The Office has a sequel, for some reason

0:00 "The Office" premiered in 2005 to mixed

0:03 reviews from an underwhelming number of viewers.

0:05 Shrinking in the shadow of its acclaimed British counterpart,

0:09 the show narrowly avoided cancellation after just six episodes.

0:13 About 15 years later,

0:15 it would go on to become arguably the most popular sitcom of all time.

0:20 The legacy left Behind by "The Office" is truly inescapable.

0:24 You'll find GIF's and references from the show

0:27 in just about every corner of the internet,

0:30 and that's just for the general public.

0:32 For the actors that were in this show, forget about it.

0:36 These people are going to get called

0:37 by their characters names for the rest of their lives.

0:40 Imagine going on a podcast to talk about a TV show you

0:43 were on 20 years ago and all of the top comments are like,

0:46 "Man, it's so weird to hear Kevin talking normal." Why is he doing that?

0:51 Make him stop.

0:53 I wanna kill Kevin Malone.

0:54 I guess the thing that happens when you cast as wide of a net

0:57 as "The Office" has managed to, is that you're gonna pick up

1:00 a lot of different kinds of people and I think nowhere has

1:03 that been more apparent than in the reactions to the new "Office" sequel series,

1:08 "The Paper." I want you to think

1:11 of any opinion that someone could have about anything,

1:15 and I promise you there is someone out

1:18 there who has that opinion about this show.

1:21 There are people who think it's too much like the original.

1:23 There are people who think it's not similar enough.

1:25 I've seen people call it a lazy cash grab and other

1:28 people say it's the best show they've seen in years.

1:31 Some people are already asking for fan

1:34 fiction and other people are complaining about DEI.

1:37 Surprise, surprise, another show with women in it.

1:41 Yeah, I'm out.

1:42 Wake me up when they make something that's just a bunch of dudes,

1:46 young hot dudes with their shirts off.

1:48 This person is mad that their husband doesn't

1:51 kiss them like the guy on the show.

1:53 This person asked and then answered their own question and all they

1:57 had to do was look at the video they were responding to.

1:59 And this person called Peacock, poopcock.

2:02 And that's just not nice at all.

2:03 But the most prevalent opinion I've seen

2:05 about this show almost everywhere it gets mentioned,

2:08 is that it will never be as good

2:10 as the original and that Hollywood has no new ideas.

2:13 Now, while I agree that this show probably won't be as good as "The Office" was,

2:18 and I am also fairly tired of sequels and spinoffs in lieu of fresh new ideas,

2:23 the show you are talking about literally was a reboot.

2:28 The pilot episode of the American "Office" was a near

2:32 word for word recreation of a show that already existed.

2:36 Yeah, reboots can be kind of annoying,

2:38 but this is not the time to make that argument.

2:40 Also, I think we're revising history a little bit here.

2:44 Season one of "The Office" was not that good.

2:47 Season one of "Parks and Rec" was even worse.

2:49 It took a while for those shows to figure out how

2:51 to best utilize all the characters and even just find the overall tone.

2:56 In the case of "Parks and Rec," that show really

2:57 didn't hit its stride until season three when they hired Adam

3:00 Scott and Rob Lowe to replace this guy whose name

3:03 I could not tell you if my life depended on it.

3:06 I guess what bothers me about this is that a lot

3:07 of the people who complain that nothing new gets made anymore,

3:11 also won't give new things a chance,

3:14 because they're not immediately better than the thing they already like.

3:18 I think an important distinction to make about "The Paper,"

3:21 is it's not trying to be "The Office 2".

3:24 Yes, it's made by one of the original creators.

3:27 It's written and directed in the same style.

3:30 It takes place just a few towns over from Scranton and there

3:33 is one single character from that show that is also in this one,

3:36 but it's not a continuation of the same story or any of its characters.

3:40 It's very much trying to be its own

3:43 thing and I think does so pretty successfully,

3:46 when they're not slamming you over the head with references to the old show.

3:50 It's giving me PTSD from a old boss.

3:53 I know who he's talking about.

3:56 Maybe too easy for you, Stanley.

3:57 I know who he is talking about.

3:59 Nobody wants this.

4:00 Every time one of these would happen, I would get unreasonably upset.

