The Office (TV Series) The Job (2007) User Reviews

when life works out

[rahenson1 · 10/10 · 15 November 2010]

Oh there's spoilers for sure here. If you haven't seen the episode this will ruin it. Dwight as boss. Andy as #2. Hmm it could happen again couldn't it? Jan melts down. Schrutebucks. Ryan somehow leapfrogging the corporate ladder. Lots going on in this episode (as season finales often deliver).

If there was ever an episode to convince a person that love exists this is the one. 50 episodes in (more or less) with all Jim and Pam have been through (admittedly self-inflicted mostly) we have our payoff. That's what makes this such a perfect story. Who of us hasn't done the wrong thing at the wrong time to make life miserable on ourself? Pam said she couldn't when she should have said she could. Jim waited until right before her wedding to get the courage to say what he should have said how many times before? He moved away. She got back with Roy. It was never going to work out.

And then it did. "Don't forget us when you're famous" with a tin yogurt lid and paper clips. Not going to be one of Hallmark's best sellers. But for one guy and one girl it was perfect. Perfect enough for him to leave an interview for a promotion he was sure to get. Perfect enough to give up a good relationship. Perfect enough to drive two hours just for the chance. Perfect enough to risk a friendship the likes of which neither of them would see again. "You've got to take a chance on something" he told her. It's for the one time it works that we endure the 99 times it doesn't.

The Job (#3.23)

[ComedyFan2010 · 10/10 · 3 January 2019]

Jim, Karen and Michael go to NYC for an interview to get a job which ends up being Jan's. Michael leaves the office to Dwight.

Excellent ending for the season. Everything that happened at the corporate office was great. Andy Buckley is great as David Wallace, he has this very friendly boss thing but not in a crazy way like Michael. The conflict with Jan was really good.

Dwight as manager was as one would imagine, hilarious. Pam being a secret assistance manager, him working with Andy all were great parts of the episode.

And the ending is a great cliffhanger for the next season. We get to enjoy that Jim and Pam will be together. He chooses her over everything else and goes back to the office asking her out. Now we want to know how they will be together. And of course Ryan getting the corporate job is something that one waits to see in season 4.

I'm crying

[juampslag · 9/10 · 29 June 2021]

Few actors have made me cry with a single face just as Jenna Fischer did to me right now.

I'm still crying.

Season 3: Another strong season for the engaging and funny sitcom

[bob the moo · 1 May 2009]

I read a comment in the paper a few days ago that disputed someone's claim that 30 Rock was the best sitcom out there at the moment because the writer of this piece of blurb felt it was the US version of The Office. I didn't think too much about it because it is all opinion but I can see the point. In my opinion 30 Rock is by far the better comedy because it gets the biggest laughs out of me, but The Office is the better sitcom. The reason for this disparity is because The Office has a better narrative running through the jokes and has characters that the viewer cares about beyond their role as comedy material. This was seen in season 2 of The Office (the first good season) but the way they ended that season perhaps made me think that things would be awkward or difficult to carry on from – particularly in a show which I already know is on its 5th season.

I needn't have worried though because S3 does a very good job of moving on from the conclusion of the previous season and keeping the character threads going. We join quite some time after the end of the last season, with characters scattered a bit, new characters added, new unspoken complications but yet also the continuation of the same awkward relationships that I enjoyed from season 2. This continues till about the mid-point of the season where the dynamics are changed again, while also still keeping the same essential plots. It is to the writers' credit that it works as well as it does because the character-driven plots are evenly spread across the season and each episode; OK they have moments where they come to the fore but they never feel like they are sitting on a shelf waiting for the show to need a cliff-hanger or something like that.

Of course neither the characters nor their threads are strong enough to work if this were a drama series, but thankfully it is not and instead these factors compliment what is otherwise a consistently funny comedy show. The bad memory of season 1 is long gone now as The Office US has settled totally into what it is doing rather than what the UK did – almost to the point where comparison is like comparing apples and potatoes simply because they are both in the same colour box (although of course this is the internet so these arguments will continue forever). I found S3 to be funnier again than S2. The improved narrative threads prevented each episode feeling like a totally contained sketch while the dialogue and observational stuff continues to be frequently funny. I did also like the fact that S3 allowed for more moments where we get to see that the people in the office are not useless even if they are odd characters. The sales call episode is the clearest example of this but there are lots of little moments that offer similar. It is also surprisingly touching at times – again part of the reason that it works best as a sitcom rather than a "judge me by the laughs" comedy.

