This show is funny. It's a great blend of real life business and amazingly dysfunctional people. Michael and Dwight stick out but everyone in that show has some flaw which makes the show feel more real. Add in the brilliant use of the "real life" filming style and you get a comedy that is not only funny, but has the element of feeling like this is really happening somewhere.

You have to applaud Ricky Gervais for taking the idea for a show already playing in the UK and (in my opinion) improving on it. I know a few people who watch the British version and they bashed the idea of an American version, but now they're hooked to both.

And finally, the acting is great. These people take you out of your world and seamlessly create the illusion that the people you are watching are real. With the power house acting of Carrell leading the bunch, I think this is a show we can expect to see for a while.

Nathan Fillion was an amusing yet dead end actor in his past comedies. By dead end, I mean that at that rate he would remain stuck in those comedies. However, Joss Wedon gave him the part of Mal in Firefly (even when Nathan wasn't sure it was right for him)and a star was born.

Fillon does a great job as an actiony smart-mouth who is at his funniest when backed into a corner. He has proved himself in the series, and then again in the film Serenity.

My question is: Why isn't Fillon at the helm of another role like Mal's? It dosen't have to be sci-fi; it could be an action show. Think 24 meets Firefly!