4:04 Obviously I get why they do these and I

4:06 do seem to be in the minority with this opinion, but it just feels so pandery.

4:11 I also think when you lean too much into these references,

4:13 you're shooting yourself in the foot,

4:15 because the more these shows are connected, the more it invites comparison.

4:19 And if people are constantly comparing the two shows,

4:22 there's gonna be a clear winner.

4:24 And that's kind of the double-edged sword of a show like the paper.

4:27 A lot of people are only going to watch it because it is tangentially connected

4:31 to "The Office," but then they're also going

4:33 to spend the majority of its runtime comparing the two.

4:37 And honestly it's kind of impossible not to.

4:39 Throughout the pilot, every time a character would come on screen,

4:42 I would be like, okay, so that's the new Jim,

4:45 that's the new Pam, and then that's sort of like Angela,

4:48 and she's like Italian Michael, and that's the new Stanley?

4:53 [Speaker] Did anybody hear that?

4:54 Oh, sorry.

4:54 My prejudice is showing, that's Black Creed.

4:57 Mostly because I was so curious to see what this show was gonna be,

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6:15 Something about the, oh yeah,

6:17 so there were parts of "The Paper" that I legitimately laughed out loud

6:21 at, followed by lines that would make me want to set my TV on fire.

6:25 The pilot specifically is kind of a mess.

6:28 Structurally, it's just all over the place.

6:30 So we open on the old "Office" building and we hear from Bob

6:33 Vance and we like that, because we remember him from the other show.

6:36 And then we cut over to a different part

6:38 of the building and we hear this person talk about Dunder Mifflin,

6:41 which we remember from the other show.

6:42 And then we cut to the new office, which for a minute I thought was in London,

6:46 because this guy's British, but it's actually in Toledo.

6:48 And we learned that this place sells

6:50 toilet paper and regular paper and newspapers.

6:53 And then we hard cut to this old

6:55 documentary about how the newspaper used to be good.

6:57 And then we cut back to see that now it is bad.

7:00 And then the theme song plays and then we're introduced

7:02 to a second boss and then she introduces us to everyone else,

7:05 including Oscar, who we remember from the other show.

7:07 And then we meet the main character who is coming in to be the third boss.

7:12 And this is just like the first nine minutes.

7:15 It's so disjointed that it almost made me think that the cold open,

7:19 a scene that has zero actual connection to anything else in the show,

7:23 is a Peacock mandated insert demanded by some executive who walked

7:28 into the writer's room with a Google Gemini summary of the script and said,

7:31 "But how will people know that this is

7:34 "The Office," if we don't show the office?

7:39 If you guys need me for anything else, I will be on a spaceship with Katy Perry.

7:42 I listened to an episode of "The Office" Ladies

7:45 podcast about this pilot and I felt like it was

7:48 kind of telling that the very first nice thing they

7:51 said about the show was just how long it was.

7:55 [Podcaster] This episode is 33 minutes and 18 seconds and how much fun is that?

8:00 It kind of felt like when someone shows you a movie that you know they love,

8:03 but you weren't really into it.

8:05 So you have to just think of anything positive at all to say about it.

8:09 Yeah, dude, no, the aspect ratio is crazy.

8:14 [Podcaster] 1 It's called Eat Hos, get it?

8:17 [Podcaster 2] Eat House, yeah.

8:18 [Podcaster 1] And you know, hilarity ensues.

8:20 I also think it's funny just 'cause the length

8:22 is something I did not like about the pilot.

8:25 I felt like it was way too long.

8:26 This is a criticism I've had for years with other streaming

8:29 shows where they leave too much in because there's no mandated length,

8:33 but then the pacing feels off because of it.

8:36 Like one thing that's great about a lot of older

8:38 network comedies is how they just fly through the episode.

8:41 It's air tight because it had to be.

8:44 And I think that if they had just cut out

8:46 a couple of minutes of the weakest jokes in this pilot,

8:49 it would've been received a lot better than it was.

8:52 But instead a lot of people just gave up on the show altogether.

8:55 I probably would have too if I didn't force myself to be patient with it.

8:59 Most shows aren't incredible right outta the gate and pilots are difficult,

9:04 'cause there's a lot of things you have to get right.

