Brian Damage
12-05-2011, 10:57 PM
Andy Bernard, The Office
Poor Nard Dog. His frantic need-to-please energy used to be part of The Office's delicate comic balance, but Steve Carell's departure threw everything off. Now Helms's toothy desperation is at once overkill and underdone: We had enough awkwardness and neediness from Michael Scott, so if you're going to go to that well again, you're gonna have to dig a bit deeper. The worst indignity of it is that Andy Bernard is the funniest when he's the happiest — say, gleefully singing some a cappella, or swooning over Erin — and yet the show keeps pushing him toward chronic confusion and ineptitude.
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http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2011/12/tvs-ten-most-annoying-characters.html#photo=4x00002
Poor Nard Dog. His frantic need-to-please energy used to be part of The Office's delicate comic balance, but Steve Carell's departure threw everything off. Now Helms's toothy desperation is at once overkill and underdone: We had enough awkwardness and neediness from Michael Scott, so if you're going to go to that well again, you're gonna have to dig a bit deeper. The worst indignity of it is that Andy Bernard is the funniest when he's the happiest — say, gleefully singing some a cappella, or swooning over Erin — and yet the show keeps pushing him toward chronic confusion and ineptitude.
http://pixel.nymag.com/content/dam/slideshows/2011/12/annoying-characters/10edhelms.jpg
http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2011/12/tvs-ten-most-annoying-characters.html#photo=4x00002