Yeah, sad is the perfect word I'd use to describe the UK Office. The characters give the impression that they're stuck in a deadend job/purgatory that they despise and things aren't made easier when their boss is acting like an incompetent boob. The sad part about it though is that the series hints that David Brent is actually good at his job, but the presence of a documentary film crew has compelled him to mug for the camera in an attempt to make himself look cool. So when he gets fired at the series' end he finally loses his cool facade and reduced to a pathetic mess.
Anyway, back to the topic at hand. I'd like to add a movie recommendation that caught on Netflix today:
The Ghost and the Darkness (1996) - Very loosely based on the true story of the Tsavo Man-Eaters, where two lions killed and terrorized railway workers during the construction of the Tsavo bridge on the Kenya-Ugandan railway in 1898. It stars Val Kilmer as Colonel John Henry Patterson and Michael Douglas as noted hunter Charles Remington.
Despite it's reported troubled production, I think the film they came out with is a decent historical adventure with a lot of thrills and suspense. Nowadays though, this film would get thrashed for glorifying mighty Whitey raping the African Continent. Never mind the fact that the African natives are given prominent roles in the film aside from the two leads. Animal Right activists would also lose their shit at the sight of two lions being hunted, despite the fact that the lions are the villains of the film.
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