Anyone else feeling like this show has just about played out the string? Last night's episode had its moments (e.g. Dwight tearing up the kitchen), but I think they'll have a hard time maintaining the funny without the sappy baby storylines. Is this the last season, or have they renewed for another season?
I hope it hasn't played out, but agree about the baby episode. If they use all the tired stuff about new parenting, they may lose me. When shows go with baby plots, I always wonder if one or more of the principal producers has recently had a child and they think they've got a humdinger of a plot machine. The baby experience is doubtless fascinating and engrossing if you have a new child. It is not unique and nobody has done anything interesting with this kind of plot development since the 1950s. When Jim and Pam learned that she was pregnant at the company picnic, my heart sank a little. The creative team is also struggling with the Andy-Receptionist romance.
Ok but, you gotta imagine the baby will be at daycare for most of the episodes as long as they continue to keep "The Office" at the office and not at home, which is what they've always done. Unless they bring their baby to work constantly, I don't think you're going to see very much of it.
The Office is starting to remind me of Cheers when it was on its last legs. Still some laughs, but a hollow shell. There's a good reason Ricky Gervais did two years and called it quits.
IMO, The Office isn't even the second best show in NBC's Thursday night lineup, trailing 30 Rock and Community. We still watch it, but I, too, get the feeling that it's beginning to peter out...
Still funny as ever to me. That show was hilarious. Oscar telling Michael not to bring the dictionary but to bring the thesaurus had me rolling.
There was really no process for me in quitting "The Office". I used to really love the show but about a year back I had an epiphany along the lines of "Why am I still watching this ********?". I quit mid-episode, deleted it from the DVR and have not missed it a bit since. The wife agreed 100% and that was that.
I feel guilty for half-hoping Pam didn't make it through the childbirth. If she had died (and somehow Jim died - comically - too), the office could have adopted the orphaned child as a group - and comedy would have ensued! Michael could finally be a father!!
