this very english sit com contain a series of under perform human being who spend 8 hour a day together in a small law office . we all recognise element of them either in ourselves or in others yet how to describe them . why do the english not have the exact word . because we would consider it unkind to give harsh label to the harmless . the dalmation dotty hopeless young colin . bumble bob permanently paralyse by a mixture of passion and embarrassment . stella represent the real engine of the establisment but never get work and a love life in sync . young darren his school friend would be out steal car but darren have and relatively and a conscience and some ambition and and have rise to the level of office dog body . alison a bored and beautiful bitch . dick posh senior partner and clever and clubbable and terminally lazy . an excellent and often accomplish cast . this be at time hilarious comedy . it because we do not have the word to precisely categorise every kind of fool that it remain kind and not judgemental . we get to like them all in different way . there be a self efface quality about simon nye write too clever but never flashily so . oddly it remind me a little of king of queen entirely different set but similarly human and not unkind .