The Office as a School Series
Spoilers for The Office The Office is the best depiction of school I’ve seen on TV. Source: whatculture.com People have come up with several different explanations as to why The Office became so popular with young people who’ve never worked in an office. I figured it was because The Office was a good show with well-made characters, and anyone could appreciate that. But an idea crept into my mind that the setting and format of this series really resembled a school. And apparently I’m not the only one. Brian Baumgartner, who played Kevin, mentioned that he and writer Michael Schur came to that same conclusion: It’s been a question, why are the kids so into it? Like, why are there twelve year olds coming up to me, and saying all of these lines to me, like why is this happening? And we thought … I think what we truly weren’t thinking about, were the similarities between an unreasonable boss, who makes his employees do unreasonable things, sitting next to people you don’...