The Workplace’s millions-strong fandom has a lot to rejoice this 12 months, with Greg Daniels’ upcoming newspaper-set spinoff hitting the 2025 TV schedule in September. (An occasion momentous sufficient for Chili’s to resurrect its Scranton location.) Given the setting adjustments, viewers probably received’t get main updates on acquainted characters, however former star Ellie Kemper herself shared her present ideas about Dunder-Mifflin’s on-again, off-again coupling of Erin and Andy, and I’m firmly inclined to facet along with her on this one.
Kemper shared some candid ideas previously about not being an enormous fan of Erin and Andy as a pair, and when requested to hypothesize about their present standing in an interview with Folks, the actress initially voiced an olive department for Ed Helms’ kooky character earlier than largely backtracking in favor of Erin’s happiness. Right here’s how she put it:
I do not know that they are the proper pair, however they might make it work. Look, in my tone, you’ll be able to inform that I sound skeptical of their success as a pair, so perhaps I do not. I really feel like Erin is on — to not say that Andy was a nasty decide — however she’s on to higher and brighter.
For the briefest of seconds, any and all Erin/Andy shippers have been in greedy distance of a victory that remained elusive as The Workplace closed out with its ninth season. And I suppose if anybody’s electrical energy lower out in the midst of studying that quote, that particular person may very nicely go ahead in life with the concept Kemper thinks Erin and Andy would discover a technique to completely patch issues up.
However such just isn’t the case, and I’m not precisely mad about it. Regardless of Erin and Andy simply being two of the most effective characters from The Workplace, judged as separate entities, I wasn’t ever actually an enormous fan of their romantic entanglements, largely as a result of Andy’s relationship conduct in some way being extra cartoonish than Jim’s and Dwight’s put collectively. Positive, he typically had others’ finest pursuits in thoughts, however he form of sucked at showcasing them.
In the meantime, Erin typically represented youthful innocence, and I wish to think about that she ended up along with her most ultimate important different after the present wrapped, maybe somebody who watched the in-universe documentary and fell head over heels for her.
So far as Erin’s present whereabouts, Ellie Kemper surmised that Erin in all probability put Dunder-Mifflin in her rear-view mirror, and is hopefully having fun with the lifetime of an worker who has moved up within the ranks. As she put it:
I believe she’s a tough employee, however I additionally assume she has values, or steadiness. That is what she values, steadiness. So I really feel like she in all probability has moved on to a extra senior place. I am unsure whether or not it is at a paper firm or in a unique subject, however I additionally assume she has a household and mates and balances all of it. That is my want for her.
How superior would it not be, although, if the brand new Workplace spinoff The Paper does truly function a cameo or two from the U.S. mothership? (Not that I’d balk at seeing Ricky Gervais’ David Brent or another person from the OG UK comedy popping up.) I don’t know that updating followers on Erin and Andy’s standing can be the principle concern, however it undoubtedly can be if Ed Helms is the one making the cameo.
Followers can revisit any relationship foible they need all through The Workplace’s 9 seasons with a Peacock subscription whereas awaiting a precise premiere date for The Paper on NBC.