Satire is tricky business. How effective is the skewering of bad behavior if the characters perpetuating it are never held accountable for their actions? Is it on the creator to ensure that the subject of one’s satire is punished? In the wake of numerous recent reports detailing systemic workplace harassment, a new piece in GQ has reexamined NBC’s reboot of The Office and discovered that, well, maybe Michael Scott isn’t quite the doofy, lovable lug we remember.
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