Why The Office is especially resonant during the pandemic

The New Yorker

"When you watch The Office now, if you peer past the shtick, the subtler details—moments so strikingly mundane that they might have seemed invisible a year ago—stand out," says Sarah Larson. "We might not have realized how going to the office lent our daily lives a sense of occasion, for example, but, seeing Stanley and Jim putting on their coats and scarves and trudging out the door, we do. There’s a wistful frisson in remembering that feeling: that we hadn’t accomplished everything we’d hoped to, but that we’d come back tomorrow, encounter the gang, and try, gamely, to give it another go."