Dunder Mifflin is an Entertainment 720-style disaster.

Nobody ever has to hand-wave nonsensical plot developments on Breaking Bad or Mad Men, or even Parks and Rec with "It's just a TV show."

First of all, the fact that Jim did not want to spend his life in Scranton working at Dunder Mifflin is a big part of the premise of his character, starting from Season 1.  This cannot be news to Pam.

The character was brought in, and served a particular function of driving a wedge between Erin and Andy, and then he faded into the background.  He is, like Cathy last year, a device that sets up a plot event rather than a functioning character.

I guess they had promos last week and reviews this week, and the Senator was responding to the revelations from the documentary. I assumed it had started airing.

You're right. I was thinking of Eliot Spitzer. He's the one who stood up and gave the press conference with his wife.

Sorry I've missed the last couple of episodes of OFFICE.  I have been writing a book on a tight deadline and traveling recently, so I haven't been able to watch this live:

A lot of people see Amy as a hero, but am I alone in noticing that she's a complete crazypants narcissist, and also that she's really stupid? It really seems that the show goes to great pains to demonstrate that she's an unbalanced and fairly bad person, even as Laura Dern portrays the character as completely lacking…

I love that the "Modern Family" idea of a poor person is a guy who has been a tenured university professor for 30 years.

I love that the "Modern Family" idea of a poor person is a guy who has been a tenured university professor for 30 years.

How great would it be if the mother on "How I Met Your Mother" was Jessica Walter, and Archer's dad on "Archer" turned out to be Bob Sagat?

I can't tell if the sets this season look really bad, or if every reaction I have to the show now is tainted by Harmon's firing.

I think the last season should be a summation or a climax to whatever the show is about.  I don't think "The Office" is a show about the making of a documentary, so I hate this.

Community through Season 3 has been a show that poured from the mind of Dan Harmon.  This was an auteurist, creator-driven work, more than anything on network TV.  Community is as as inextricable from Harmon as The West Wing was from Aaron Sorkin, or Mad Men is from Matthew Weiner.

The best Andy is ancillary-character Andy, who is the goofy, slightly-sweaty a cappella guy in a goofy sweater, who knows that his very presence in Scranton is a sign of his failure, and who harbors within himself a roiling volcano of rage.

1. Andy's villain casting is really annoying, in part because this narrative really isn't rooted in any direction for the character other than the writers' being mad at him for insisting on skipping two months of episodes this year.

The documentary crew was not a mystery. It was a device. While, there has been explicit acknowledgements that the film crew exists, unlike "Modern Family" and "Parks and Rec," it's still the same thing; a structure and a format. It's way too late to make the documentary part of the plot, and to make the filmmakers…

How many layers of management does a documentary crew have? The director probably fired him.

How many layers of management does a documentary crew have? The director probably fired him.

The conceit really should have been discarded.  Nobody needs a "resolution" on the documentary, and there's no way for it to make sense.  "Modern Family" and "Parks and Rec" use the handheld cameras and the "confessional" asides as well, and there's no conceit there that there are offscreen characters filming things…