re: By far the worst thing about The Office

I loved this series during the years Michael Scott was on the show.

The obvious worst things about the show have already been mentioned:

The Office episodes AND full Seasons without Michael Scott were pure crap.

In that aftermath, weak comic book characters were created, absurd plot-lines and relationships were forced, and a major unmentioned disappointment. Eventually, the entire show lost focus and why people liked The Office -- the relatability, fundamental goodness and quirks of its characters.

For whatever reason or agenda, character flaws, subversiveness and creepiness began seeping into basically every character and plot-lines. Almost every character was befallen by a breakdown of basic morals & ethics. (One of the initial strengths of the show had been its the quaint naivete and middle America values.) By the end of its run, nearly EVERY character suffered and became unlikable AND annoying. Let's be honest -- the last two years compared to the Michael Scott Years were Day vs Night.

Devolution:

-- Pam & Jim both became bipolar out of nowhere. Their marriage and relationship was totally and unnecessarily corrupted by the show's producers

-- Angela was a turrible person and hypocrite cast as Hollywood's default corrupted "Christian" to begin with. That ensured her morals & ethics would be horribly fake -- and that worsened. She cheated on Andy with Dwight. Pretty much coerces him to be impregnated.

-- Oscar has an affair with Angela's gay politician hubby. (with whom "good guy" Oscar has an apologetic flaming affair)

-- Michael had an affair with the married woman.

-- Dwight was a benign lovable psychopath who developed into a full-on insane psycho

-- Andy was seemingly possessed by 100 different personalities

-- Nell was a most unlikable, unnecessary character to begin with, developing into the worst of the annoying and show-killer.

-- Robert California could have had potential. Until the writers got lazy and made him one more character with multiple (strange & unlikable) personality traits.

What started as a likable version of a "Misfit Island" Office became 'Lord of the Flies' overnight when The Office split into two versions. That was another ridiculous, meandering plotline. (so was the dumb Dwight beet-farm spin-off show intention possibility)

Older characters became unrecognizable. Newer characters became nuisance filler for what became The anti-Office show that more resemble any of the actual Reality Show on at the time.

So in short, completely unlike Seinfeld -- which went out on a high note -- The Office this show unabashedly ran straight off a cliff. My The Office critique has turned into a, "What an unwatchable, unredeemable trainwreck 'The Office' became." The last episode was lipstick on a pig.

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