Tonight's episode of "The Office" was an intriguing one. It was a solid episode and was a fairly amusing, but it didn't knock it out of the park. Tonight, Holly was faced with the unenviable task of going over business ethics with the office workers. Unfortunately for her, this is the staff at Dunder-Mifflin Scranton, and so it couldn't be just as easy as reading from a binder.
Michael, in a misguided and fairly selfish attempt to make her presentation more interesting, ended up putting her between a rock and a hard place as it was revealed that Meredith had been sleeping with a client for several years to get office discounts. We then got treated to an awkward lunch with Michael and Holly passive aggressively arguing over whether or not Meredith should get fired and Michael described, it horrifying detail, a chastity belt. Michael then childishly pouted until he saw that Holly was actually hurting and finally let in. This was actually the best part of the episode. Holly showed her human side and Michael responded with his, which made for a very nice moment at the end. For me, this was what made the episode, as it usually does when "The Office" gets real for a second.
In other plots, Jim and Pam are engaged, but evidently we'll get to that later. Jim hilariously was timing Dwight to see how much personal time he spent during the day. The funniest part, by far, was Jim's description of "Battlestar" to Andy and Dwight's restrained reaction. Also, Ryan is still a jerk, even though he got knocked down a couple pegs. Other than that, there really wasn't much else going on outside of Michael and Holly.
Solid episode tonight. Not a stellar one, but a good one.
B+
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