Stromberg (Seasons 1–5)

Stromberg (2004) is a German workplace comedy you can watch online on iFILM. Bernd Stromberg runs the claims department at the Capitol insurance company and is convinced he's a born leader. His staff would beg to differ.

Shot as a mockumentary, the camera keeps catching the boss mid-blunder — bullying one moment, groveling the next, always ready to pin his failures on someone below him. Christoph Maria Herbst makes Stromberg equal parts vain and spineless, and that's where the cringe comedy lives. The setup owes a clear debt to the UK's The Office, yet German bureaucracy gives it its own flavor: feuds waged by memo, team-building events nobody survives intact. Directed by Arne Feldhusen, it ran for years and became one of the most awarded comedies on German television. Stream Stromberg online on iFILM.