{"id":608,"date":"2026-01-10T17:00:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T23:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/?p=608"},"modified":"2026-01-10T17:00:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T23:00:19","slug":"extras-ricky-gervais-underrated-follow-up-to-the-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/?p=608","title":{"rendered":"Extras: Ricky Gervais&#8217; Underrated Follow-Up To The Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant\u2019s highly anticipated follow-up to <em><a href=\"https:\/\/screenrant.com\/db\/tv-show\/the-office-2001\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Office<\/a><\/em> \u2014 the showbiz satire <em><a href=\"https:\/\/screenrant.com\/db\/tv-show\/extras\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Extras<\/strong><\/a><\/em> \u2014 was met with a lukewarm reception upon its release, and it remains an underappreciated gem. After <a href=\"https:\/\/screenrant.com\/office-uk-vs-us-differences\/\" target=\"_blank\">the landmark success of <em>The Office<\/em><\/a>, Gervais and Merchant\u2019s next project had an impossibly high bar to reach. No matter what their next show was, it was being held to an unfair standard.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant\u2019s highly anticipated follow-up to The Office \u2014 the showbiz satire Extras \u2014 was met with a lukewarm reception upon its release, and it remains an underappreciated gem. After the landmark [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}