The Office Returns!! - Dinner Party - Rating and Discussion
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Below Average. There is something to be said for having it be TOO uncomfortable.
It was below average, considering the greatness that was "The Deposition." I hope all the post-strike episodes won't be like this. The Michael-Jan dysfunctionality was a bit too over-the-top. We only saw the other office workers for about three seconds, and Dwight and Andy (despite being at the dinner party) didn't really get any funny lines. Yeah, it's funny seeing Pam react to Jan's passive aggressiveness, but Jan herself isn't really that funny of a character.
It was actually the more subtle stuff that I found funny. Jan flirting with Jim, Jim and Pam calling each other "babe" after the dinner party, Andy actually being sweet with Angela only to be constantly rejected, etc.
It was actually the more subtle stuff that I found funny. Jan flirting with Jim, Jim and Pam calling each other "babe" after the dinner party, Andy actually being sweet with Angela only to be constantly rejected, etc.
but yours doesn't have a poll, so it's not quite the same (besides you labelling it a commentary and not a grading thread).
Exactly.
This was an interesting return, but I enjoyed it greatly. Jim's failure at escape, Michael's obviously pent up frustration with Jan, Pam and Jim's moment in the car after the party ("Babe", "babe")... all good moments.
And did anyone else notice Angela staring into Jan's clevage at one point?
Speaking of Angela, I couldn't help but feel sorry for Andy. He was still his usual hammy self, but nonetheless was being very genuine with Angela and all she did was bite back, seemingly harder than usual.
Did anyone get a preview for next week? Here it went right from the end to Scrubs.
My favorite part was Jim being willing to ditch Pam just to get out of there. That's one bad dinner party.
I was really liking it until the last 5 minutes when the weather guy cut in to let me know that 2+hours away a tornadic system was approaching. Not Tornado warnings, not a Tornado spotted on the ground...just fu*&ing high winds that might possibly become tornadic. If there was a tornado on the ground in that area I'd understand but there wasn't.
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Loved it. I actually felt a palpable sense of relief when Dwight showed up. That's a bad dinner party.
QFT.Joe, quick
I get similar at my in-laws, when the brother in law and sister in law make it, but it happens every holiday AND once a week.
Someone will bring up defecation during the meal, and the one who pays nothing in taxes will start an argument about taxes with the one who pays a lot.
Plus politics. I actually heard the following sentence spoken not long ago: "I'm voting for Hillary because I'm a feminist and because she'll get in there and step down and let Bill do everything."
I wish Dwight would show up. It'd raise the mentality level.
Joe, purgatoried
I loved when the cops suggested Michael go home with one of his friends and Dwight grabbed him, then lead him off.
I finally watched this one and thought it was great. Apparently they have decided that losing her job and living with Michael has made Jan borderline mental. I agree that it was great that Dwight showing up was actually welcome, and that even with his bizarre date and food choices, he seemed more normal than Michael and Jan.
Jim's play to abandon Pam to get out and her subsequent torpedoing of the plan was the high point of the episode for me. Played just right, you could see them desperately turning over their options in their heads and reacting to each other's counter-moves.
I took it that she was really his old babysitter (plus... whatever... *shudder*), he just wouldn't give her a ride home.
--Justin
Jim's play to abandon Pam to get out and her subsequent torpedoing of the plan was the high point of the episode for me. Played just right, you could see them desperately turning over their options in their heads and reacting to each other's counter-moves.
I took it that she was really his old babysitter (plus... whatever... *shudder*), he just wouldn't give her a ride home.
--Justin
Did anyone catch the cops reaction when they saw Jan? Before then, they seemed kind of cautious, wanting to see what was going on, but as soon as Jan came out, they got firm with Michael making sure he had a place to stay that night.
I got the impression the cops knew Jan.
I got the impression the cops knew Jan.
