May

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‘The Office’: There’s a Secret Meaning Behind How the Talking Heads Were Shot

Tons of people have seen The Office many, many, many times, but there’s a pretty major Easter egg that you might have missed. One of the things that made The Office so groundbreaking when it first aired was that it ditched the traditional multicamera format of a comedy TV series in favor of a single-camera, and a documentary-like one at that. This began with the original UK The Office, of course, but American viewers were used to sitcoms looking a certain way. The Office changed the game with its mockumentary format, in which the characters looked directly …