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12-17-2024, 04:36 AM
https://jacksonupperco.com/2024/12/17/the-ten-best-the-office-episodes-of-season-seven/
Steve Carell announced before Season Seven began that this would be his last, and with that knowledge, this year is Michael Scott’s Farewell Tour, boasting big, memorable episodes that celebrate the show’s core character inside an arc that fulfills his objective by finally giving him the love he’s always wanted. A lot of fans enjoy this — it’s uplifting and triumphant. But Seven isn’t better than Six — it’s worse, for this buildup hastens other negative trends, granting the season license to become even more earnestly sentimental while crowding out premise-corroborating cringe comedy, all in favor of a “these coworkers are friends, nay, family” posture that’s, by now, so clichéd in this genre that its assertion within plot only accentuates just how much The Office has, overall, gotten less special.
Steve Carell announced before Season Seven began that this would be his last, and with that knowledge, this year is Michael Scott’s Farewell Tour, boasting big, memorable episodes that celebrate the show’s core character inside an arc that fulfills his objective by finally giving him the love he’s always wanted. A lot of fans enjoy this — it’s uplifting and triumphant. But Seven isn’t better than Six — it’s worse, for this buildup hastens other negative trends, granting the season license to become even more earnestly sentimental while crowding out premise-corroborating cringe comedy, all in favor of a “these coworkers are friends, nay, family” posture that’s, by now, so clichéd in this genre that its assertion within plot only accentuates just how much The Office has, overall, gotten less special.