9:06 You have to establish the plot, introduce every one of its characters,

9:10 tell a story that's somewhat wrapped up in one episode,

9:13 but that provides enough intrigue moving

9:14 forward so people want to keep watching, all while trying to be funny

9:18 and interesting with dialogue that needs to exposit, but cannot seem expository.

9:24 It's rare for a series to nail all of that on its first attempt.

9:27 So I didn't wanna hold it against

9:28 a show that the pilot is a little underwhelming, because at the very least,

9:32 I do think they set up a really interesting premise

9:35 and that's probably the best thing "The Paper" has going for it,

9:38 a show about how a once great newspaper

9:41 has been relegated to just being a clickbait

9:44 factory whose only purpose is to generate whatever

9:46 ad revenue it can for its parent company, feels super relevant.

9:50 By far, the funniest parts of the pilot are

9:52 the scenes that satirize the state of modern journalism.

9:55 I love when Esmeralda proudly shows off her favorite

9:58 article she's written and it's just like the kind

10:01 of thing you'd see at the bottom of a news

10:03 page with some sensationalized title and a crappy AI thumbnail.

10:08 And then you keep learning about about colors of cars.

10:11 There are so many colors.

10:13 To me this is what gives the paper a much stronger hook than

10:15 it would if it was just another workplace comedy about a job that sucks.

10:19 Because even though that premise worked great the first time they did it,

10:23 if that's all this show was, it would feel completely pointless.

10:26 This premise also gives you something to root for as you're watching it.

10:29 There's a goal that everybody's working towards.

10:31 The main guy, Ned, comes in with this Leslie

10:34 Knope style passion and determination to turn this company around.

10:37 And if you can buy into it, his enthusiasm starts to feel infectious.

10:41 But I think it definitely takes a few episodes to get to that point.

10:44 And part of the reason is because early

10:46 on, the vibe of the show is kind of atrocious.

10:50 It feels like everybody's an antagonist.

10:52 The other bosses are trying to sabotage Ned.

10:55 None of the employees give a shit.

10:57 Oscar's pissed off whenever he's on camera.

11:00 The industry itself is antagonistic.

11:02 Like it's already such an uphill battle for them

11:04 to try to turn around this struggling newspaper

11:07 that to add in all these other elements

11:09 on top of that, make it incredibly frustrating to watch.

11:13 It's almost the inverse problem the first season of "The Office" had.

11:16 In that show, you had to watch a bunch of people deal with one shitty guy,

11:20 but in this show, you have to watch one guy deal with a bunch of shitty people.

11:26 And it makes you not really like any of the characters

11:29 in a show that is only going to work if you like the characters.

11:32 But for the first couple episodes it feels like

11:35 everyone is just a slightly different flavor of stupid.

11:39 This guy is stupid but has kids.

11:41 This guy is stupid, but old.

11:43 This woman is stupid and loud.

11:45 There would be funny moments, but it just felt like something was missing.

11:49 Like there were some interesting ingredients in the pot,

11:52 but it wasn't melding together into a good meal.

11:55 In episode two, I really liked the dynamic they were

11:58 setting up with Adam and Adelola as a comedic duo.

12:01 When they go out and try and fail to do some investigative journalism,

12:05 it had a real parks and rec vibe.

12:07 You know, there were a couple lines I chuckled at.

12:09 We're not buying any of this shit.

12:10 You can answer questions here, you can answer them down at the station.

12:13 And it made sense that because they're so gullible,

12:16 they would believe these teenagers who lie to them about the new craze

12:19 that everyone is doing and then they naively go write a story about it.

12:22 It felt like everything was setting up for a really solid sitcom B plot,

12:27 but the specific lie they told them was that all the kids are acting like dogs.

12:32 And then they start barking and then later on the episode

12:35 ends with the two of them getting arrested for barking.

12:38 And it just felt like there had to have

12:41 been some other funny specific they could have put in.

12:44 Like that was maybe the placeholder and then

12:46 they just never replaced it with a better idea.

12:48 In episode four, they established that one of their biggest

12:50 competitors is a blog run by a local high schooler.

12:53 And it's fun because even though there's this rivalry there,

12:57 at the end of the day it's just a random kid.

12:59 As things go back and forth,

13:01 you feel like it's all gonna lead up to something big and funny

13:05 and then all of a sudden the episode just kind of ends.

