TV review: There is nothing new or funny in Australia's The Office remake

A glance to camera no longer works, because the viewer is probably viewing Instagram on their phone. So the gags go unnoticed unless one of the characters says them out loud.

Felicity Ward in The Office.

I think that’s enough remakes of The Office.

A lot of people were against the U.S. remake of the U.K. hit comedy. I was one of them, because I thought there was no way the Americans could capture the melancholy tragi-comedy of David Brent in the British version of The Office. It turns out they didn’t bother trying.