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*maybe I don't
Actually, if most of the major cast members would just leave and the show centered around only the newer people next season, it might be OK. I guess it would kind of be like that final season of "Scrubs" that centered on just the interns.
Add Clark Duke, maybe a few other people, center on that newer young female employee who joined the show last season (can't remember her character name), Erin, Andy, and Nelly Bertram only.
Get rid of Pam, Jim, Dwight, Angela, Darryl, Oscar, Meredith, and Kevin. I guess keep Phyllis, Stanley, and Creed if you want, for continuity. That would be the only way I'd be interested, because it would seem like a completely different show.
Didn't Robert California's wife join the cast? Did I dream that?
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That was a one episode thing. If I remember correctly she found out at the end that Robert secretly didn't want her working with him so she quit.
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they should gut the team. then tank the season, hope for a high draft pick and draft a superstar. surround them with two or three all star caliber complementary upstarts and a slew of unique one-note bit players.
then wait for the awards to roll in.
grantland here i come.
Between "30 Rock" ending this season, "The Office" ending this season, and Kristen Wiig and Andy Samberg gone from SNL (with Jason Sudeikis, Seth Meyers, Fred Armisen, and Bill Hader probably joining them soon), 2013-2014's gonna be a really interesting time for NBC. They will have pretty much nothing to rely on that's been popular for them over the last 6-7 years.
Weren't NBC pulling an indianopolis colts move, and dropping everything to start fresh with Chandler and MJ Fox.Originally Posted by BillBrasky
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Some more casting news (both funny UCB performers) for the Dwight spin-off:
Matt L. Jones (Badger from Breaking Bad!) will play Dwight's cousin.
Thomas Middleditch (some might remember him as the star of Splinterheads, also appeared in The Campaign recently) will play Dwight's brother.
So was Zach Woods written off the show? He has yet to appear this season and isn't listed in the credits anymore. They never really gave him anything much to do anyway, I'm sure he'll find a better gig soon.
I hate to say this, but I really like this season. I assume it has a lot to do with the last few being dreadful, but there's something interesting going on. I find Dwight sympathetic at times and acting more like a normal human, I really liked the pie math, and Toby and halloween Toby (and resulting flower fury) was incredibly silly. Anyone else picking up on a touch of final season magic? Also, Andy Bernard is a fucking monster.
This season has definitely been a huge improvement over the last 2. It is giving us actual plots to care about and is much less cartoonish. It's nowhere near the highs it reached in seasons 2 and 3, but I actually enjoy the 22 minutes it takes up every week now.
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I am appalled at Oscar's behavior. You don't make out with your coworker's husband. I don't see the humor in that storyline at all; it just makes me sad for Angela.
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I agree, this season has been overall better. Getting rid of James Spader's terrible character helped a lot. I still don't like Nelly Bertram that much, but she hasn't been featured as much this season so she's not really that much of an annoyance. I like Ellie Kemper a lot so the fact that they are centering scenes around her a lot more this season is nice. I kind of almost wish they had added Clark Duke's character a few seasons earlier since he is funny and it's too bad he's being introduced now when the show's almost over. Mostly though the show is centering more around jokes and silliness now instead of trying to force "arcs" into the show the way they did the last few seasons which was boring and pointless. Now that they're almost going to be off the air they seem to just be trying to get back to doing simple funny plots like in the first few seasons.
Rainn Wilson has tweeted that NBC has decided to pass on the proposed spin-off "The Farm".
Smartest move NBC has made as of late, imo.
On the one hand, I think Paul Lieberstein was the showrunner during most of "The Office"'s recent post-Carell crappy period, so this show probably wouldn't have been that great, but on the other hand, I saw this Thomas Middleditch guy in "Fun Size" and he was pretty funny, and that "Badger" guy from Breaking Bad has comedic talent too. So this show had some stuff going for it; I hope they at least show the backdoor pilot that was made as a regular episode of The Office.
As I said in the other thread, let's wait until we see NBC DOES pick up for next season before we begin describing this as a great decision.
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Just caught up. The Halloween ep was one of the funniest this year. The main thing that has been annoying me about this season is how cruel Andy's being to Nellie. It's over the top and makes him look like a huge dick when they are simultaneously making Nellie an all-around more sympathetic character. (It's like they've got one foot in last season, when she was a buffoonish cartoon villain, and the other in this new idea of a lonely woman who just wants to adopt a child.) I think they're trying to replicate the Michael-Toby dynamic, but it's just off because Nellie isn't a creep and Andy isn't being shown as kind or decent in other instances. Nellie's kind of a fifth wheel anyway, esp w the two new guys -- which is too bad, because I like Catherine Tate.
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