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Extras
Season 2
SERIES: HBO, Sunday 10:00p (30 minutes)

9.1 based on 13 reviews read critic reviews how did we calculate this? based on 6 votes read user comments rate this tv show

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Starring Ricky Gervais, Ashley Jensen, Stephen Merchant, and Shaun Williamson

The six-episode second (and likely final) season of the HBO-BBC co-production includes guest appearances by Orlando Bloom, Daniel Radcliffe and David Bowie.

GENRE(S):	Comedy
CREATED BY:	Ricky Gervais Stephen Merchant
FIRST AIR DATE:	January 14, 2007

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...

100

New York Daily News David Bianculli

As with the Gervais-Merchant "The Office," the more time you spend with the characters in "Extras," the more you feel their pain as well as laugh at their expense.

100

Slant Magazine Brian Holcomb

The writers have shown that letting the characters drive the story can make a form as tired as the sitcom new again.

90

Salon Heather Havrilesky

Gervais' timing remains impeccable, and Ashley Jensen is wonderful as his shallow, lazy friend Maggie.

90

Newark Star-Ledger Alan Sepinwall

"Extras" finally achieves the greatness expected of the Gervais/Merchant team with Season Two.

90

Seattle Post-Intelligencer Melanie McFarland

Few stars can write and play a kicked-in-the-mouth underdog as smartly as Gervais does here.

90

Variety Brian Lowry

Despite mining what appears to be a played-out lode (yet another showbiz-insider comedy, complete with self-effacing celebrity cameos), the pair find hearty laughs in discomfort, elicit riotous turns from their guest stars and even manage a touch of pathos in the travails of the show's hapless hero.

90

Washington Post Tom Shales

"Extras" lives up to expectations and to its own lunatic traditions.

90

Wall Street Journal Nancy DeWolf Smith

It is even more excruciating -- which in this case means better -- than last year's.

88

People Weekly Tom Gliatto

Andy's humiliations as a minor celebrity aren't quite as funny as was his earlier shame at being a nobody, but as a satire of showbiz vanity, Extras can still be described as (what else?) stellar. [29 Jan 2007, p.43]

80

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Rob Owen

There's no question that "Extras" is a hoot, especially for anyone who spends much time observing the ins and outs of fame and the media, but Gervais is correct that less is more.

80

Boston Globe Matthew Gilbert

[It] passes quickly but gleefully.

80

Chicago Tribune Maureen Ryan

[Season 2] is far better than the good but uneven first year of the show.

60

Hollywood Reporter Ray Bennett

There's more humiliation than comedy.

The average user rating for this tv show is 9.1 (out of 10) based on 6 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Office Fan gave it a10:
I can't wait for the next series. These guys only produce pure gold.

sean w gave it a6:
I know that I am in the minority, but Season 1 was much better. The characters are not complex enough in Season 2--all they do is make fools of themselves or Andy, seemingly attempting to piss off people, like me, who actually have a brain. Maggie, who used to be a nice compliment to underdog, average-Joe Andy, is now irrelevant. When Andy ceased being an extra, the show ceased being very good. We get it already--Andy's sitcom is a terrible half-hour long catch-phrase. "Extras" is becoming that way as well, with no heart and soul, and just a miserable profile of a new celebrity.

Lenny T gave it a10:
Gervais and Merchant cannot go wrong. This is a perfect comedy.

matt a gave it a10:
This is the best show on tv. I've already seen this entire season and it is way better than the first, which was pretty uneven (Kate Winslet, Patrick Stewart episodes-hilarious; the rest-pretty mixed). The David Bowie, Chris Martin, and Daniel Radcliffe episodes are better or on par with any Curb Your Enthusiasm or British Office episode. Still slightly under British Office as my favorite show of all time, but this season is pretty close to reaching that level of greatness.

Bob N gave it a9:
Honestly the best TV show I've seen in a number of years. Better than The Office (which is saying a lot). It's like an upgraded version of Curb Your Enthusiasm, mixed with a little Entourage, and a pinch of Arrested Development with a British twist. Highly recommended.

Michael gave it a10:
Alot better than first series by a mile. Good actors making guest apperrances. The only tv programme to make me laugh as much as this was fools and horse's, that says it all !

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