A plan that Daniels said had been in the offing since Season 5: Warren Lieberstein, who was a writer on the series, remembers that this idea “wasn’t universally loved” in the writers room but Greg had the final say, so they began enacting this plan. And there was going to be a reunion episode where you see that Jim and Pam have split up by this time, and they will have their reunion in the reunion episode.” “Greg really wanted to do something extremely risky and high-stakes, which was the documentary airs and we see what effect it has had on these characters.
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Writer Brent Forrester reveals that they set out to actually have Jim and Pam break up in the middle of the season, with the idea being that in the series finale’s reunion episode, they would rekindle their relationship: And I said to Greg, ‘It would be really interesting to see how that split will affect two people that you know so well.’” “My whole pitch to Greg was that we’ve done so much with Jim and Pam, and now, after marriage and kids, there was a bit of a lull there, I think, for them about what they wanted to do… For me it was, ‘Can you have this perfect relationship go through a split and keep it the same?’ which of course you can’t. Daniels sat down with all the actors before starting Season 9 to discuss where their characters would go, and Krasinski lobbied to put Jim and Pam’s relationship on shaky ground. The idea was to show the camera crew for the first time in the show’s final season, but an added twist here was that Brian (played by Chris Diamantopoulos) was actually secretly in love with Pam, and their relationship threatened to drive a wedge even further between Jim and Pam.Īnd if you think you hate the Brian storyline now, just wait until you hear about how the show was supposed to actually split Jim and Pam up entirely, only for the two to reconcile during the series finale.Īs recounted in Andy Greene’s new book The Office: The Untold Story of the Greatest Sitcom of the 2000s, the idea of shaking up Jim and Pam’s relationship came from creator Greg Daniels, who resumed his role as showrunner in Season 9 for the first time since Season 5, when he stopped working full-time on The Office to co-create Parks and Recreation with fellow Office writer Michael Schur. Indeed, the Brian storyline was insanely divisive.
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