There was hope that James Spader could help invigorate things…but he didn’t. I mean, remember “Pool Party”? Remember how weird things got? There was hope that the trip to Florida some of the workers took could help invigorate things…but it didn’t. The first season after Steve Carrell’s exit was very rocky, and as sad as it was, you could just tell the writers were trying so hard. Many say The Office should have just ended after Michael Scott left, and they point to this season as justification. It’s now time to rank all nine seasons of the show from worst to best.
With just over a year since the series finale of The Office aired, time has allowed the entire series (201 episodes in all…can you believe it?) to sink in. Still, not everything was extraordinary about the ordinary, and some seasons and story lines were much better than others.
Its mockumentary style gave the audience the sense that they were following these ordinary people’s ordinary lives, yet the setting of the Dunder Mifflin Paper Company’s Scranton branch created an atmosphere that everything these characters did really did matter in the grand scheme of things. series of the same name, The Office ran on NBC for nine seasons from 2005 to 2013. version of The Office ended, but I have to agree with Pam’s above quote from the series finale. There’s a lot of beauty in ordinary things. “I think an ordinary paper company like Dunder-Mifflin was a great subject for a documentary.