‘The Office’ Series Finale: Cast Reflects On Nine-Year Run, Retrospective Hour Airs Before Series Finale
"The Office" will conclude its nine-season run Thursday night with a 75-minute series finale beginning at 9 p.m. A one-hour retrospective will air at 8 p.m.
Here is the official episode description from NBC:
"THE OFFICE SAYS GOODBYE IN ITS ONE HOUR SERIES FINALE - GUEST STARRING MINDY KALING, BJ NOVAK, RACHAEL HARRIS, DAKOTA JOHNSON, JOAN CUSACK, ED BEGLEY JR., MALCOLM BARRETT, MATT JONES, ANDY BUCKLEY, MIKE SCHUR, BOBBY RAY SHAFER - Months after the airing of the documentary, the workers of Dunder Mifflin, past and present, gather for a wedding and a final round of interviews. Mysteries are solved, hatchets are buried, pranks are prunked. Also starring Rainn Wilson, John Krasinski, Jenna Fischer, Ed Helms, Catherine Tate, Leslie David Baker, Brian Baumgartner, Kate Flannery, Angela Kinsey, Oscar Nuñez, Phyllis Smith, Paul Lieberstein, Creed Bratton, Craig Robinson, Ellie Kemper, Clark Duke, and Jake Lacy."
The cast has already started to reflect on the show's nine seasons in various outlets. Kate Flannery, who played Meredith Palmer, posted an article on The Huffington Post.
John Krasinski, who portrayed Jim Halpert, told PARADE that "the show gave (him) everything."
"I was a waiter before I got it, and it's given me every opportunity," Krasinski told PARADE. "I wouldn't have met my wife (Emily Blunt) if it wasn't for the show because I wouldn't be in L.A. being an actor. There's so much that this show has given me that it will forever be the defining thing in my career no matter what, and I'm really proud of that."
NBC also posted several videos on its website that feature the cast's looking back on the show's run in a series called "The Office Farewells."