13:08 They trick him into putting out a fake story to damage his credibility.

13:11 They write their own article about it and then Ned is like,

13:15 Hmm, maybe we shouldn't have done that.

13:16 And then it's over.

13:17 So like the climax of the episode is just

13:20 a quiet reaction to something that happened off screen.

13:23 The ending of every episode doesn't need

13:25 to be some outlandish over the top moment,

13:28 but I feel like it should at least crescendo.

13:30 You know, that's what you tend to expect out of a sitcom,

13:33 that they're gonna set up two or three different storylines,

13:35 that'll each slowly build up until they all converge in a satisfying way.

13:40 And almost every one of these early episodes

13:43 just kind of fizzles out at the end.

13:45 Like we're kind of getting close, but we're never all the way there.

13:49 And that was my biggest opinion about the show through the first four episodes.

13:52 But then for whatever reason, suddenly in episode five,

13:56 everything kind of started to click for me.

13:58 Maybe it was just more consistently good writing.

14:00 Maybe it was that I had now had enough time to understand the characters.

14:04 Maybe it was the Sawyer from "Lost" cameo.

14:07 It was probably that.

14:07 But if I had to narrow it down to just one thing,

14:10 I think it would be that this is

14:12 when the Esmeralda character finally makes sense.

14:15 By far, the most polarizing thing about the show is Esmeralda.

14:21 People hate her.

14:23 A lot of viewers have said she's

14:24 the reason they stopped watching the show altogether.

14:27 They say she's annoying and too much and that she's trying too hard.

14:31 And if anyone from Peacock is reading all of these comments,

14:34 I am begging you to ignore them.

14:37 They are wrong.

14:38 She is hilarious.

14:39 This show would be so fucking boring without her.

14:43 She's kind of the only character with energy and it's such a fun energy.

14:48 Her performance feels completely unique.

14:50 I feel like never seen this exact character on TV before and I love it.

14:55 Is she annoying sometimes?

14:56 Absolutely.

14:58 But she's supposed to be.

14:59 That's kind of her role on the show is

15:02 to cause chaos that everybody else has to deal with.

15:05 But it's not because she's just a terrible person,

15:07 it's usually out of self-preservation.

15:09 She feels threatened when Ned comes in and is

15:12 potentially better at doing her job than she is.

15:15 So she tries to make his life more difficult.

15:17 And because her motives are always so transparent,

15:20 I feel like you can empathize with her.

15:22 Sometimes she does way too much because she's so desperate for approval.

15:28 It's fun to watch someone who wears their emotions

15:31 on their sleeve and is incapable of hiding how they feel.

15:34 And I don't know if you noticed,

15:36 but almost everything I just said is also how you could describe Michael Scott.

15:41 I'm not saying that this performance is as good

15:44 as Steve Carell was in the prime of his career,

15:47 but I like that it's different enough to stand on its own.

15:49 Michael Scott was lightning in a bottle

15:51 and the thing they say about lightning is, you can't catch it twice.

15:54 So I'm glad they didn't try to.

15:56 That they didn't try to replace that character

15:58 with someone doing a lot of the same things,

16:01 with the same look and the same mannerisms.

16:04 Like Tim Key, also very funny in this.

16:06 From the moment he steps on screen,

16:08 it just kind of feels like he's doing a Ricky Gervais impression.

16:11 He's doing a great job, but it certainly doesn't feel new.

16:14 Whereas Sabrina Impacciatore feels very refreshing.

16:17 And I'm just hoping the showrunners are aware

16:19 of what they have in her and aren't

16:20 going to lobotomize the show in an effort to appease a handful of angry reviews.

16:26 It's more than a handful, but still.

16:27 Overall, episode five is when this show really started to gel

16:30 for me and it only continued through the rest of the season.

16:33 Each character started to become more defined

16:35 and not just like interchangeable dumb asses.

16:39 Just can't have any more kids.

16:40 Four is just about manageable, 'cause you get one per hand per adult,

16:44 but five, I don't even, I've been thinking like, how do you even do that?

16:49 Do you use a foot and then people think you're kicking them?

16:51 [Drew] Once Ken and Esmeralda realize that their goals

16:54 are aligned and they become more of a team, their dynamic gets so much funnier.

