Why I love The Office
From our UK edition
‘That’s so Brent.’ You’ll hear that phrase a lot. I hear it a lot. I grew up in Willesden Green, a pocket of north-west London in the borough of Brent. Covering 17 square miles, it’s one of the bigger boroughs. I love it. The actor David Mitchell proudly lived in Brent while making the sitcom Peep Show. A show that ran for nine series, co-written by Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong, of Succession fame, and is widely considered to be one of the greatest comedy shows ever made. And yet, it’s not The Office. It’s not even close to The Office. My dad still tells me he thought The Office was ‘real’.
