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Countering Culture: Arming Yourself to Confront Non-Biblical Worldviews [VHS]
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Mandala
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Money - Pt 1 & 2
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Warning! There are some spoilers in this review.

In the spring of 2007 it was reported that NBC had asked the producers of THE OFFICE to expand it permanently to a one-hour format. Initially I thought this was a terrible idea, that the show would be irreparably weakened by expanding it to an hour. Then I saw the Season Three DVDs with the deleted scenes and with so many really great deleted scenes, I though that perhaps it would be possible to expand it to an hour. Now, however, I'm not so sure. Especially after this last of the four one-hour episodes that start off Season Four. As a half hour show, THE OFFICE almost always leaves you wanting more. But as a one-hour show, it always seems to go on too long. Like most of the four episodes starting off this season, this one just felt like it was over before it was over.

I'm not saying that it would never be a good idea to have an hour-long episode. The show has had some very good expanded episodes in the past. But four in a row seems to have stretched the show further than it really wanted to go. I'm actually looking forward to it going back to shorter episodes next week.

This episode revolves largely around two major stories. First, Michael's increasing money woes created by having Jan live with him without working any herself. To help make a bit more money he takes a second fulltime job as a telemarketer. The scenes showing him at his second job are the weakest in the episode and really do feel like padding to make the show go a full hour. The other major story centers around Pam and Jim deciding to visit Dwight's bed and breakfast. After three years of teaming together to play tricks on Dwight -- and indeed this visit starts off as a trick on Dwight -- they realize how deeply he is hurting because of his break up with Angela (caused by his killing her elderly but deeply beloved cat by putting him in her freezer) and make a couple of gestures to try and make him feel better. For instance, they give his utterly dreadful B&B a stellar review on the Internet. I like the symmetry of Pam and Jim not being together for a long period of time during much of which Dwight and Angela had a hidden relationship. And now that Jim and Pam are together, Angela and Dwight have broken up.

I have no doubt that the show will get back on track, but to do so, the network needs to permanently commit to the show being only a half hour each week.

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