The IT Crowd: Season 2

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In the cluttered basement of a corporate skyscraper dwells the IT department of Reynholm Industries, composed of three misfits: Slacker Roy (Chris O'Dowd), technogeek Moss (Richard Ayoade), and Jen (Katherine Parker), an ambitious but incompetent executive who knows nothing about technology yet wound up as head of the department. As the second season begins, these three have settled into a friendly relationship, but the revelation of financial misdoings turns the corporation itself topsy-turvy. Each episode takes a simple premise and escalates to absurd heights. Moss decides to take a cooking class and ends up friends with a German cannibal; Jen finally gets a new boyfriend... who turns out to have an extremely unfortunate name; Jen's bra doesn't fit well, sending Moss on an inventing spree that may skyrocket Jen up the chain of command. The best episode opens the season, when a trip to the theater turns into a festival of appalling misunderstandings; it's a perfectly orchestrated farce that culminates in Roy trapped in a wheelchair despite having no injuries at all. Perhaps the only off-note is a goth IT guy named Richmond who recurs but rarely meshes with the rest of the tightly wound plots. But that's a minor quibble, as the rest of the cast is excellent. Ayoade turns introverted genius into comic gold, in a similar vein to Jim Parsons on The Big Bang Theory; fans of that show should definitely give this British cousin a look. Created by the delightful writer/director Graham Linehan, who previously worked on Father Ted and Black Books. --Bret Fetzer

Product Description

Most know them only as the apparitions who materialize to work their elusive magic on cryptic error messages and computer meltdowns before vanishing just as suddenly as they appeared. But in this British sitcom, the long-suffering workers known as the IT Department finally get their due. Fans of THE OFFICE will likely enjoy this bubbling workplace satire, which focuses on hot-tempered techno-toiler Roy (Chris ODowd), hapless nerd Moss (Richard Ayoade), and their pretty, computer-illiterate manager, Jen (Katherine Parkinson). from a dilapidated den in the basement of a London skyscraper, the team fights a daily battle against impaired office equipment, malfunctioning employees, and each other. This collection presents the second season of the series. Starring Richard Ayoade, Chris O'Dowd, Katherine Parkinson Special Features: Full Frame Audio: (unspecified) English Additional Release Material: Outtakes Audio Commentaries Recording the IT Crowd' Runtime: 144 Minutes.

Review

A direct descendant of FAWLTY TOWERS --Wired Magazine

Outrageously funny… Combines the humor of THE OFFICE with the slapstick camaraderie of SEINFELD. --TV DVD Reviews.com

Deliriously funny… One of the lunatic joys of the comedy year --LA Weekly, ISBN13: B001YYQA0K ISBN10: B001YYQA0K Material Type: dvd