The first season of The Paper , Peacock ‘s sorta kinda demi-spinoff of NBC’s The Office , is better than the first season of that show or the first season of NBC’s Parks and Recreation , which started its own creative life as a sorta kinda demi-spinoff of The Office before it became merely a stylistic and spiritual companion.

This is one of those things that sounds like a big deal if you put it on a billboard — “ The Paper Is Better Than The Office or Parks and Recreation !”. But it is, ultimately, a reminder that The Office launched with a bumpy first season that struggled to blend new episodes and ill-fated remakes of the beloved BBC series before finding is own unique rhythms, while Parks and Recreation underwent one of TV’s all-time great transformations from

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