The Office sucked after Michael Scott left. That is all.

themindiswatching: The US version of Office sucked after Michael Scott left. That is all.

FTFY

/Never watched the original
//Dislike Steve Carrell and overly earnest absurdist comedy.

Next up; the reboot of My Mother The Car

/Bob's mother returns from the dead, incarnated as a 2010 Toyota Prius. Smugness and hilarity ensue

1) This is a terrible, terrible idea.

2) The only Office "spin-off" I'm aware of, if you can even call it that, is the best network show on TV the last few years.

PunchDrunkPanda: People will watch it. And really, the only purpose of TV shows is to fill airtime between advertisements, so Mission Accomplished.

/bring back Stringer

He's on BBC as a cop this go-round.

This is normally where we rant about good shows being cancelled (Community) for more of the same crap filling up the time-slots. I mean come on, Office, Parks & Rec (pretty good too), and now Schrute Inc.?

I'd honestly prefer Community be canceled this year rather than stay on years past its welcome and put out spinoff drivel like Britta's adventures as a psychologist or Shirley's Christian Crusades with a bastard son and the Cosby kid.

/sixseasonsandamovie

themindiswatching: The Office sucked after Michael Scott left. That is all.



I think the Office now is more watchable than it's been the past few season, if only because it's not as out-right obnoxious. It's certainly past it's prime, but I'm a little shocked people think it's worse off now than it was from season 5-onward.

also, a spin-off centered around Dwight would be terrible.

Mad_Radhu: Dwight is one of those characters that is best in small doses, so this just seems destined to fail miserably. Even The Ron Swanson and the Tammies Show would wear thin after a few weeks.

Perhaps they could dilute him by making it a crossover with Joey.

Mad_Radhu: Dwight is one of those characters that is best in small doses, so this just seems destined to fail miserably. Even The Ron Swanson and the Tammies Show would wear thin after a few weeks.

Exactly. You can't take a pretty unlikeable character like him and do a spin-off and expect it to work. Not unless they somehow find a way to make him a lot more sympathetic, which would pretty drastically change who the character is.

Andy was a marginally tolerable supporting character, but I've grown to hate him as the focus of the show. I still DVR The Office, but I've bailed out of an increasing number of episodes; garden party, doomsday, Gettysburg, etc.

limboslam: DjangoStonereaver: themindiswatching: The US version of Office sucked after Michael Scott left. That is all.

FTFY

/Never watched the original
//Dislike Steve Carrell and overly earnest absurdist comedy.

You never saw the BBC original, yet made a point in letting everyone know that the US version sucked? Sorry to disappoint, but if you're an American and you're shiatting on your own country, you're not going to win the hearts of Europeans or intellectual elites. They'll still hate you.

I might be wrong, but I believe he was merely trying to clarify his criticism. By establishing he never watched the original, of which he made no remarks, he was limiting his analysis only to the American version and criticizing it along American TV standards.

Then again I might be wrong and he could have been trying to be a hipster, but that's not the way it read to me.

EyeballKid: Just make Biatch Hunter already, NBC.



Yes!

Teenwolf: FeedTheCollapse: themindiswatching: The Office sucked after Michael Scott left. That is all.



I think the Office now is more watchable than it's been the past few season, if only because it's not as out-right obnoxious. It's certainly past it's prime, but I'm a little shocked people think it's worse off now than it was from season 5-onward.

This. James Spader is actually great on the show. Mostly because he's his own quirky character without trying to replicate Steve Carrel's quirks. It may be past its prime, but it's still a funny show.

I think James Spader is the only thing really giving the show any kind of direction, but I still think the show's more enjoyable than it was with Michael for the previous 2 or 3 seasons. The Holly/Michael thing really made me want to throw my remote at the TV.

limboslam: DjangoStonereaver: themindiswatching: The US version of Office sucked after Michael Scott left. That is all.

FTFY

/Never watched the original
//Dislike Steve Carrell and overly earnest absurdist comedy.

You never saw the BBC original, yet made a point in letting everyone know that the US version sucked? Sorry to disappoint, but if you're an American and you're shiatting on your own country, you're not going to win the hearts of Europeans or intellectual elites. They'll still hate you.

I watched the US version enough to know that I didn't like it.

I expressed no opinion on the original.

From your kneejerk nationalistic jingoism, I think you need a refreshing beverage:

DecemberNitro: Guh what an awful show. My old job had an obsessed Office fan whose desk was littered with The Office calendar, The Office daily joke reel, Dwight posters, a survey poster-thing about Which Office Character Are You?, horrible.

You don't mention that coworker's gender, but I'm guessing he or she identified as a Jim or a Pam.

/"I'm so funny/cute! That is so my life!"
//Is Parks & Rec really a spinoff if Rashida Jones played a different character?

Steve Carrell's 'awkward, socially ignorant' schtick on that show gets old fast for me, but he can be brilliant when he plays it relatively straight (see: Crazy Stupid Love)

Poison: USCLaw2010: Up All Night is decent.

It is. Finally watched it last week. Show has potential-which has to be a rarity for NBC. Which means they'll cancel it.

eh, it should be much better given the cast involved. It's not bad, but it kind of feels like a placeholder for a better show.