Wonderful Finale for a great series. I cried. A lot. A LOT.
The perfect ending. :)
What can you say about the farewell of a show that has meant so much to so many people?It is the kind of event that you can only judge to some extent because at a certain point the "love letter to the fans" that Craig Daniels wrote draws you in emotionally and you end up loving it. I guess I deserve to give this show the best tribute I can. Let me start here, I am a big fan, and all my life I have been bullied and never had very many friends. The last few years have been especially tough for me and I have struggled with very intense things that have led to some very serious actions, to say the least. I have grown up with these characters as part of my life and throughout my life they have served as friends when I had no other ones. The last few years these characters have been there for me and seeing them grow has helped me grow. A show that means so much to me had to finish perfectly or it all would be ruined. I sat down already teary eyed knowing that they would be gone from my life in an hour. The episode delivered great laughs, but it delivered a lot more. The episode delivered very intimate moments that were much needed. Plot lines that begun throughout the show came to a good conclusion and old stars returned with perfect timing. It was a sweet, beautiful, amazing, perfect love letter from the amazing cast to all of it's fans. I must admit that I was in tears seeing how much the characters had grown since we first visited this little town of Scranton Pennsylvania. The story line of the friendship between Dwight and Jim is particularly heart- warming. Every character ended up just where they should have and the final shot was perfection. "Sometimes goodbyes are a *****" but this perfect love letter softened the blow. The show will be missed, but it did end perfectly.
This episode received three Primetime Emmy Award nominations for the 65th Primetime Emmy Awards. Greg Daniels was nominated for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series and Ben Patrick, John W. Cook, and Rob Carr were nominated for Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Comedy or Drama Series (Half-Hour) and Animation. David Rogers and Claire Scanlon won for Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Comedy Series, marking the fifth win for The Office at the Emmys overall and the series' first win since 2009.Rogers and Scanlon also won an ACE Eddie award for Best Edited Half-Hour Series for Television.
Wasn't a big fan of this start to the season in the first two episodes. They seem to want to push as much Beth down your throat as possible and I'm honestly just sick and tired of her character. Not growth, no arc, she's the exact same person she was 5 seasons ago with some added backstory to try and make her feel more sympathetic. Kelly Reilly's acting is some of the best you'll see, but I'm sick and tired of Beth. And I'm especially sick and tired of her dogging on Jamie in the same exact way season after season after season. The show seems to want to keep showing you Beth treating Jamie like dirt, and it's just way too old and repetitive at this point. I still think they should turn Jamie into a full on villain, they've set him up to be a perfect villain but they're not taking that step. I think if he started outwardly fighting the Duttons and actually getting some major victories, especially against Beth, it would add so much to the show. Really anything different and new would make the show better, but they mostly just keep on making the same show season after season. The added politics were fresh and new and very welcome, I actually found this to be the most enjoyable part of these first two episodes simply because it's not just the same old thing. But everything else has gotten too stagnant and overdone. The show also desperately needed more Kayce in these first two episodes. He's the easiest character to root for and without his presence I found myself having a not knowing where to aim my support and therefore not really caring about anything. It also feels like they're bringing in a new character who's whole thing is just going to be being Beth 2.0 so... yay. So there are pieces to enjoy (the politics), but overall disappointed in this premiere. There's a lot of show left this season so I want to be hopeful but I just didn't care for this start.