Pam and Jim’s struggling marriage is a storyline that I can
get behind. It’s a well-acted, well-written story about two of the series best
characters who have long been at the heart of the story. When the show does a
story like this it pushes back the veneer of absurd antics and goes
spine-tingingly deep.
By contrast, I have no clue what the hell is going on with
Dwight. Seriously. There were multiple moments where it begs all plausibility.
Why is this happening? Why is no one preventing this? It was flippantly
bizarre. Dwight gives Stanley bull tranquilizer and carries him out of the
building for a paper sale. If it were just filler, well, that would be
problematic as is, but it’s just so utterly weird and the show seems to accept
it at face value.
Andy’s subplot is equally unnecessary if much more logical.
But it’s just not very funny (I at least laughed at a number of moments in
Dwight’s story in spite of myself) and repeating story we've already seen from this character.
It was a messy episode that privileged stories that the
episode could have done without while giving mere slivers of the material this
show is still nailing.
While it’s an episode not without its moments (i.e. Kevin
brags about keeping Oscar’s secret, the security guard could care less about
Dwight absconding with Stanley, and almost everything with Jim and Pam), it’s
an episode that’s far too hit or miss.
Grade: C+
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