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, popularizing not just its U.K. predecessor’s original mockumentary format but a whole style of post-millennial workplace comedy that’s branched out to the likes of Parks and Recreation , Brooklyn Nine-Nine , Superstore , and St. Denis Medical , among others. If it was difficult to watch any of those shows without thinking of The Office , at least at first, The Paper makes

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