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Spoiler alert: this article contains spoilers for all six
seasons of Superstore.
The workplace sitcom is more popular than ever. During the coronavirus lockdowns of 2020, US audiences streamed 57 billion minutes of the American version of The Office. Having only watched its UK counterpart, I used my newfound downtime to stream those nine seasons, too, along with the seven seasons of Parks and Recreation, set in the local government offices of a fictional Indiana town, and the most recent seasons of cop comedy Brooklyn Nine-Nine.
In a time where many of us have been siloed at home, cut off from the trivial and often annoying interactions of the workplace, there was a strange comfort in watching a comedically heightened version of these spaces and the characters that populate them. Here is work without the labour, these shows seem to say. It is a space that, while often boring, ultimately enriches our lives through social interaction â�
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