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Positive:
24
Mixed:
14
Negative:
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Critic Reviews
The IndependentSep 4, 2025
Season 1 Review:
The Paper will inevitably be compared to The Office, and in largely unfavourable terms. But the question of whether it is good enough to survive on its own is moot. It doesn’t have to. Fans of The Office will give it a go, and over the course of a slow-burn first season, come to feel some affection for the denizens of the Truth Teller Tower.
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Sep 3, 2025
Season 1 Review:
The show itself struggles to match what it seems to think viewers want from it, and is best when it goes in its own direction. (Kudos to the cameos from the great Tracy Letts as the former editor, who shows up in newsreels from back in the day, when the paper was mighty.)
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Sep 4, 2025
Season 1 Review:
A show like “Parks and Recreation” abandoned that formula altogether and I respect that “The Paper” also wants to change things up by putting a dedicated but somewhat hapless Jim Halpert equivalent in charge. A worthy experiment. But one that ultimately doesn’t work.
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Sep 3, 2025
Season 1 Review:
The Paper doesn’t really work as a direct Office replacement, since even at its strongest, it never remotely approaches the comedic levels of its parent show. But it may at least function as a methadone-like substitute for fans who love the original but feel like they need to stop rewatching “Casino Night” and “The Lover” over and over again.
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Sep 3, 2025
Season 1 Review:
Starts fast, funny and competent, with an easy command of its mockumentary template. But the template is also a problem; the show feels too much like a Mad Libs version of the characters and dynamics from “The Office” and similar shows, without a firm identity of its own.
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The TelegraphSep 5, 2025
Season 1 Review:
When the show forces the characters into something approaching a comic scenario – Ned and Mare ad-libbing badly as a married couple in a mattress shop to try to get a scoop – it allows the gifted cast to shine. Otherwise, it’s a tepid mockumentary about a gaggle of cutesy weirdos.
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