Why The Office is especially resonant during the pandemic

[TMC]

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2...ove-the-office

"When you watch The Office now, if you peer past the shtick, the subtler details—moments so strikingly mundane that they might have seemed invisible a year ago—stand out," says Sarah Larson. "We might not have realized how going to the office lent our daily lives a sense of occasion, for example, but, seeing Stanley and Jim putting on their coats and scarves and trudging out the door, we do. There’s a wistful frisson in remembering that feeling: that we hadn’t accomplished everything we’d hoped to, but that we’d come back tomorrow, encounter the gang, and try, gamely, to give it another go."