Extras - The Complete First Season (DVD, 2007)

I am a big fan of Ricky Gervasis and also of the ORIGINAL "The Office" BBC TV series..So when I heard that he had developed and starred in this HBO series I had to get it, and for that I went right to Ebay!!! Great price....easy pay....fast delivery...LOTS O LAUGHS!!!

Fans of The Office UK and Ricky Gervais will certainly enjoy this comedy about the life of background performers. With star packed guest roles, this show does not disappoint. Those looking for Gervais to reprise his role in The Office will be disappointed- he plays a much more aware and caring character in Extras. This show does have its share of crude humor, but viewers will find less in this series than in The Office UK.

I saw Ricky Gerais in several movies and had seen an episode of Extras.I was hooked from the first episode and had to see more!Ricky Gervais and Ashley Jensen are hilarious!The characters are so great and the level of their naive ignorance is astounding! I have both seasons and only wish there were more!Can't wait to see the rumored movie!

Great, hilarious, just as seller described. I only wish there were more episodes. I wanted to buy it because I love the BBC office, and a friend had brought extras over recently. I laugh so hard.

After the British series of The Office came to an end, co-creators Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant were faced with an enviable problem: After making the most influential and acclaimed sitcom of the past decade, what do you do next? Amazingly, they've actually created an equally brilliant show: Extras, in which Gervais plays Andy Millman, an frustrated actor who can only get work as a "background artist"--i.e., an extra. Not only does the role continue to mine Gervais' gift for self-humiliation (which, staggeringly enough, may be even more excruciating than his David Brent's behavior in The Office, because Andy is more socially capable yet still can't avoid moments of jaw-dropping embarrassment), but Gervais has also persuaded a glorious variety of stars to tweak their own images. High points include Kate Winslet (Sense & Sensibility) teaching Andy's best friend Maggie (Ashley Jensen, Ugly Betty) how to talk dirty and Patrick Stewart (X-Men) describing his new screenplay about a man who uses psychic powers to remove women's clothing. But Ben Stiller, Samuel L. Jackson, Ross Kemp (sort of the British version of Michael Chiklis), and Les Dennis (sort of the British version of...well, there may not be an American version of Les Dennis) all also turn in deliciously ego-bursting turns. Merchant plays Andy's deliriously dense agent, but the core of the show is the relationship between Andy and Maggie. Over the course of six episodes, the interplay between this hapless, starry-eyed pair grows into a wonderfully tender portrait of friendship that perfectly balances the show's so-funny-it-hurts humor. The extras are few but worth watching: Along with a behind-the-scenes featurette, genuinely funny deleted scenes, and the usual clips of everyone forgetting their lines and swearing, there's a very funny sequence of Gervais and Merchant desperately trying to replace Jude Law (who had to drop out of an episode) with Leonardo DiCaprio. All in all, Extras: The Complete First Season is essential viewing.

I loved it. DVD was in great condition, product was listed correctly and the whole process was easy! This seller did a great job.

Buy it, get it you won't regret it. Watch it over and over again you'll find something new to laugh at!!!!!