TV-Reviewed

“The Promotion” is the first episode where we get to see how Jim and Michael will deal with each other now that they’re both running things at Dunder-Mifflin. With two bosses I wondered if things would change around the office.

Fortunately for the most part nothing has changed, and the opening showed us that as Jim continued to play tricks on Dwight which involved Jim having to put in a complaint about him from Dwight.  One of the things that changed is that now Jim is getting more responsibilities and he finally gets to see what it’s like from Michael Scott’s shoes. The dilemma in this episode was that due to the economy that there would have to be either no raises or raises for only certain people in the office.  Jim’s idea is to give it to the sales department, which seemed biased since Pam is on the sales department.

The whole getting a raise issue upset a lot of the office employees and Dwight used it to try to rally everyone against Jim.  It was hilarious watching him slowly plant seeds against Jim and it actually seemed like it was working because the whole staff was pretty mad at Jim throughout the episode.  It was fun to see Jim taking heat for once. Him has always been the nicest guy, so it was different but fun to see Jim’s decisions judged and to feel what it’s like for Michael to have the whole office mad at him. One of the funnier moments had Jim and Michael deciding who should get raises by putting beans on the most useful employee and the staff sees this and Pam starts getting mad that there are no beans on her face.

This was a funny episode and I thought the end with Jim and Michael bonding was a cool moment. Jim was able to appreciate Michael and see what he goes through and Michael actually likes the idea of having someone to share the burden with. I thought that maybe this was a bad idea having two managers in the office, because part of what makes people tolerate Michael is the fact that he’s the boss and with that loss of power I thought maybe things would change and so far they haven’t everything is still the same.

I’m looking forward to seeing how the next office dilemma will be settled with two managers, Jim already is cutting down on their unnecessary meeting, and I wonder what else will change.

Rating: 7.7