16:58 Also, as a long time fan of Eric Rahill.

17:00 It's just really cool to see him get more opportunities,

17:03 both as an actor and a writer.

17:05 His character Travis is someone I am intrigued

17:07 by, but I still think has a lot of untapped potential.

17:10 My favorite arc in the whole show starts in episode seven when they introduced

17:15 their new product of flushable glove that you can use to wipe your ass.

17:18 And ends in episode eight when Esmeralda

17:20 takes her son to audition for the commercial.

17:23 Do my rewrite.

17:24 You know, I'm a journalist, I like writing, so.

17:28 I was born filthy in sin so beyond.

17:30 [Esmeralda] not that one.

17:31 It's baseball season and the only stains my single

17:33 mom should be getting outta my pants are grass stains.

17:35 This specific tone and style of comedy is something I missed

17:39 from the Greg Daniels cinematic universe and I'm happy to have it back.

17:43 The second half of the season isn't just funnier than the first half.

17:46 In a lot of ways it kind of feels like a different show.

17:48 It's significantly less pessimistic, so it's not as draining to watch.

17:53 For me, it started to have that comfy sitcom feeling where it's like,

17:56 is this the greatest show in the world?

17:58 No, but if there were 80 more episodes of this, I

18:02 would happily watch all of them over the course of a month.

18:04 Unfortunately though,

18:04 right as things are all coming together for "The Paper," it

18:08 ends with a finale that just felt so forced and rushed.

18:12 Just a few hours of screen time ago,

18:15 Ned came into an office with no journalists and no skills.

18:20 The first paper they put out had the headline,

18:24 no news is good news because everybody messed up

18:26 so bad they couldn't even publish something in time.

18:29 And then in the season finale, just eight episodes later,

18:32 the Toledo Truth teller wins a bunch of awards and also Ned and Mayor

18:37 professor love for each other and everything works out for everybody in the end.

18:39 And I think this is where the show needs to decide what it wants to be.

18:43 Do they want it to be about a bunch of incompetent

18:46 morons failing to do their jobs in an entertaining way,

18:50 or do they want it to be a kind

18:52 of feel good story about the scrappy underdogs making a comeback,

18:56 because you can't really do both.

18:57 You can't have seven episodes dedicated to how stupid everybody is,

19:02 and then three episodes later they're winning journalism awards.

19:06 It's not a satisfying ending if it doesn't make any sense.

19:10 Like, I'm not saying you should have to drag

19:12 everything out just for the sake of making it longer,

19:15 but a feel good story is really only gonna feel

19:19 as good as the amount of time it took to get there.

19:22 In "Parks and Rec," Leslie wins the election

19:24 for city council at the end of season four, about 70 episodes into the show.

19:30 In "The Office," Jim and Pam had all

19:32 this tension and chemistry through the first two seasons,

19:34 but they didn't kiss for the first time until 30 episodes in.

19:38 So when those things finally happened, it felt like a huge deal,

19:41 because we'd spent so much time building up to it.

19:45 I understand from the showrunner's point of view,

19:46 they were only given 10 episodes to work

19:48 with, so they probably just wanted to give

19:50 it a nice happy ending just in case Peacock didn't give them a season two.

19:53 But I really hope going forward, they can get that number closer to 20

19:57 or 25 episodes to give everything a chance to breathe.

19:59 They've already renewed it for a season two

20:01 and they're planning to air the current episodes on NBC,

20:04 so maybe it'll get more of the network sitcom treatment going forward.

20:08 Which would be good because I think that's how this show would best thrive.

20:11 Like I said, "The Paper" made me realize how much

20:13 I missed being able to casually watch a new sitcom.

20:16 The kinds of shows that you can watch

20:18 a few episodes every night over the course of like

20:20 three months and have it serve as this cozy

20:23 distraction from whatever might be stressing you out in life.

20:26 It's like the comfortability of a familiar set and a group

20:29 of people you just get to spend a bunch of time with.

20:32 Clearly people still yearn for this type of show

20:35 and there just aren't nearly as many of them made anymore.

20:38 That energy is more often put into the high quality prestige dramedies.

20:42 You know, shows that are funny sometimes,

20:44 but also stressful and we can't put a bunch

20:47 episodes out because we're trying to win Emmy's.

