The Office: Season 9, Episode 17 “The Farm” (F)
Somehow, I missed this episode when it originally aired a week ago, mainly because NBC’s Thursday night schedule has been so spotty lately to account for more than four shows in four timeslots and, inexplicably, extra episodes of “1600 Penn.” Perhaps it would have been better if I hadn’t seen it at all. What’s worse is that this was supposed to be a backdoor pilot for the proposed spin-off about Dwight’s life on the farm that NBC wisely passed on. It’s about what I might have imagined, an awful attempt to make what has worked as an occasional joke about Dwight living on a farm into a central plotline, which is not a good idea. Even the interview segments on the farm feel forced, because, out of the office setting, there’s no legitimate reason to ask each of Dwight’s relatives to share absurd details of Schrute family customs with the camera. And we really didn’t need to see Dwight teach his excessively mature nephew how to milk a cow. To make matters worse, the other half of this episode had to include Todd Packer, one of this show’s worst characters, and bring him back to trick the entire office into thinking he was atoning for the way he treated people while he gave them cupcakes laced with drugs instead of frosting. This show has almost completely lost a sense of what’s funny, showing brief snippets of Andy and Kevin’s night at the office presuming that its events were hilarious. Let’s hope that this show goes out on a better note than this.
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