Rashida Jones, your day has come
The Office is one of the most inventive shows on TV right now, but it's not perfect. Look at the blunders: they booted (maybe temporarily) HR goofball Holly Flax, turned Jan Levinson into a breastfeeding Godzilla, booted Toby only to bring him back and then turned Angela into the office whore, and Angela is bizarre but not a whore. Unforgivable, though, is what they did to Rashida Jones who played Karen Filippelli, who was Jim's girlfriend throughout Season 3.
After a more than 20 episodes of Karen's delightful presence, Jim goes to New York City for a job interview, realizes he loves Pam and then leaves poor Karen "standing by some fountain." The writers had set up a cute little storyline with Jim and Karen, and Karen wasn't just the "other girl" to receptionist Pam Beesly but an important force in the Scranton branch, where she pulled her weight and added some much-needed sexiness to the stuffiness of Dunder Mifflin. They brought her back for several episodes, including a recent one in which she's pregnant, but it's not the same as having her on the series as a regular.
Maybe Rashida will get the last laugh, though. With Jim selling Blackberry's and Pam being all cute and Pammy, Rashida's co-starring in the new romantic comedy — or maybe, bromantic comedy — I Love You, Man, where she's set to marry Paul Rudd, who doesn't have any friends eligible for the best man duties. The movie, which also stars terminal penis flapper Jason Segel, opens next week, and next month her new show, Parks and Recreation from the makers of The Office, debuts on NBC. Before all this, the only she'd been seen in after Jim dumped her was the Web shorts "Puppies" and then "Kittens," where her and the contagiously cute Natalie Portman solved the economic crisis with furry little animals.
I go through phases when it comes to celebrity crushes. I've gone through the Natalie Portman phase several times. I just ended a Zooey Deschanel phase when I heard she's engaged to some douchebag singer who thinks he's Bob Dylan. Rashida Jones ... your phase starts now. Her characters are hilarious, her timing is perfect, her look is classy ... oh and she's freakin' hot. Movie and television poducers: More Rashida, please.
The Office is one of the most inventive shows on TV right now, but it's not perfect. Look at the blunders: they booted (maybe temporarily) HR goofball Holly Flax, turned Jan Levinson into a breastfeeding Godzilla, booted Toby only to bring him back and then turned Angela into the office whore, and Angela is bizarre but not a whore. Unforgivable, though, is what they did to Rashida Jones who played Karen Filippelli, who was Jim's girlfriend throughout Season 3.
After a more than 20 episodes of Karen's delightful presence, Jim goes to New York City for a job interview, realizes he loves Pam and then leaves poor Karen "standing by some fountain." The writers had set up a cute little storyline with Jim and Karen, and Karen wasn't just the "other girl" to receptionist Pam Beesly but an important force in the Scranton branch, where she pulled her weight and added some much-needed sexiness to the stuffiness of Dunder Mifflin. They brought her back for several episodes, including a recent one in which she's pregnant, but it's not the same as having her on the series as a regular.
Maybe Rashida will get the last laugh, though. With Jim selling Blackberry's and Pam being all cute and Pammy, Rashida's co-starring in the new romantic comedy — or maybe, bromantic comedy — I Love You, Man, where she's set to marry Paul Rudd, who doesn't have any friends eligible for the best man duties. The movie, which also stars terminal penis flapper Jason Segel, opens next week, and next month her new show, Parks and Recreation from the makers of The Office, debuts on NBC. Before all this, the only she'd been seen in after Jim dumped her was the Web shorts "Puppies" and then "Kittens," where her and the contagiously cute Natalie Portman solved the economic crisis with furry little animals.
I go through phases when it comes to celebrity crushes. I've gone through the Natalie Portman phase several times. I just ended a Zooey Deschanel phase when I heard she's engaged to some douchebag singer who thinks he's Bob Dylan. Rashida Jones ... your phase starts now. Her characters are hilarious, her timing is perfect, her look is classy ... oh and she's freakin' hot. Movie and television poducers: More Rashida, please.
