Comment by sanderjd
1 day ago
Very interesting! Except I noted that he referred to David Brent from The Office, and we have a direct corollary to that character, of course, in Michael Scott from The Office. They really didn't change the formula for American audiences, he's absolutely still a comedic failure. Starting in the second season, he becomes a bit more of a lovable comedic failure, but the basic point of the character stands. And he is beloved by American audiences!
So the exact opposite of David Brent. As the show goes on you don't discover a single thing to make you like him.
This is true of the Michael Scott character in the first season (which follows the same plot points as the British version).
And even in the next few seasons, the core run of the show, he's only a bit more lovable. He's still pretty bad!
But certainly as they went further and further along he became more and more of a lovable doofus, very unlike David Brent.