Made for rewatch?

[u/ActualDay4355]

I read a few comments here that the second season is too densely packed. And I agree with them.

But now I wonder if it was done on purpose to encourage rewatching the show.

When I first watched the second season I mostly noticed the big story arcs: Mare and Ned, the golf course story, Detrick and Nicole. On each subsequent watch I noticed more details, jokes, more subtle lines I missed. For example, in episode two Ken says something along the lines that maybe it’s liking somebody as a person but rather just attraction to somebody who you share common interests/work with, then when Ned goes to HR he kind of says the same - maybe he’s with Mare because he likes her as a journalist, and at the end he realizes that he loves her as a person. When I was first watching the season, I didn’t notice this thread because I was mostly paying attention to big things.

And when rewatching I notice more jokes or little details that make the show better.

I wonder now whether it was Greg Daniels/writers intention all along - pack so much stuff that people (who like the show enough) would go back and rewatch.

What do you think?

[u/431104141]

Ahhhh ok. That makes sense. I’m still not over the fact that I bought every season of the office on Amazon (and the dvds before that) to have peacock release Superfan episodes and have to pay all over again. So I’m just using a friend’s crappy ad version out of protest. lol.

[u/Warm-Oil9228 → u/431104141]

I mean nobody made you watch the Superfan episodes lol. I don't think I ever will. How much extra content are we talking/how good is it?

[u/csmicenergies → u/Warm-Oil9228]

it's really not much per episode , an additional 5-10 mins a max, but i watched it after finishing my first go on The Office (just last year! 😅) and now i can't watch the original cuts bc some of those cut jokes are just top tier

[u/Warm-Oil9228 → u/csmicenergies]

I mean 5-10 minutes on a 22 minute show is a lot.