Michael Scott is leaving
The Office. Or so Steve Carrell is rumbling.
The Boston Globe hopes it's only a negotiating tactic, but I don't. I was never an enormous fan of the show's particular brand of intensely awkward humor, but it could be funny and sweet. The thing is, though, as originally conceived, the story of
The Office is Jim and Pam getting together. That story is over. It's resolved. It's time for the show to make the exit it should have made when they got married, or even before then, when that exit could have been graceful. Steve Carrell doesn't need the show. And the show doesn't need to exist.