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https://xcancel.com/FoxNews/status/2066191563340788039#m
Rainn Wilson says "The Office" probably wouldn’t be made today, telling Fox News Digital that media trends have shifted left and that cancel culture makes it difficult for edgy comedies to thrive.
Nothing about The Office was all that edgy. It wouldn’t get canceled today. It’s just that no one would watch it because the moment demands a different kind of show.
Trends are often portrayed as completely arbitrary, but they aren’t. Not really. A trend catches on if it expresses something that needs expressing in the current time and place. And of course, new technology can precipitate trends, on one hand by making the technique accessible, and on the other hand by catching the attention of the public in general.
The Office came at a time when YouTube popularized amateur handheld video recording of mundane life. It democratized video production, opening a portal that had previously been guarded by polished TV crews and expensive studio sets. The Office aired its pilot in 2005, but IIRC it wasn’t til a few years later, with the advent of smartphones, that it really took off. There was a concurrent proliferation of similar concepts in movies like Cloverfield that used a “discovered footage” POV. In the eras before, I don’t think shitty, shaky footage would have enthralled audiences. It was only relevant once it connected to the common experience.
Also, who the fuck has a mostly do nothing, comfortable but make-work office job anymore?
You might as well set it in a video rental store or on a fucking pirate ship.
They did. Blockbuster was set in the last Blockbuster store in 2022, ran for one season and was cancelled. Randall Park, Melissa Fumero, JB Smoove.
That's awesome, let's do that. Can the pirate ship also frequently dock at an island which hosts a colourful selection of long forgotten whimsical stores, people, flora, fauna and weather?
Our Flag Means Death was fun
...maybe a temple, too?
Yeah if anything, The Office wouldn’t work these days because we’re burned out on the last ~15 years of sitcoms using practically nothing but the “documentary” style.
can't make the office a second time in a world where the office exists, basically
I don't know, they keep trying to make Harry Potter happen again
They literally made a sequel show that aired last year and people thought it was meh.
blair witch was the progenitor of those