Well here we are again. The most sought after series since Star Wars has returned for its second installment. Catch up with part 1 here.
We left off last time with Jim and Pam getting engaged and starting to focus on their marriage. Now, don't get me wrong, I think Jim and Pam were great during parts of their relationship. They conveyed true love. However, getting to their eventual relationship and letting their marriage to start falling apart is what is unforgivable.
The later seasons of The Office bring a lot of change. Michael leaves with Holly, Dunder Mifflin is bought out by Sabre, a printing company, and employees come and go.
Jim's college buddies decide to try to start a sports marketing company called Athlead. He is offered a partner position, but doesn't know if he can balance both the sports company, based in Philadelphia, and his job in Scranton.
All of this is harmless, until Jim puts a substantial bit of money ($10K) behind the company without first telling Pam. He neglected to tell his WIFE that he was spending a gigantic sum of money for a family that gets their earnings from a paper company that went bankrupt and had to be bought out by a printer company.
This snowballs into a sort of behind-the-scenes look when Pam finally agrees to let Jim go to Philadelphia and follow his dreams. Pam, being the amazing wife and person she is, tells Jim to go to Philly to get Athlead up and running. Jim is going to miss CiCi's first dance recital. Pam doesn't know how to use her iPhone, but promises to record it for him. She ends up failing and, when Jim asks for it, they end up fighting and hanging up without a resolution.
Normal married couple argument, right? It could have been, but cameraman Brian comes to her aid. He breaks company filming protocol and kneels beside her and grabs her hand. Viewers were fuming. It was a mixture of mad-at-Jim-for-getting-mad-when-he's-doing-something-for-his-own-benefit and mad-at-Pam-for-not-stopping-him-from-comforting-her.
Brian and Pam continue to get closer. Pam tries to "get back at" a warehouse worker for destroying her mural painting. When the worker finds out, he charges Pam and Brian steps in to fight him. The worst part about this is that PAM DOESN'T TELL JIM.
Pam goes to thank Brian at his house...alone...and doesn't know a camera followed her to the house. They have a conversation where things get too close for comfort, but luckily Pam leaves before anything happens, but the fact that she went there without a camera crew shows that something else could have happened and that she didn't know for sure if something would or not.
Jim finds out and although it's an argument, it's minor, and they take Brian and his wife to dinner. Brian's wife never shows and it turns out that she left him, making all his previous actions even more shady.
Pam goes to surprise Jim in Philly and brings him dinner. They end up arguing about work and money and how Pam is running the family by herself. Jim's childish actions towards the family that he so craved before with Pam was incredibly immature.
With all of this being said, Jim and Pam had good moments. The tea cup that he got her for Christmas, the letter and DVD he gave her in the final season, the look into the camera he gave at Niagra Falls, and a few others. However, putting them at the top of your relationship goals is irresponsible given their extensive background of flaws.
