A-Season 9The Office: “Finale”Erik Adams5/17/13 12:30amEmbiggenEditSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalink“It’s like a long book that you never want to end and are fine with that because you never ever want to leave it”—Pam…
B+Season 9The Office: “A.A.R.M.”Erik Adams5/09/13 9:25pmEmbiggenEditSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkAt its lowest lows, when the lack of focus that followed Steve Carell’s departure made itself most apparent, The Office…
C-Season 9The Office: “Livin' The Dream”Joshua Alston5/03/13 12:00amEmbiggenEditSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkI’d like to start off by saying how honored I am to review the antepenultimate episode of The Office. I’ve never gotten…
C+Season 9The Office: “Paper Airplane”Erik Adams4/25/13 10:55pmEmbiggenEditSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkI wish the final scene of “Paper Airplane” made me feel something deeper.
CSeason 9The Office: “Stairmageddon”Erik Adams4/11/13 11:40pmEmbiggenEditSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkDoes The Office believe in true love? Before this ninth season, I would’ve said yes, but what’s gone on between Jim and…
B-Season 9The Office: “Promos”Erik Adams4/04/13 11:15pmEmbiggenEditSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkThe camera doesn’t lie. It highlights our faults, picks up our weaknesses, and records events we’d rather not remember.…
BSeason 9The Office: “The Farm”Erik Adams3/14/13 11:50pmEmbiggenEditSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalink“Sons And Daughters” closes The Decemberists’ 2006 LP, The Crane Wife, on a note of uplift. After nine tracks of…
C-Season 9The Office: “Moving On”Erik Adams2/15/13 12:12amEmbiggenEditSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkThe Office has a complicated history with one-hour episodes. Having navigated the choppy waters of the Jeff…
B-Season 9The Office: “Couples Discount”Erik Adams2/07/13 11:15pmEmbiggenEditSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkWe’ve been over the various roles Andy Bernard has played on The Office. But during his three-month, seven-episode…
CSeason 9The Office: “Junior Salesman”/“Vandalism”Erik Adams1/31/13 11:30pmEmbiggenEditSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkI do not envy Greg Daniels and the current writing staff of The Office. Theirs is not an easy task. It’s not like…
C+Season 9The Office: “Customer Loyalty”Erik Adams1/24/13 11:10pmEmbiggenEditSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkA documentary crew arrives in Pennsylvania to make a TV show about the modern American workplace. It’s not a glamorous…
BSeason 9The Office: “Suit Warehouse”Erik Adams1/17/13 11:45pmEmbiggenEditSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkI missed my chance to tour the Dunder Mifflin offices. A visit to Chandler Valley Center Studios—where The Office is…
BSeason 9The Office: “Lice”Farihah Zaman1/11/13 4:15amEmbiggenEditSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkJust as The Office once hinged on the relationship between Michael Scott and his mostly unwilling flock, so it depended…
B-Season 9The Office: “Dwight Christmas” Caroline Framke12/07/12 2:45amEmbiggenEditSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkWhen The Office gave in to the idea that these people could care for each other rather than just tolerate each other,…
A-Season 9The Office: “The Target”Erik Adams11/30/12 12:20amEmbiggenEditSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkIf asked to identify the Office equivalent of jumping the shark, I’d go with “drowning the car.” That scene in “Dunder…
CSeason 9The Office: “The Whale” Erik Adams11/16/12 12:00amEmbiggenEditSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkFor an artistic endeavor that’s lasted as long as The Office—and been touched by as many hands as this series…
B+Season 9The Office: “The Boat”Erik Adams11/09/12 12:20amEmbiggenEditSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkThe biggest distinction between The Office and its British predecessor is the very, very American notion of not…
B-Season 9The Office: “Here Comes Treble”Erik Adams10/25/12 8:30pmEmbiggenEditSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkWho is Andy Bernard? I ask this not to psychoanalyze the character, but to get a firmer grip on a presence that’s now…
B+Season 9The Office: “Work Bus”Erik Adams10/19/12 12:25amEmbiggenEditSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkAt a certain point, The Office had to run out of stories it could set in the, you know, office. There’s a historical…
BSeason 9The Office: “Andy’s Ancestry”Erik Adams10/05/12 12:05amEmbiggenEditSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkIf you read a lot about television, you’ve probably seen this truism (or some variation of it) bandied about around…
