An American Workplace

The Office did a great job of circling back in the end and reminding us that the whole reason that they were being filmed, by showing the PBS commercial and having the cast in front of an audience et al, was for a workplace documentary. - XMASTIME

How trippy is it that after all these years, the characters in The Office are about to watch (I'm a few weeks behind) the documentary that was made about them for almost a decade? Would you like to look back at your life being filmed like that, or not? Would it be great or terrible? Weren't there years of The Office during which you didn't even remember they were making a documentary? Of...a paper company?

And has anyone else wondered if Clark (one of my alltime favorite characters, even just off one year) is the son of Phyllis? - XMASTIME

What we know so far:

1) We love Ken Burns documentaries

2) We love The Office

3) Over the last two years every person ever born on Earth has binged The Office at least three times

4) Peter Jackson's brilliant Get Back has shown that if the subject is amazing enough people are perfectly happy to sit and watch greatness for hours and hours  (Don't miss out on Xmastime's live-blogging of each! Here's one! Here's two! Here's three! You're fucking welcome!)

Is there some reason the Peacock channel can't back a fucking Brinks money truck up to Ken Burns and have him crank out the very 9-hour long documentary they were filming The Office for? Wouldn't that be the cultural moment of the century? If there truly IS anything that would bring this country together, wouldn't it be a real "The Office as a documentary" played out over three nights?

CAMON, people!