The Office made me do a gamut of emotions. What I mean by a bunch is it made me feel for almost all the characters in the series.
I cried in select episodes. But the finale really capped the human emotion and oddness and the plain human feel that the Office is. I get the same feeling from Seinfeld and other shows but it is so brilliantly written. The raw emotion just gets at ya.
Anime does the same thing if it is really good. But I mean this is different. I felt very odd watching the show but the characters are so good and the references are excellent. And the consistency is even so great.
But yes to contain a show for 9 seasons is very difficult. The Office in season 8 the first three episodes were very paltry. Then it picked up and then paltry. I think this was either due to a writers strike or a goddamn changing of the torches, or the passing of the torches. But I thought I would despise season 9. But in all honesty again it started poor but this time it tried to capture the laughs and slogging through select episodes was hard , but I managed.
Season 9 really got better. It gained some steam. After Spader left Dwight getting his due was incredible. Andy was a dick but I forgave him eventually when he went and chased stardom. Pam and Jim you rooted for very hard, it looked like a dark turn with couples counseling, but in fact, they worked through their differences and Jim ultimately sacrificed an incredible job ...only for Pam. Then it ended up insanely incredible with bravado writing to get Pam and Jim to finally leave Scranton. Creed was finally arrested for his theft. He steals throughout the whole show, and finally he gets caught . But before any of that Creed sings an incredibly heart felt song about the people that worked in the Office.
The fact that the Office characters new they were being filmed in an actual documentary was a breath of fresh air. I love characters that are aware of what is going on. But it was super powerful to see Michael return for the wedding. This was the farewell episode. It was brilliant. I loved Meredith how she was very smart but extremely wild. Toby , was he the Scranton Strangler? Dunno. But he was intriguing. Kevin getting fired. I love Kevin. A buffoon in his own right but he talks about the follies that plague us all. He is extremely interesting because of his mistakes. Oh god! Seeing Angela and Dwight get married was like the second coming--when Pam and Jim got married. It was an incredible call back or tip of the hat to that moment. I cried. I cried. I cried. You see the character's growth after 9 seasons and you think of the full humanity. How good these people were and how good the actors were. The Office teaches you about oddities, love, connecting, friendship, death, comedy . It is all there and it to me is sad to see it go. I watched it in 3-4 months full.
To me it goes down as an all time great show. Laughing and crying and outright feeling uneasy and quirky. It captures amazing emotion and if you have never watched the show, you need to do it asap.
Ordinary people doing mundane things. But why is that weird?
`` So many shows to watch! I ' d say finishing Mad Men or some other shows is the next journey. Goodbye the Office. I will miss you.
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