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Posted Apr 11th 2008 12:47AM by Jay Black
Filed under: Video, The Office, Reviewcaps, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S04E09) It feels really good to be back, doesn't it? My calculations might be a bit off, but it seems to me the amount of time we had off for the writer's strike was about the same as what we usually have off for a summer break. For some reason, though, it felt longer. Something about the cold winter months makes me long for the sweet siren song of Scranton, I suppose.
I wasn't there when we won WWII, but I imagine the joy I felt when a new
Office showed up in my TiVo was similar to what it felt like on V.E. day. I almost wanted to dress up in a sailor uniform and give Steve Carell a long, deep kiss in Times Square (though, to be fair, I almost always feel that way). I was happy
The Office was back, the only thing I worried about was whether it'd still be
good...
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Posted Feb 22nd 2007 9:59PM by Jay Black
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, NBC, OpEd, The Office
(S03E18) I've decided that
The Office isn't a sitcom. It's something
more than a sitcom. I'm not sure what. I might be crazy (in fact, the gnome that lives in my belly thinks I should be seeing a therapist), but I think
The Office is creating a new genre right before our eyes.
Is this hyperbole? Well, probably; this is the internet. If you don't use nine hundred exclamation marks, you don't get heard. But as I watch
The Office every week, I find myself responding to it much differently than I have any other show that I've ever watched. It's not necessarily the
greatest show in history (that's
The Simpsons), it's just
the differentest show in history (and yes, grammar nazis, I know that's not a word).
Hear me out on this...
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