The IT Crowd
The IT Crowd
8.585%89%8.2
The comedic misadventures of Roy, Moss and their grifting supervisor Jen, a rag-tag team of IT support workers at a large corporation headed by a hotheaded yuppie.
Callum reviewedNovember 5, 2025
⭐⭐⭐⭐½ – The IT Crowd – Have You Tried Turning British Humour Off and On Again?
Few shows have captured the spirit of office absurdity quite like The IT Crowd. Set deep in the fluorescent underbelly of a faceless corporation, it follows three social misfits who keep the company’s systems running — and its executives blissfully ignorant. Moss, Roy, and their technologically illiterate manager Jen form the unlikeliest trio in television history, endlessly trapped between malfunctioning computers and malfunctioning social lives.
The show’s genius lies in its simplicity: awkward people, awkward situations, and the unending comedy that comes from trying to explain the obvious to those who will never get it. One of the best examples is when the team hands their manager a black box with a blinking light and tells her it’s “the internet”. She proudly parades it through the office — a perfect metaphor for corporate tech understanding everywhere.
The humour is razor-sharp, proudly British, and delightfully deadpan. It thrives on irony and understatement — the sort of humour that doesn’t need explaining (and loses all its charm when it is). The American remake tried to clone it line for line — even keeping Richard Ayoade as Moss — but British wit is like Marmite: you either get it or you really don’t.
Between Roy’s perpetual exasperation, Moss’s glorious eccentricity, and Jen’s blind optimism, The IT Crowd nails the beautiful chaos of the workplace. It’s a love letter to nerds, introverts, and anyone who has ever sighed while muttering, “Have you tried turning it off and on again?”
☕ Pairing: A mug of instant coffee gone cold — forgotten mid-debug, revived mid-laugh.