"Attempting to spinoff a new show from a long-running, much-rewatched, and still-beloved series like The Office would come with a lot of baggage in any context. But The Paper, the new series from Office co-creator Greg Daniels and comedy veteran Michael Koman, arrives freighted with the baggage of an entire sitcom movement. The Office stands as one of the most influential shows of the past 20 years,"
"If it was difficult to watch any of those shows without thinking of The Office, at least at first, The Paper makes that task intentionally impossible. It literally features Oscar from The Office in a new job, fussing over another documentary crew showing up at his workplace to follow the (maybe) revitalization of the Toledo Truth Teller, a local Ohio newspaper that's fallen into clickbait-era, post-print disrepair."
The Paper is a newsroom-set comedy from Greg Daniels and Michael Koman built on The Office's mockumentary lineage and wider post-millennial workplace sitcom influence. The series directly reintroduces Oscar in a new job and stages a documentary crew following the Toledo Truth Teller's tentative revival amid clickbait-era decline. Oscar remains a supporting player while new characters inherit tonal echoes of former Office figures and sitcom archetypes. The show includes cameos and offscreen touches from other Office characters and has already secured a second season. Mapping legacy characters onto fresh roles can reveal sitcom evolution and creative refinement.
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