![]() Novak returned, too) got back together (even if they did so in the most terrible way possible: by ditching a baby… though would you expect any different from those two?) Andy went from a laughing stock to a hometown hero Darryl enjoyed his continued success Toby enthusiastically got invited to hang out Oscar enjoyed a senatorial campaign (but sadly no showcase of his origami skills) and, in the most touching happy ending of them all, Erin finally got to meet her birth parents (played by Joan Cusack and Ed Begley Jr.).īut, really, even if they didn’t have a big goodbye, all the characters walked away with something: wisdom. Pam finally made a big, romantic gesture to Jim and decided to move their family to Austin so he could pursue his dream Dwight and Angela got married Kelly and Ryan (that’s right, Mindy Kaling and B.J. Michael wasn’t the only one who got a happy ending so richly deserved. Please, please let the Emmys at least give Carell one for a guest appearance. He still can’t dance and he still says things that come out wrong (“I feel like all my kids grew up and married each other… it’s every parent’s dream!”), but his heart is still in the right place. But at the core, he’s still the same old Michael. Well, he did a little, in that he now has gray hair and is blissfully happy with a wife and their kids. And their first exchange in nearly two years went as follows: Yes, the rumors were confirmed and our wishes came true: Steve Carell returned for the finale, and it was just perfect.Īfter Jim was named best man for Dwight’s wedding - or, as the Schrute’s call it, Bestest Mensch - and he went above and beyond the call of duty (aw, remember the episode when Jim was terrible at Call of Duty?) by pulling off the Best… Prank… Ever… and surprising the groom with a new Bestest Mensch: one Michael Gary Scott. But, you can’t have a family unit without it’s papa bear, which in their case is Michael Scott. ![]() But the employees of Dunder Mifflin were - and still are - at their core, a family. ![]() Picking up a year after the airing of the PBS documentary about them, and a day before Dwight and Angela’s wedding, we found our favorite characters at different places in their lives. Everyone had their happy ending, including The Office itself. This is exactly what the conclusion was about: redeeming yourself, making peace with something, remembering the good over the bad, and finding the beauty in imperfections. The past few years of The Office were pretty bad, but the finale erased all of that. But what did work - those heartfelt reunions and goodbyes - are what really stood out and what mattered and what made this 75-minute finale so very special.īut, that’s almost fitting in a way. No, not everything in the episode worked. There are also a few surprises from some of our editors who share some details about their individual features in the magazine, including our exciting cover story.After nine seasons on NBC, the American adaptation of Ricky Gervais’ beloved British series of the same name, The Office was given an absolutely lovely, sincere, and near-perfect send-off. ![]() They share more about putting together this magazine remotely. In this podcast, you will hear from our managing business and audience engagement editors, Sean Young and Saura Haggart-Smith, about how they have worked tirelessly on a new way to launch the magazine.įor the rest of the podcast, we speak with Katrya Bolger, editor-in-chief of the RRJ, Urbi Khan, print managing editor, and Mitchell Consky, print production editor. This week would have been our launch party, but in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, like many of you, we are staying home. We wanted to wrap up our season by chatting with a few members of our masthead. Working as the Review ’s podcast chief editor and producer has allowed us to meet so many talented journalists and explore, in depth, so many issues within the Canadian media industry. As we launch our final episode of season three of Pull Quotes and as we prepare to launch the print issue of the Ryerson Review of Journalism, we would like to say an enormous thank you to all of you.
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