful handling of the Jim and Pam (Jenna Fischer) romance, taking care of some unfinished business from last season's finale in the season opener with a glorious rain-swept gas station proposal. Their initial separation--while she attends art school in New York--avoids the usual sitcom mechanics ("We are not that couple," Jim states as he aborts a panicked trip to see her). The course of true love is no smoother for The Office's other soul mates, Michael Scott (Steve Carrell) and "major dork" Holly Flax (an Emmy-worthy Amy Ryan), the new HR rep. Meanwhile, Angela (Angela Kinsey) and Dwight (Rainn Wilson) are having office trysts under the nose of her fiancé, Andy (Hangover star Ed Helms, having a breakout season in a career year). On the corporate front, Michael shockingly quits after butting heads with no-nonsense new boss Charles Miner (Idris Elba). In a brilliant stroke, Jim immediately gets on Charles's bad side, much to Dwight's delight. The formation of The Michael Scott Paper Company is a highlight of the season, as Michael and his dream team, Pam and Ryan (B. J. Novak), improbably put a major dent in Dunder Mifflin's sales (but at what cost?). For everyone who wonders how the blundering and tactless Michael keeps his job, it is instructive to get a glimpse of his sales acumen in the episodes "Heavy Competition," in which Michael poaches one of Dwight's clients, and "Broke," in which he negotiates a buyout of his struggling company. The Office's own dream team got dreamier with the addition of Ellie Kemper as "Erin," the adorable and naïve new receptionist. The Office still makes for cringe-worthy discomfort television (see a reunited Michael and Holly's excruciating skit at the "Company Picnic" in the season finale), but some of the best episodes are the ones in which the Scranton branch bonds in the face of adversity. A season benchmark is the episode in which the former Michael Scott Paper Company office space is transformed into "Café Disco" and all squabbles and resentments are forgotten on the dance floor. This season is representative of why The Office is one of television's most DVR'd series. Each episode offers priceless bits of background comic business and charming character grace notes that lend themselves to repeated viewing. Among them: Andy's drunken late night phone call to Angela in "Company Trip"; Pam demonstrating her volleyball prowess in "Company Picnic"; Kelly (Mindy Kaling) setting up one of the series' very best "that's what she saids" in "Customer Survey"; and Andy and Kelly's "dance off" in "Café Disco. " As Dwight notes in "Heavy Competition," "There's a lot going on" in The Office, and in that chaos, this series soars. --Donald LiebensonAlso on the discs This five-disc set works overtime with about eight episodes' worth of deleted scenes. Highlights include Pam bonding with her younger fellow students in New York, Kevin's revelation that he loves the smell of bacon on a woman, and Michael Scott on the loose with a defibrillator. The 10 audio commentaries are low-key, but informative, and some offer unique behind-the-scenes perspectives (one features craft services and catering personnel who reveal what the cast eats for breakfast). Along with the standard-issue gag reel, there are for completists two webisodes featuring the series' B+ team and synergetic promos for the Super Bowl and the Olympics. Andy Richter moderates an Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Q&A featuring the cast, key creative personnel, and crew members. A "100 Episodes, 100 Moments" countdown is open to debate (not one "that's what she said!"). --Donald Liebenson
My husband is in an office setting for his employment. He finds this show to be way too funny and it is on his DVR top list. I work from home and I do not get it. I do not find it funny. I find the humor to be an insult to my intelligence. There is just no way that people are that stupid. I can not imagine that humanity has gone that far. I have to leave the room when he plays this show.
Rating: 1 / 5
i never received my product. i don’t even know if it was ever shipped. I waited almost a month to contact seller to give them a chance. very disappointed. i got a refund back on my purchase.
Rating: 1 / 5
Season 5 of the Office would be best described as having moments of brilliance, but never able to keep those moments rolling. For those who tuned in to the first 3 seasons of The Office because of the Jim and Pam relationship, you’ll be very underwhelmed with what happens in this season. The writers tried several different tactics to keep their relationship fresh and interesting, but none of them ever seemed to work. Perhaps the greatest reason is because the audience could see the heavy-handed attempts to do that very thing. By the end of the season (and the worst season finale of the 5 we’ve now experienced) it is plain that Jim and Pam need to stop being one of the main focuses of the show.
On the other hand, Michael continues to shine this season. We watch him grow a lot in several different venues: business, relationship, and friendship. The problem, however, is again with the writers inability to take any of these arcs more than a few episodes before everything crashes back to the status quo where the audience is left wondering “now what?” but not in a good way.
Just like with season 4, there are few real stinkers in this season that just plain and simply put aren’t funny at all: Stress Relief, Lecture Circuit (particularly part 2), Employee Transfer, Prince Family Paper, and Company Picnic (the season finale) stick out badly. Fortunately, there are also real gems like The Duel, Heavy Competition, and The Surplus. Most episodes have one or two laugh out loud moments, some have several, others have none.
My best advice is to go into the season not expecting the greatness of Seasons 1-3, and just get the laughs you can. Is it worth buying? Yes if you have the other 4 seasons already and really want to hear commentary and see the deleted scenes. My advice to the writers: burn the dead wood and bring on some new, fresh characters (yes, replace Jim, Pam, Angela, and Meredith. )
Rating: 3 / 5
The seller, michael corset, never shipped the DVD even though Amazon sent me an email saying he did. I have been reimbursed for the order – by Amazon. Why are they asking me to rate this product? I guess this is more a vendor rating for Amazon with this particular transaction.
Rating: 1 / 5
This DVD set sucked. First of all the box was old looking, dirty, and damaged. The DVD appears to be some sort of weird ripoff. It was edited, and the actor’s mouths were blurred-out when they swore (not that that’s a bad thing. . . but it was weird).
Overall, I was very disappointed with this purchase.
Rating: 2 / 5