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The IT Crowd
EMAILPRINTSERIES: IFC, Tuesday 10:00p (30 minutes)
Generally favorable reviews
Based on 8 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 27 votes
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Show Info
Genre(s): Comedy
Created By: Ash Atalla
First Air Date: September 30, 2008
Summary
Starring Richard Ayoade, Chris O'Dowd, and Katherine Parkinson
The imported British comedy about a group of help-desk workers is to be remade for NBC.
Episode Guide & More Info: More about this show at TV.com
Also On The Web: Official Show Site Official Show Site (UK)
What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Hollywood ReporterBarry Garron
There is a universality to "IT" that makes at least some of it instantly relatable. Ayoade, O'Dowd and Parkinson are terrific as employees who want only to keep their jobs but not let them interfere with their personal lives.
Read Full Review >LA WeeklyRobert Abele
It’s old-school silly, filmed--defiantly, in these laugh-track-less days--in front of a studio audience, rich with sublimely broad performances, appreciative of the well-timed one-liner and the pratfall, in love with jokes of camera placement and confident in the healing power of a running gag.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles TimesRobert Lloyd
That the funniest straight-ahead sitcom of the American fall television season is a 2-year-old British import airing on a basic-cable network is because of a few things: a dearth of new American sitcoms, the availability of road-tested foreign product, and the ongoing expansion of the vast tracts of basic cable into the kind of programming that has traditionally defined broadcast television.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Daily NewsEllen Gray
I suspect anyone who's ever called a "help" desk seeking actual help, only to be asked, "Have you tried turning it off and on again?" won't need a translator to laugh themselves silly over The IT Crowd.
Read Full Review >Entertainment WeeklyAubry D'Arminio
This funny U.K. import's premiere introduces snobbish techie Moss (Richard Ayoade), his luckless-in-love buddy Roy (Chris O'Dowd), and their pretty but computer-illiterate new boss Jen (Katherine Parkinson).
Read Full Review >VarietyBrian Lowry
So far, so good, but while writer-director Graham Linehan (working with "The Office" producer Ash Atalla) has created a vivid trio of oddball characters, his ingenuity doesn't extend to finding consistently amusing situations in which to put them.
Read Full Review >The New York TimesGinia Bellafante
The IT Crowd packages feeble stereotypes and then hits the send button.
Read Full Review >Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob Owen
This story of two computer I.T. guys and their computer illiterate boss is overly obvious and plays on stereotypes in an over-the-top way that may have been au courant in the '80s but feels woefully dated today.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this show is 8.0 (out of 10) based on 27 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
hooday p gave it an8:
Good stuff, fawlty towers still my favorite british sitcom but this is super funny.
Michelle P gave it a10:
I have to agree, I wasn't quite impressed with the first episode. But It truly has developed into one of the funniest shows I've seen to date. This American gives the I.T. Crowd a huge thumbs up!
Michael Z gave it a10:
First ep was avg. Only went uphill from there. By season 2 it has eclipsed all other comedy.
f p gave it a0:
Have you ever heard of the American sitcom Arrested Development? That was well crafted character driven comedy. This is utter garbage. Not even Noel Fielding's character was up to par.
J M gave it a3:
It is certainly the case that anyone who would presume that an American reviewer is incompetent by virtue of their nationality is a sub moronic bigot. This show is mediocre. The characters are weak when compared to those in a show like the office or even The Mighty Boosh and the comedy is overt and amateur, Mad TV style comedy. The assertion that the negative reviews indicate some lack of understanding of what goes on in IT is absurd. The show's comedy is not subtle and it is far from cleaver or insightful. I would say that the quality of the reviews apportioning this show a rating of 10 speak the loudest about the target audience of this show.
Josh B gave it a9:
Anyone who gave this show a negative review must be basing their opinion on a single episode. This show got much better halfway through the first season and the first episode of season two was one of the funniest half hours of comedy I've ever seen.
Andrew S gave it a10:
It is quite evident that the reviewers on this are mostly American and do not understand the people this is aimed at, or the humour involved.
