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Checking In With This Season of “The Office”

February 17th, 2010 · 7 Comments

Here are my thoughts, questions, and concerns about the current season of The Office. What are yours?

(1) Is anyone else disturbed by the subplot that has Ryan and Dwight hatching a sinister plot to destroy Jim’s life? It’s just so nasty. The show has always been rife with petty hostility, but it emerged in ways that were just goofy enough to be harmless and/or endearing. Creed’s bug-eyed freakishness, for instance, is too cartoonish to seem dangerous.

But when Ryan and Dwight get together, they’ve got a hard edge. They talk about murdering Jim. About stealing his personal information. And something in Rainn Wilson and B.J. Novak’s performances don’t let us off the hook.  They seem like they really mean it and that their vengeance could actuallybe wrought. It’s unsettling.

If the show’s emotions and motives are going to feel honest, then I want them to romantic emotions or empathetic motives. Jim and Pam’s love? Yes. Michael’s loneliness? Sure. Live it up. That lets me feel connected to and reflected in the show. When I sense real threats of violence emerging, however, I get freaked out. This is not the escape I look for in The Office.

Also, this subplot might bother me less if the violent threats were directed against Meredith or Creed or Angela. Again, those characters are just exaggerated enough that I don’t quite believe in them as real people. When Meredith gets attacked by that bat, then it’s kind of like watching Wile E. Coyote fall off a cliff: You know it’s not real.

Jim, however, seems much more actual. You threaten him, and you kind of threaten me. Not cool, sitcom! Not cool!

(2) On the flip side, I’m loving the Erin/Nard-Dog romance, even though the circumnstances are totally unrealistic.   I do not believe that a real man would ever buy his crush every item on the 12 Days of Christmas list, and I do not believe that a grown American woman wouldn’t recognize Snoopy and Woodstock on a Valentine’s Day card. However, I do believe these things about Andy and Erin because they are played with such commitment. The actors make their wild situations feel authentic.

What’s the lesson of these two bullet points? I think it’s that The Office always works best when it’s balancing perfectly on the line between the actual and the exaggerated, but if it falls over that line in either direction, I want it to be in the service of love-or-kindess-related plotline. Again, I don’t want that from every show, but that is what I want from this one.

(3) I love Kathy Bates as the ball-busting, big-haired CEO who now owns Dunder-Mifflin. I hope this character gets her own spinoff series that then becomes a movie, and I hope Bates wins a second Oscar for it.

(4) Bring back the cute boy in the warehouse! Oscar needs a date!

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7 responses so far ↓

  • 1 galonso84 // Feb 17, 2010 at 3:09 am

    I’ve had a similar reservations about the whole bankruptcy storyline. Reflecting the economic crisis in the show? Sure, I can buy that, and I kinda applauded the idea of it. But then the board of the company idly sits by while this dumb man-child promises an angry mob of employees to fix the company’s financial problems in an hour? And he never gets fired? Moments like that are so conflicting that they completely take me out of the thrust of the episode.

    And on a similar vein to your comments on Jim: I like Jim and Pam as a couple. Them going to visit a kindergarten? Super-cute. But Jim walking in on the teacher in the mini-toilet? That was borderline slapstick, and it really didn’t work for those characters.

    The Office has walked this fine line for 5 years, and only rarely faltered. But this season they have been doing that more than normal (and they were still reeling from last season’s Michael Scott paper company storyline, which I was ambivalent around). I still think this is a very good show, and I will continue to watch for now – I just hope they can find and restore that balance they achieved (admirably) in the past.

  • 2 Reese // Feb 17, 2010 at 4:05 am

    Re: the Ryan/Dwight subplot

    I was disturbed by it too. I know that for me, my intense dislike of Ryan is what is throwing off what I would think of this kind of plot or threat against Jim if it were Dwight and pretty much anyone else. Rainn’s commitment to Dwight’s absurdity keeps it from going completely overboard (note that even Dwight was disturbed at the notion of actually killing Jim).

    Re: Erin/Nard-dog

    I *love* that subplot. It is brilliantly portrayed, fun and totally sweet.

  • 3 Reese // Feb 17, 2010 at 4:09 am

    Ugh, I forgot!

    I am still giddy about Kathy Bates – brilliant casting! And yes, Oscar needs a date. ;)

  • 4 Sarah // Feb 17, 2010 at 6:36 pm

    I am mostly enjoying this season and I like the Dwight/Ryan plotting. I think it comes across as plenty cartoonish…almost like the two bumbling crooks in Home Alone or 101 Dalmations. I mean, yes, they are sinister, but they argue amongst themselves too much to get anything done. (The Martini bar/beet vodka debate alone keeps them from being scary!) Plus, now that the order has righted itself (with Jim back on Dwight’s level), I think that dynamic will fade a little.

    I think this season has suffered most from choppy scheduling. With the holidays, Olympics, and that tricky clip-show, I feel like we haven’t had a phase of new episodes in a while that would allow us to get our Office groove back.

    Erin and Andy are stealing every episode…I applaud the show for finding a new will they/ won’t they couple that is completely endearing, but still completely different than Jim/Pam. Fantastic pairing.

  • 5 badkittyuno // Feb 17, 2010 at 9:13 pm

    Personally, I’m more disturbed by Ryan’s clothing choices lately. Just when I thought the boy couldn’t get be more of a douche.

  • 6 Sasha // Feb 18, 2010 at 1:06 pm

    For me, the worst part of the bankruptcy/new owner arc is the prospect of never seeing my secret boyfriend David Wallace again – although I thought last week’s episode, with him out of work, disheveled and slightly clueless was a treat. It hurts when people leave that show (Holly, Karen – even Jan and Roy).

  • 7 Ricky // Feb 23, 2010 at 2:14 pm

    I love a good shark-jumping. Happens to the best of them.

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