The Office Is Almost Over

I watched The Office last night for the first time in probably a year and a half, because the series finale is next week and I watched it for so many years that I knew I'd want to see how it ends. ...All right, the truth is that I saw on the digital guide that last night's episode was an hour long and assumed it was the series finale. Whatever: I watched it.

Based on tweets I've read, I gather that Jim (John Krasinski) and Pam (Jenna Fischer) have spent the season physically separated, and almost broke up for real, but now he's given up the job that took him away and recommitted to Dunder Mifflin, and to Pam. But of course she doubts, as anyone would, that he's truly made the choice he'd prefer, and thinks she may have bullied him into acting against his true desires. So he hands her a supercut that is, I guess, supposed to rekindle that old Jam magic for the viewer.

There was a time when I couldn't get enough of Jim and Pam's wedding video and seriously, every time I watched it, it made me cry. Maybe if I hadn't stopped watching The Office, the supercut in the latest episode would have had the same effect on me -- but I was actually more moved by the story twist for another couple from...back when I still watched it.

It's not a perfect situation: Dwight (Rainn Wilson) is dating another woman, to whom he'd been planning to propose earlier on this very day; Angela (Angela Kinsey) has screwed over Dwight on several occasions, never more egregiously than when she lied to his face about his having fathered her son. But I'm okay with the two of them together. It's important for jerks to marry each other so that they don't compromise the rest of the dating pool, and these two definitely deserve each other. Pot, you finally have your lid.