S8E7
Pam’s Replacement
⚠ Spoiler alert This recap gives away what happens in this episode.
Episode Summary & Review
Summary
Pam worries that Jim thinks the temp filling in for her during her maternity leave is attractive.
Our Take
A middling episode carried almost entirely by Jim and Dwight’s odd-couple chemistry, which is genuinely funny even when the premise around it is thin. The Pam jealousy storyline feels like retread of ground the show covered better years ago. Catherine Tate’s temp gets some good moments but the writers clearly aren’t sure what to do with her yet. Watchable, just not memorable.