"And yet, watching the spinoff of The Office, set in Toledo, Ohio, at a formerly great local paper that now primarily runs wire stories and clickbait like " The Bachelor Contestant Opens Up About Chin Mole," it feels like the show itself is an outdated relic from another era. When The Office and Parks were originally on the air, NBC dominated the ratings game with the Thursday-night block of comedies it dubbed "Must-See TV."
"NBC seems to think, for now at least, that the answer to that is Peacock, where the entire 10-episode first season debuted on Thursday. ( The Paper has already been renewed for a second season, probably thanks in part to Daniels's long history with the network.) The connection to The Office is loose at best; the same documentary crew that spent a decade filming our favorite paper company shows up in Scranton looking to follow up with their subjects,"
The Paper follows a formerly great Toledo newspaper reduced to wire stories and clickbait, operating in a town where newsprint is repurposed for mundane tasks. The series applies Greg Daniels's comic interest in slightly run-down towns and resigned characters working dead-end jobs. The show's mockumentary style ties loosely to The Office via the same documentary crew, while Peacock released all ten first-season episodes and NBC has renewed the series for a second season. The series confronts print-media decline and questions how a network-style single-camera mockumentary fits into the streaming-saturated 2025 television environment.
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