Yet again the cast deliver on this well and seem a lot happier doing what they are doing now as opposed to the jobs they were given in season 1. Carell is very good at his role and fits it very well. Fischer continues to be the best at the "pained" comedy as she always had been and this skill serves her very well within the comedy and also within her narrative thread. Krasinski is still a bit too much about the mugging for my taste but the lack of complexity or openness in his performance adds realism to a point. He works well with Jones, who is the best of the new additions and helps drive a lot of the character plot. Wilson continues to deliver great lines and a consistently good comedy character. The supporting cast continue to do the good work they did in S2 despite Baker's Stanley looking ever more like a cartoon version of himself. I continue to love Kaling and Bratton but everyone else is good again, with more use of everyone in terms of narrative and comedy (where perhaps S2 used the supporting cast just for comedy asides).

Season Three

[zkonedog · 9/10 · 5 July 2019]

To be brutally honest, the second season of this show (the one preceding this one) will most likely be viewed as the funniest of the bunch, as the show was still incredibly fresh and the writers still had a large bank of ideas from which to draw on. Season Three, while still incredibly funny, didn't have quite the extra "oomph" that the second season had (what with the incredible Jim & Pam romance). That being said, after finishing this third installment of the show, I actually have gained even more respect for the writers and actors, as they didn't fall into the "same old, same old" trap of many comedies and instead kept right on developing the characters we have come to know and love.

The biggest change, of course, is the separation of Jim and Pam. As the third season opens, Jim has taken a position at the Stanford branch of Dunder-Mifflin (away from "beloved" Scranton) to try and escape the awkwardness of the Pam/Roy relationship (which begins to experience trouble of its own). This move, while losing the playfulness of the interactions of those two characters (which I consider to be the backbone of the entire show), actually serves to give the show more credibility, as you will be pulling even more for the couple to be re-united (whether or not that actually happens is for you to find out!).

Another curveball from the previous season is the development of characters from the Stanford branch. While season two essentially takes place almost exclusively inside the Scranton office, this season spends a considerable amount of time following Jim as he meets and interacts with his new co-workers. Again, this may not be what you want to see in the short-term, but it eventually serves to give the show an even stronger base of characters in Andy Bernard and Karen Fillipelli (a potential love-interest for Jim).

However, besides the "loss" of Jim and Pam for the time being, the rest of the show still rolls along with laugh after laugh. Michael Scott shines brighter than ever, Dwight is still hilarious, and the supporting cast does a remarkable job of keeping themselves relevant to the ongoing storylines.

Thus, although this season is a bit weaker than the two previous ones due to the factors described above, I have to give the writers/creators credit for not falling into the trap of repetition and allowing the show to grow stale. Instead, they stretch things in a whole new capacity and, by the end of the season, end up a better show for it going forward.

Your advice was good, but Jan's was bigger.

[joeymcpee · 10/10 · 28 July 2022]

Sometimes one scene makes an episode. Such is the case when Michael returns to his office to end any discussion of he and Jan getting back together again. And then he sees she's taken her jacket off. Resolve meet window!

9

[Edvis-1997 · 9/10 · 2 November 2021]

One of the best episode of this season. We all knew how this is going to end but still, it had some unexpected plot twists which I really like. It just didn't make a lot of sense who got that job lol.

Season 3 Review

[IPyaarCinema · 9/10 · 17 September 2021]

Review By Kamal K

It's a really good season. There is nothing bad in this season except the fact that Jim and Pam are so distant from each other that it is painful to watch them not even being friends. Overall, it was still the same hilarious show that makes you smile and laugh all the way through each episodes.

Spoiler

[Narcissist00 · 7/10 · 26 August 2020]

Andy is the worst actor in this, I hope this is his last episode.

Weak!

[fabrisrocha · 5/10 · 18 May 2021]

A weak season finale for the weakest season so far. It seems like the series loses its funny each episode. I hope it gets better on the next seasons. The only one I really enoyed was the first one. They forget to do comedy to focus on these drama/love stories, not to mention some characters that aren't funny at all, like Dwight. It's really being a disapointment to me, because I think The Office had a lot of potential in the begining, but it wasn't well developed unfortunately.

Finished s3

[thorodinson-50130 · 24 September 2021]

After so long time finished s3. I am enjoying it. Its dark humor and dark comedy is so good. I don't when i will complete this but i really enjoy it.

Competition For The Corporate Job

[vivianla · 21 November 2020]

Karen thinks Pam badly now after the beach day.

Jim comes in with a new haircut looking hot.

Jim and Karen if they can take the rest of the day off so they can go to New York. Michael asks if it is so they can do it meaning sex.

Jan comes in with a low top. Pam, Jim and Karen notice the plastic surgery. Jim says they got bigger.

Michael gets back with Jan because of her new breasts. He puts his hands on the side of them.

Jim and Karen explore the city. Jim only went for field trips and Karen is very familiar with the city. They go to restaurants, bars.

The camera shows the office building which looks very NYC.

The job is actually Jan's. She is being let go.

In the end Ryan got the job as he has an MBA and he tells Kelly they are done.