"…it’s really only saved by the real-life personalities that Fielder
encounters, particularly the young pizza-delivery guy with whom he
bonds."

Seconded, thirded, fourthed. McNutt, as much as you do move the goalposts, I'll concede that you have some consistent criteria by which you review this show. But your criteria are so deeply different from those by which most people watch the show that your reviews are simply useless. You clearly have extremely…

"If surprise equals comedy, then the unseen corpse of Mrs. Beverly is the
perfect capper to the gang’s incrementally ruined holiday feast."

The most strident point in the review is about the fact that nobody mentioned Scrantonicity.

Myles McNutt: holding sitcoms to standards he pulled out of his ass and then bashing them for failing to meet them

Paragraph 4: "Eschewing subtlety, writer-director B.J. Novak has built an episode…"
Paragraph 6: "There’s a subtlety to all of this that I enjoyed…"

Another typical McNutt interview, more interested in showing off his own cliche grad school analytical skills than writing a review that actually enhances the viewer's experience.