The Americans find it very hard to act natural. The American boss is a bit too surreal - someone who knows he's acting. The Gareth equivalent gets a C-. The American Tim seems to be trying to be directly modeling the acting of British Tim, with every twitch of his eye muscles. Direct scenes taken from the British version are a shell of the original comedy, as was to be expected. Everything's the same except Hilary Rodham Clinton = Camilla Parker Bowles, and nothing is as funny. I wish I could have seen this show without having seen the better British version, to see if it might possibly be funny.