{"id":134,"date":"2006-02-09T13:29:25","date_gmt":"2006-02-09T13:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.adamsweet.org\/?p=134"},"modified":"2015-07-21T11:12:27","modified_gmt":"2015-07-21T10:12:27","slug":"the-it-crowd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adamsweet.org\/?p=134","title":{"rendered":"The IT Crowd"},"content":{"rendered":"

I can’t have been the only geek in the UK eagerly awaiting the first episodes of Channel 4<\/a>‘s new IT comedy, The IT Crowd<\/a>, about a pair of awkward, ill-fitting, female starved IT support geeks, lost in the basement of a corporate building, managed by an attractive, computer illiterate young woman.<\/p>\n

Maybe I’m too much of a geek, but the premise is ripe for comedy and witty one-liners. Geeks share so much in-joking and clever word play that I was expecting some compulsive viewing. Something seminal that geeks would remember, like say War Games<\/a>, but in an office or The Office<\/a> about computer nerds or something. Something that would appeal to people who have to deal with geeks as much as it would to the IT support, geek and hacker fraternity.<\/p>\n

Sadly, I was very disappointed. The show opts for cheap parodies, exaggerated characters and farcical comedy, almost in the same kind of way that The Producers<\/a> annoyed me so much<\/a>. It was such a disappointment. I really thought that it could have been a great show if it had been written with clever, witty jokes rather than cheap, lowest common denominator puns.<\/p>\n

It could have been so much better. Maybe somebody will do it better next time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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