I breezed through this sweet office romcom and liked its simple promise: a numbers first high achiever lands in a messy satellite team and remembers why people matter. Erin Melrose walks into Garrison Board Games ready to tighten budgets and instead finds potlucks, in jokes, and a wall of photos that looks like a family fridge. The tone stays light, the prose is clear, and the board game idea ties it all together with a gentle reset theme.
What works best is the warmth. The Annex crew win you over, the running gags give sitcom pace, and Travis as boyfriend stays supportive in the background so Erin’s growth can lead. On the flip side, the office villains are broad, a few maths jokes repeat, and the middle lingers on similar culture clash beats. Still, it lands on kindness and purpose without preaching, and it is fully clean: no violence, no heat, just feel good office stakes that resolve on theme.
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