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1 week agoHow 'The Paper' Pulled Off the Impossible: An 'Office' Spin-off.
Effortless physical comedy and precise timing generate enduring laughter and shape the nostalgic tone of The Office spin-off, The Paper.
This highly physical comedy about two competitive swimmers begins at the beginning not with a referee's whistle but a stand-alone aquatic opus racing through humans' evolution from fish. In caps, goggles and bathing suits, Alexander Burnett and Ellie Whittaker recount our abiding passion for the water, from the earliest forms of life to Napoleon diving into an especially wet misremembering of Waterloo,