I was perfectly content to believe that, as on “Modern Family,” the documentary crew didn’t exist and was just a structural device. I’m not sure how necessary Brian is, both as a romantic foil and token of the "real" documentary crew. Of course, we, the audience, know what happens to nice, normal guys when they spend every day of their working life in close proximity to Pam Beasley - like Jim before him, Brian is smitten. Brian has been filming Pam for years and years and they’ve gotten close. In the next episode he knocked a guy out on her behalf, and promptly got fired. Brian, a handsome boom-mic operator, broke through the fourth wall to comfort Pam. Her breakdown led to the controversial introduction of the long-implied, never-before-seen documentary crew that has been filming at Dunder-Mifflin since the show began. Pam tried to explain her mistake lightly and playfully, but Jim lost his temper anyway and she ended up in tears. Earlier this season, the two had an excruciating phone fight where Jim blew up at Pam for failing to record their daughter’s dance recital, even though he was the one who had to miss it and she screwed up the video for a good reason. Pam is alone and single-parenting and resentful that Jim has upended their whole life without really asking her about it. He thinks he’s making sacrifices for his family Pam thinks no one asked him to make those sacrifices. He’s amped and focused on work, and inconsiderate about Pam’s experience of his absence. They skipped the step where they discussed what each wanted for their lives together.īased on this lack of communication and the pair’s assumption - like ours - that nothing could really mess up their relationship, Jim’s time in Philadelphia has been difficult.
Out of exuberance and maybe a little anxiety that Pam would hold him back, Jim never explained how much having a more meaningful career meant to him anxious about holding Jim back, and hurt he didn’t ask her in the first place, Pam has never pushed him to do so. Since finding out, Pam has tried to be supportive, but she’s always felt, and always has been, slightly excluded from Jim's decision-making. When Jim initially interviewed for his new job, he didn’t tell his wife. Pam worked out her own “I want to leave Scranton and have a bigger life” issues a few seasons ago when she went to Pratt, and she really is content with Jim and their two kids and Dunder-Mifflin. That Jim is going after a better, more creatively satisfying career is a cause for celebration, but he’s handled it poorly with Pam from the start. This season, Jim finally realized that he can do more, that he wants to do more, and he did what he should have done a long time ago: He got a new job.
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An essay in the Awl a few years ago described “The Office” as the "most depressing show on television" because of Jim, a man audiences think of as the funny, competent, prank-playing, romantic hero of the show, but who is actually “a mediocre man who has already realized his full potential,” content to wile away his life at a dysfunctional paper company. One of the long-running, undercover sadnesses of ‘The Office” was the status of Jim Halpert, a likable guy who could do so much more, but didn’t want to. "The Office” isn’t the comedy it once was, but it has become the drama it has never been. The long arc of this, its final season, has been the slow but sure destabilization of its sweetest and surest thing, the loving relationship between Jim and Pam Halpert.
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But with the series finale looming in May, “The Office” is finally getting its groove back - and not by being funny. It’s been a long time since “The Office” was good: The post–Michael Scott years, even the late–Michael Scott years, have been rough, and when they haven’t been rough, they have been listless.
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