Six Jarring Observations from The Office Rewatch

Six Observations from Rewatching First Two Seasons of “The Office”

The beauty of the Pam-Jim relationship is that Pam doesn’t comes across as more office hot than a bombshell.

Whatever natural attractiveness she has (although admittedly this is subjective) is masked by an unattractive meekness. That Jim is into Pam is more about how he connects specifically with her than being a player who’ll set his eyes on the most attractive girl in the Dunder-Mifflin office.

Jim might have been better cast as someone who’s not as objectively good looking (he was, after all, a member of the handsome men’s club) but at the same time, Jon Krasinski played the part very well. As Krasinski started to accrue more good-looking girlfriends (Amy Adams I can buy, but then Rashida Jones?) the illusion that Jim wasn’t good with the ladies was broken a little.

It’s likely deliberate that we know so little about Roy.

He plays into the stereotypes of blue collar workers and his language is a little blue but it’s not out of the question that he’s a more well-rounded individual if one were to look closer. We know that Roy gets along with Pam’s mom so he can’t be a complete rube.