Billable Hours

I had to comment on this show simply to boost it's undeserved 3 stars it was getting. It's rare Canadian shows can deliver and especially compare with US big budget shows but somehow Billable hours works.

Its fun bittersweet corky jokes get quick laughs yet are just valid enough so that office workers can somehow relate to their context. Characters still seem very shallow (even for lawyers!) so i don't know how long this series will last but slowly over the years i hope through twists of events (romance, good friend bad friend..., new hires...) some development will take place.

Overall, if The Office and Scrubs had a Canadian Torontonian baby this show would be it... for better or worse :)

Billable Hours is a great workplace comedy. The show follows a group of lawyers at the hopefully fictional firm of Fagen and Harrison. It's can be crude, it's often crash, it relies on a lot of old stand clichés, nurses stereotypes, and it does so perfectly.

While there are a few episodes that seem to drag a bit, most are watchable time and time again. The writers are not afraid to push the characters. Sadly the show is not popular enough to use great lines like "swallowing is 9/10th of the law" to any but your closest friends who will give you a chance to explain or show a clip.

The cast seems to have genuine chemistry and the actors never come across and trying too hard and seem to throw themselves at what is often very odd material.

Watch the gang waste their time and torture each other and you will enjoy it.

This show is hilarious for any modern office worker.

I trust it will become a classic like the movie 'Office Space'.

It's funny yet true how little actual work gets done, in our modern automated economy. They debate such things as parking spots, ghost e-mails, other pranks, and office chairs.

Especially for lawyers, who get associates to do all the work, then mark it up and charge you $500 per hour.

Those 'critics' that don't like this show likely never worked in an office before.

(or more likely never worked before.)

Ignore the naysayers. This series is one of THE great sitcoms. If you don't get it, you don't really like good comedy IMHO. Great cast, great scripts, this has it all. Office sitcoms are a dime a dozen but this is a rare bird, a sitcom set in a law firm, that is incredibly witty and funny and cauatic and graced with three really talented and charismatic leads that you cant help but love. It's a standard sitcom format, not a pseudo documentary like The Office, but there is no intrusive laugh track, the leads are terrific and the supporting cast are just wonderful, grrat music amd a killer theme. This is really one of the best Canadian series I have seen, and hands down one of the most underrated and overlooked TV comedies of the 2000s. It deserves to be much better known and holds its own against any sitcom. 10/10 for me. I want to be Clark Claxton III when I grow up.

Well, contrary to the person in the first inappropriate and unneeded comment, I happen to LOVE this show. The writing, acting and everything else with this show is almost correct. The chemistry all of the actors have is simply amazing. (Though I would like to see tag's character do a little bit more.) And the last thing that I would have to say is that the writing is far more realistic in the fact that they all use curse words in their everyday conversations, just like the youth and young adults, and practically everyone else, of today do. I really love this show and am hoping for at LEAST 3 seasons! Also, it is needed to let everyone out there know that I want ever so badly to be a television writer, but have been to lazy and barely completed a script. But, after last nights episode of Billable Hours, I have found what was missing from myself to go all out and build my portfolio: passion. See, before watching last nights episode, I had all of these ideas in my head, but again there is the laziness. After watching the episode, I went to bed @ 11, and got up @ 12 am and wrote for an hour. So, in conclusion, I say watch Billable Hours, and please, PLEASE go into it with an open mind so hopefully you will be able to enjoy and fall in love with it like I and all of my roomies have.

Peace!