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By Chris Snellgrove
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Many fans The office confused when NBC announced that the classic show would only have a streaming spinoff, The paperwho followed a failed newspaper rather than a failing newspaper company. The side effect on Peacock recently decreased and has won some remarkably sound reviews. Nevertheless, I have bad news for fans and NBC operations alike: Despite these good scales, this side -effect The office still doomed to fail.
On paper (AHEM), the new spinoff has had a great start: on rotten tomatoes, The paperThe first season has an 85 percent critical score. That is significantly higher than that of the 71 percent critical score The office won for his first season. But the fan response reveals something different: on Rotten tomatoesthe audience score for The office Season 1 is 81 percent while the audience scored for The paper at 75 percent.
This helps to show the first reason why The paper is destined to fail, at least according to the show’s standards of which it spins. The first season The office must be admitted rockyAnd many critics who did not love his first appearance compared him negatively with the original British version of the show. But congregations in love immediately fell with remarkable characters like Michael, Jim, and Dwight. The characters on The paperhowever, is primarily empty amalgams from the characters The officeAnd that’s why Oscar is there: serving as a constant reminder that this strange new spinoff (though not so good) is associated with one of the largest seating comedy ever.
That is bad news to The paperCould (as The office Before he) get better hold of his characters if given enough time. But is less likely to have more time for the simple fact that this is a streaming show only PeacockOne of the streamers with the smallest subscribers. The office Thrived as a network comedy with millions of viewers; The paper likely to die because she is a specialist show on a specialist Streamer, and will only take a weekend or two before everyone who enjoyed his 10-chapter season 1 moved on to the next big stream release.
It is also worth noting, regardless of its quality, The paper having to compete in many, much More overcrowded media landscape. The office debuted in 2005, the same year as Youtube invented and two years before Netflix begins to stream instead of just posting discs. Most people turned to television about their entertainment needs back then, and broadcasting on the popular NBC network helped the show gain tremendous momentum years Before normalizing streaming as the default type of entertainment for audiences (especially younger audiences).
Now, the best written chapter of The paper You must compete with countless YouTube and Tiktok channels, streaming series only endlessly, and a non-stop bevy of TV sitting comedy. This is great for consumers, of course: something new to watch constantly and some new favorite is waiting to be found. But this is terrible to The paper because he will never be able to win almost As many fans as The officeA show that became a pop culture phenomenon back when her competition was almost entirely limited to television.
The paper It may still be successful in its own way, limping over a season or two others, so that NBC can try to attract new subscribers to sign up for Peacock. Ironically, though, one of the main reasons to get a peacock subscription is to watch the extended editions of The officeMany include great gags and character moments cut for television. But an ambitious new side effect NBC is destined to die in the shadows of its predecessor as more fans find that they would rather just look at extra pictures of their favorite Job characters or emotionally invest in these empty doppelgangers The paper.
