Extras - The Complete Second Season (2005)

Gervais has done it again.

The thing I love about Extras is that it gives you the dose of cringe-worthy humour that The Office brought, but without recycling tired scenarios & using cliches or innuendo to get a laugh. Both of those things, I think, only insult the viewer.

Gervais' tongue-in-cheek look into the life of a struggling actor is a breath of fresh air. If you liked Season One, you'll LOVE season two.

My only complaint is that there wasn't nearly enough of Stephen Merchant. I think that man is a genius as a comic, and he has a way of simultaneously making you pity and hate him on screen. He's brilliant. June 4, 2008

Still Hilarious

While I found the direction of the second series not quite as fresh as the first, it was still brilliant and worth every penny. April 6, 2008

extraordinary

My favorite season of the "Extras" series. The guest appearances are great. We understand the characters now and can appreciate their interactions more. Too bad the show won't be going much further. March 25, 2008

Oh How The Mighty Have Fallen

I should first say that I am a huge fan of "The Office" and Season 1 of Extras. Season 2 however shows the creators as having nothing much more to say. Their mean spirited nothingness is eerily reminiscent of the demise of "Curb Your Enthusiasm" where the goal seemed more to push the ugliness envelope than to actually provide laughs. If a joke is funny, there is no topic out of bounds. Here the comedy is missing so all that remains are the same tired parlor games of season 1. Celebrities are jerks / fame is difficult, and the disabled or freaks are fodder for amusement. They spin this within the commentary but it remains a glaring deficit upon their work.
In this world of diminished quality it is heartbreaking when great workers fail and this DVD is testament to the limits of Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant. Season 1 and the Movie (Part 3) would have left a mystery as to their abilities, but "Extras" Part 2 seems an inside joke which speaks volumes about how success kills comedy. Like "Curb", misanthropy misapplied is nothing to laugh at. March 3, 2008

Hilarious!

This show is hysterical. The episodes with Orlando Bloom, Daniel Radcliffe and Ian McKellen are the best! Ricky Gervais rules!!! February 8, 2008

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