20:49 There are a few network sitcoms that have received a decent sized audience.

20:53 I just started watching "Abbott Elementary," and I like that so far.

20:57 I've heard "St.

20:58 Denis Medical" is pretty funny, but every time I look at the title,

21:01 my "Red Dead" ass wants to call it Saint Denis.

21:03 And judging by the number of commercials I've seen for ghosts,

21:07 every time I've tried to watch football the past six years,

21:09 it seems like that one's doing pretty well too.

21:11 But the most watched shows continue to be

21:14 comedies that wrapped up over a decade ago.

21:17 It's kind of funny that because of the way TV has evolved,

21:19 the best case scenario for these sitcoms is that they

21:23 garner just enough of an audience to keep making it.

21:25 And then once all seven seasons are done

21:28 and it can be thrown onto Netflix eight years later,

21:30 that's when it becomes the most popular it's ever been by a mile.

21:34 But I also wonder if it's only gonna get harder for sitcoms to even

21:37 get to that point because of how

21:39 different our approach to entertainment has become.

21:41 Historically speaking,

21:42 every sitcom needs some amount of time for the pieces to all come together,

21:47 but the amount of time that people, myself included,

21:50 are generally willing to give something, is shorter than it's ever been.

21:54 If you go on TikTok or Instagram somewhat regularly,

21:57 you've probably gotten used to the feeling of, if

22:00 this video does not interest me within one second,

22:03 I'm getting the hell outta here.

22:05 Make me laugh right now or stop wasting my time.

22:09 My precious, precious time that I spend nine hours a day

22:13 of melting my brain with the flashlight I keep in my pocket.

22:16 "The Office," was an incredible success story,

22:19 but I have to wonder if that first season came out today,

22:23 would people be willing to give the same amount

22:26 of time for the show to figure itself out?

22:28 Or because of our increased impatience,

22:30 would we be much quicker to just write it off?

22:32 I don't know, because this is a hypothetical scenario I made up in my head.

22:36 Anyway, I'm optimistic about the paper.

22:38 I think they've planted a lot of interesting seeds

22:40 and I'm curious to see what it can grow into.

22:42 And at the same time, I understand the frustration from people who

22:45 don't even want to give it a chance,

22:47 because it does seem like yet another reboot coming

22:51 along to dangle something familiar in front of us, so we stand and cheer.

22:54 But as long as they continue to make the show

22:56 its own thing and lean less into all the nostalgia bait,

22:59 I think there's a lot of potential here.

23:01 In the same way that "Parks and Recreation," was successful

23:03 without ever needing to have its universe tie into the offices,

23:08 I think this show can succeed on its

23:10 own the more it moves away from the original.

23:12 But no matter what they do, they're gonna disappoint someone.

23:14 If they keep Esmeralda around, some people are gonna stop watching.

23:18 If they get rid of her, I'll stop watching.

23:20 And for some people it seems like they're only gonna

23:22 keep watching just in case more "Office" characters pop in.

23:25 What if Dwight had a son?

23:27 And what if Jim had a son and then they could be friends

23:30 and then we could just do the same exact show with the same exact characters,

23:34 but played by different actors.

23:35 What is this HBO's "Harry Potter"?

23:37 Series.

23:37 Move on.

23:38 Nothing you ever watch is going to immediately be

23:41 on par with the show you've watched a hundred hours of.

23:45 You gotta open your heart up first, brother.

23:47 All I ask is that you try not to develop

23:49 a strong opinion about something before you even give it a chance.

23:52 Try to go into everything with a clean slate and if you like it, awesome.

23:55 If you don't, that's fine too.

23:57 But at least you figured that out on your own.

23:59 Just don't let some stranger on the internet

24:01 tell you how you should feel about something.

24:03 Unless it's me, of course.

24:05 You can trust me.

24:06 Anyway, thank you so much for watching this video.

24:07 I know that a random ass Peacock show is not exactly

24:11 the most pressing thing going on in the world right now,

24:13 but lately my brain has felt like mush.

24:15 So for the time being, this is the best I can do.

24:17 Be sure to subscribe if you wanna see my next video,

24:19 where I will be ranking every number in order of how big they are.

24:24 Bye.