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THE OFFICE
( NBC )
It's not just the other office anymore. The remake of the great British sitcom has found its own voice, satirizing the culture of coffee, cubicles and Chili's with heart and laser precision. The deep bench of its cast provides a pointillistic taxonomy of American office life (who doesn't work with an Angela, a Kevin or a Stanley?). Steve Carell's Michael Scott is not the tour de force performance that Ricky Gervais' David Brent was, but — perhaps in part because the writers needed to make him believable for more than 12 episodes — he's become a more-rounded person: an ass, but also sympathetic, and occasionally even competent. And the wistful Pam-and-Jim almost-romance — all together now: Awww! — threatens to give the Sam-and-Diane saga a run for its long-unconsummated money.
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