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The Office

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The main cast of The Office The Office is a American adaptation of the BBC series of the same name. It is styled as a mockumentary, that depicts the everyday lives of Dunder Mifflin Paper Company employees, based in Scranton, Pennsylvania. It involves the regional manager, Michael Scott; the receptionist, Pam Beesly; the accountants, Angela Martin, Kevin Malone and Oscar Martinez; and the numerous salesmen, including Jim Halpert, Dwight Schrute, Stanley Hudson, Phyllis Lapin-Vance, Creed Bratton, Andy Bernard, and Kelly Kapoor; the human resources person, Toby Flenderson; and the supply relations representative, Meredith Palmer. The series is also mixed in with numerous pranks, with Jim playing the majority of them on Dwight. This continuous back and forth makes the show a riot to watch. This show is one of the special few, due to the fact that it is filmed in the style of a documentary, complete with confessionals, and filmed with a single camera setup, without any stu

House of Cards

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Francis J. Underwood Claire Underwood This Netflix original is based of a U.K. miniseries of the same name, and takes a behind the scenes look at current U.S. politics, and the greed and corruption involved. The main characters are U.S. Rep. Francis Underwood of South Carolina, and his wife, Claire Underwood. The first season starts out with Francis as the majority whip for the House of Representatives, promised the position of Secretary of State in exchange for his support for the new President, President Garrett Walker. But, Walker reneges on their deal, and leaves Francis to pick up the pieces of the fallen administration. On the outside, Underwood accepts these orders; however, on the inside, he works with his wife to cook up a scheme to destroy Walker, and his allies, and get them all out of the White House for good. All the other seasons are about how the Underwoods just want more and more power, and the depths they will go to in order to achieve tha

Narcos

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Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria DEA Agent Steve Murphy DEA Agent Javier Peña Pablo Escobar Gustavo Gaviria This show is Netflix's take on the infamous Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar, and the Medellín drug cartel. It follows Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) Agents Steve Murphy and Javier Peña, and Pablo Escobar and his cousin Gustavo Gaviria, on opposite sides of a war that threatens to tear Columbia apart. Pablo and his band of lieutenants The show starts out with the early days of the Medellín drug cartel, moving on to the violent battle between the governments of Colombia, Mexico, and the U.S. all teaming up to bring down the power that is Escobar and the cartels of Colombia. Season 1 focuses on the uprising of cocaine as a substance, and the rise of Escobar into billionaire status. It also introduces the power of the President of Colombia, President Cesar Gaviria Trujillo, who, on many different occasions, aids wit

Archer

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Archer is an all animated spy sitcom, focusing on the world's greatest secret agent, Sterling Archer, who works at the International Secret Intelligence Service (ISIS) Sterling Archer Sterling reports to his mother, Malory Archer, who is the extremely selfish head of ISIS, mainly using ISIS funds for her own personal needs. Malory Archer Alongside him are his fellow agents of ISIS: Lana Kane, the top female secret agent, who is constantly frustrated at the organization, as Malory favorites her son as the number one field agent;  Lana Kane Cyril Figgis, the ISIS comptroller, who is plagued by a wide variety of "personal problems"; Cyril Figgis Cheryl Tunt, also known as Carol, Malory's deranged secretary, who becomes more and more unhinged as the show progresses; Cheryl Tunt Pam Poovey, the crude, gossipy, impulsive, self-indulgent human resources director for ISIS, who has a complicated history with Sterling;  Pam Poovey