The Office: Every Season Ranked Worst To Best

After its extremely rocky start to life The Office did the unthinkable, reinventing itself entirely from the ground up and providing itself with a new lease on life.

This second season totally pivots into something as serialised as it was refreshing. The opener, "The Dundies" established an event within their world that would be revisited multiple times and referenced occasionally. The "Booze Cruise" episode showed just how the relationship building between these characters would organically blossom.

After Jim opens up to Michael (of all people) about his secretive feelings for Pam the expectations are blown wide open and they only become more discombobulated with the seminal closer. The perfect season finale finally imbues some substance to its style, with Jimmy Halpert's passionate actions proving to be as delectable as they are engrossing.

Season 2 is a well-rounded, professionally crafted season of sitcom television that doesn't jump through hoops (or over sharks for that matter), but instead begins building the foundations of everything to come.

Outside of the aforementioned highlights, the personnel at Dunder Mifflin show that they're alive for the first time, as many of them lacked so much as a singular line of dialogue in the first season, leaving the audience to imagine that they'd play no role, minor or major. As they give each one time to grow, they also show exactly what their characters are about and just how they'll fit into the fray from now on.