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The Office –“Business Ethics”
“Business Ethics” October 9th, 2008 Any show in a fifth season needs to be able to do two things: to best utilize its long-standing character relationships, and to integrate new elements into the...
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The Office –“Crime Aid”
“Crime Aid” October 23rd, 2008 In what is quite definitively the weakest entry yet this season, we discover The Office falling into one of its many potential potholes (having Michael do things that...
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The Office –“Employee Transfer”
“Employee Transfer” October 30th, 2008 Remember last week? I was a bit underwhelmed by “Crime Aid,” feeling that it felt a bit too much like the show forcing a situation compared to the previous two...
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The 2008 Television Time Capsule: The Office –“Weight Loss”
“Weight Loss” Season Five, Episode One Airdate: September 25th, 2008 If I had a time machine as opposed to a time capsule, I would go back in time and keep Amy Ryan from being nominated for that...
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The Office –“Lecture Circuit Part 1″
“Lecture Circuit” February 5th, 2009 Only four days after I was admittedly frustrated by an hour long episode, we have a unique test of my concerns in “Lecture Circuit,” the first of two parts of the...
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The Office –“Lecture Circuit Part 2″
“Lecture Circuit Part 2″ February 12th, 2009 One. Big. Letdown. That pretty much sums up my thoughts on the second half of “Lecture Circuit,” which will go down as an entirely uneventful piece of...
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Season Finale: The Office –“Company Picnic”
“Company Picnic” May 14th, 2009 In what may perhaps be the Office’s most daring and diverse season, with the most substantial disruptions handled with the most impressive cost/benefit ratio, “Company...
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2009 Emmy Awards Nominations Predictions: The Tale of the Tape
The Tale of the Tape July 15th, 2009 Heading into tomorrow morning’s nominations (5:30 Pacific Time, so 8:30 Eastern and 9:30 for me in the Atlantic time zone), there are a few certainties, and a few...
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2009 Emmy Nominations Analysis: Power to the People?
Power to the People? 2009 Emmy Nominations Analysis The people have the power, and the people have pretty darn good taste. That’s the story out of this year’s Emmy award nominations (click here for...
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Season Finale: The Office –“Whistleblower”
“Whistleblower” May 20th, 2010 Last week’s episode of The Office was absolutely, unfathomably terrible: it embodied the absolute worst characterization of Michael Scott (as a purposefully ignorant...
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