📖 BOOK REVIEW⠀📚 Welcome to Dunder Mifflin
AUTHOR: Brian Baumgartner @bbbaumgartner
Publisher: Custom House
Stars: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ + 🐰
Published: October 19, 2021
The Review 📚 Welcome to Dunder Mifflin
✨ The Title/Cover Draw:
- As a long time watcher of The Office, and a listener of Office Ladies and Brian Baumgartner’s podcasts, I absolutely had to pick up this book.
💜 What I liked:
- This book was everything I ever wanted from a book about The Office. It was funny, but there were times it made me cry. This show is groundbreaking and sets the path of a new type of show. Also explored is why it has gained a new audience in the 2020s, including teens! Told through interviews of so many of the cast and crew, you will fall in love with these characters again.
😱 What I didn’t like:
- While the first 4 seasons were very in depth, I felt like they zoomed past the last 5 seasons.
🚦 My face at the end: 😹
💭 5 Reasons to Read:
- 1. If you love The Office …
- 2. If you love Steve Carell …
- 3. If you wanna know how the sausage gets made …
- 4. If you want to experience the full range of emotions …
- 5. Family
🕧 Mini-Summary:
- Think you know what happened behind the scenes of The Office? Think again.
All thoughts and opinions are my own.
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📘 Summary 📚 Welcome to Dunder Mifflin
The official oral history book of The Office, featuring exclusive interviews with every major player and never-before-seen photos, pulling back the curtain on the absurdity and genius that went in to creating this unstoppable force in American popular culture and why it continues to resonate with audiences today.
If you’ve turned on a television or logged on to Netflix at any time in the past fifteen years, chances are you’ve watched an episode of The Office. You can probably also rattle off your favorite episode, Dwight quote, Jim prank, and cringeworthy Michael Scott moment. And you may even have been one of the over 5 million viewers who tuned in (and cried) when the finale aired, only to see the show get new life as a streaming staple, becoming the #1 most-streamed show on Netflix and winning over a whole new generation of viewers.
Now for the first time, viewers are invited to get an exclusive look behind the scenes of Dunder Mifflin, in this all-new official oral history from the producers and cast. Based off hundreds of hours of exclusive interviews with key actors, writers, producers, executives, and even some Office super fans (like Billie Eilish), and illustrated with never-before-seen photos and stills from the show, Welcome to Dunder Mifflin is a must-have for anyone who’s ever found themselves re-watching the show for a third time because they just can’t get enough.
So grab your Dundies and a pot of Kevin’s chili, and call a meeting of the Party Planning Committee to celebrate this one-of-a-kind look behind the scenes of one of television’s most beloved and enduring comedies, from the people who were there from the very beginning.