257: Goodbye, Michael (extended cut)

Take the wax out of your ears and stop eating lotus flowers—this week we’re talking about The Odyssey! Alex and Edwin are joined by friend of the show Peter Gallagher to talk about Christopher Nolan’s newest epic. The conversation starts with how the movie fits in today’s cinemat ...  Show more

This week is a special back-to-back draft episode! First we draft the new and extended cold opens, picking the best and our favorites of the new intro scenes from the Superfan edits. Then we draft post-Office careers, choosing from the cast’s trajectories and projects following t ...  Show more

This week we finish breaking down “Goodbye Michael” and we are joined again with the writer of the episode, Greg Daniels! The ladies and Greg get into what filming the last scenes with Steve Carell were like. Greg shares how he believed the show could survive after Steve’s exit b ...  Show more

In this episode, the boys say goodbye to Gene Hackman, Michelle Tractanberg and David Johannsen and then discuss Severance, Horizon, Demon City and Paradise 

This week we break down the first part of “Goodbye Michael” and we are joined by the writer of this episode, Greg Daniels! The office thinks tomorrow is Michael’s last day, but Michael has decided to secretly leave a day early. Greg shares his joy of writing this episode, includi ...  Show more

Today we’re breaking down Goodbye Toby. To kick off this two part episode, Paul Lieberstein sent in audio clips to talk about what it was like to write himself off the show and introduce Holly Flax, played by Amy Ryan. When Toby has his last day at Dunder Mifflin, Michael insists ...  Show more