Difficult to say whether it is daring or insane to revive a daily newspaper in the digital AI year 2025. So not online. Printed! Anyone who sees the ten -divider “The Paper” should consider the brave resuscitation of the “Toledo Truth Teller” to be inadequate with each episode. After all, there has been a lot since the golden era of journalism, oh: everything! – changed. The new editor -in -chief also learns that quickly when he enters the publishing house.
There the Ned Sampson (Domhnall Gleeson) team shares the ninth floor with a toilet paper manufacturer. Whereby – share? Two or three tables are reserved for eight unmotivated employees, where they fill their poorly clicked news portal with bullshit. What a difference to 1971. At that time, 100 highly motivated full journalists kept “the democracy going,” as TTT editor John Stack (tracy letts) brags in a black and white flashback in the same place.
If the bustle in the style of the CBS series “Lou Grant” appears surrealer as the colorful uneventful of today: In the same era, Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman also brought in the “incorruptible” Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein because the Hollywood version of the Washington Post in the Watergate scandal is so useful, Hectic and posture drives were like the real. Whether the emotionless, lethargic but nicotine -free indoor climate in the fictional “Toledo Truth Teller” corresponds to reality.
At the latest when TTT accountant Martinez (Oscar Nuñez) steps in front of the camera and demands that you switch off, fans of the mockmentary »The Office« recognize the filer of paper trade Dunder Mifflin-20 years ago the counterpart from Bernd Stromberg’s Capitol insurance. At that time, as in the British original and German copy, NBC had fake offices from fake filmmakers documented. Now Sky continues his work in the fourth largest city of Ohios – which is already strange thanks to the old showrunner Greg Daniels to be strange.
Because the series was again produced by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant again, everything seems to be like back then. Because the 19 authors and directors have once again created an ensemble of ordinary archetypes. Under Ned’s management, the Eitle boss stumbles off the duty (Tim Key), the melancholic assistant Nicole (Ramona Young) and the Italian Vamp Esmeralda (Sabrina Impacciatore) for clichéd figures from office clown Detrick (Melvin Gregg) to the Senil press Fossil Dave) around.
As with “Stromberg”, all of them are stereotypical trouble in the Morast and do all sorts of things, rarely their work. On the one hand. On the other hand, the power structure has shifted. While Michael Scott was the biggest failure in the “Office” and yet always stepped down, Ned Sampson was honest for his resurrection 137 years after the “Paper” was founded – and even knows a professional in his side with the former military reporter Mare (Chelsea Frei) in the fight against the concentrated incompetence. Your boss is therefore not a sting in the meat of his employees and superiors; It is really about the well -being of workforce, journalism, democracy, ergo: not his own ego. A form of altruism that is now an exception. While reporters were on canvas and screen, once busy craftsmen on the shell of the fourth violence, their reputation fell into the bottom, especially in this country. When Helmut Dietl with Baby Schimmerlos (“Kir Royal”) and Hermann Willié (“Schtonk”) created splendid specimens of the megalomaniacs journal in the 80s, local journalists also like to sank in mediocre dreams.
It is all the better that “The Paper” now entrust journalists with the insanically courageous plan to put on a traditional sheet in the middle of the print crisis. After ten episodes, it indicates that they try it even longer. Keep it up!
Runs on Sky