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Welcome to How to Spend $20, BOP’s look at the latest Blu-ray discs and DVDs to hit stores nationwide. This week: The Office keeps on truckin’, Kate Hudson opens a door she probably shouldn’t have and MacGruber leaps to the big screen.

Pick of the Week

For people who would most certainly take their entire enclave of co-workers to their wedding ceremony and reception: The Office: Season 6

Oh, boy. Season Six of The Office was not a delight.

I’m thinking about what to write about here, and I’m racking my brain for something clever, or witty… or interesting. Truth is, the sixth season just didn’t do it for me. There seemed to be no direction on where to take the series post-Jim and Pam wedding. (Which, by the way, was episode four of a lengthy 26-episode season). I mean really, anybody out there got any ideas?

Season six marked the first time when I didn’t care when I watched The Office. Some, like “The Delivery,” “St. Patrick’s Day” and “New Leads,” – that ep with what I heard was a pretty awful garbage dump fight between Michael and Dwight – I didn’t even bother to watch. And this is coming from probably the most devoted of viewers prior to the current season.

On the topic of Jim and Pam weddings, though, I will say that “Niagara” was one of the show’s best to date. It very well could have been the series finale. Jim and Pam get married, of course. But as well during the hour-long, each character had some funny material to chew on, culminating with Stanley and Kevin and Kelly and Ryan, and Erin and Meredith and Creed and Oscar dancin’ down the aisle.

Angela walked gingerly, Phyllis bounced around sexily with her husband, Bob, and Dwight mistakenly kicked a woman in the face. It was awesome. And, it makes me wonder how else the show plans to give equal attention to its characters when the actual series finale comes ‘round.

Season seven, Steve Carell’s last as Michael Scott, starts September 23rd.

Disc includes: Blooper reel, deleted scenes, Welcome to Sabre Company Video featurette





For people who can’t help but open doors that go bump in the night: The Skeleton Key [Blu-ray]

I think The Skeleton Key is one of the most underrated horror movies to come around in the last five or so years. It’s been some time since I’ve seen it, yet I remember loving the thing. The flick stars Kate Hudson, who plays a nurse who accepts a job as caretaker of a New Orleans plantation home, and in so doing is thrust into a mind game involving the house she cares for, its past and present inhabitants and the supposed magic and supernatural that went on there.

The skeleton key comes into play because within the house is a door that Kate Hudson’s character is told to never open. A Skeleton Key will do the trick, but not without serious consequence to the person who does what they shouldn’t be doing with the door.

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