It is not new for a drift or a follow -up series to continue the story of an inherited character who is from a successful television program that has been in the air for some time. After a decade, you might think: “Who cares? People have evolved.” It could be true for some people, but not for those who have kept the comedy of The officewhich has remained a mainly timeless classic since its end in 2013.
However The office With Steve Carell (who left the series in season 7), A quiet place Director John Krasinski, Rainn Wilson, Jenna Fischer and many others, it is not the highest characters who Paper I wanted to bring back for another tour in the chair of false documentaries. PaperInstead, Rames Oscar Nunez like Oscar Martinez, who played a prolific role throughout the whole of The officerun. However, the choice of bringing Oscar backtracking his head. He did not have the most important arcs of character, and he had no impact on the show like Michael Scott or Dwight Schrute. But that’s exactly why Paper I had to bring it back. Oscar is finally ready for the spotlight.
The office has not given room for the Oscars to grow
Oscar is not the main man of PaperBut the essential is the same. In The officeOscar was the “hetero” archetype (despite being gay). He was an know-how for the most eccentric characters to react and bounce back. It was essential to comedy because it was simply normal. His only niche was that he was gay, which was a very type of character construction. An entire episode, entitled “Gay Witch Hunt”, turned around Michael’s horribly unsuccessful attempt to create a politically correct atmosphere when he accidentally exceeds Oscar in the office. Other times, the conflict appeared between Oscar and Angela because of its conservative Christian values, but it apologized later and came to accept its sexuality.
The only personal aspect of Oscar’s story which did not imply that it was accountable or gay, was his announcement that he presented himself for a siege in the Senate of Pennsylvania in the final of the series. But other than that, there is not much about Oscar who would have harvested him as one of the most well written characters in the series. This does not mean that it was badly written by all means; He took his work very seriously as an ordinary accountant who was often anchor in a chaotic workplace. But there was so much more to Oscar than The office Viewers have made it possible to see.
The paper gives Oscar a chance to get out of his shell
It is the type of reasoning that made the co-creators Greg Daniels and Michael Koman believe that Oscar was the competitor of perfect return for Paper. “As a character, he hadn’t really had a huge change,” Daniels told Entertainment Weekly. “He is roughly the same person. Many other characters have had a huge change: Michael got married and moved to Colorado, Dwight and Angela turned into different people. One thing that seduced us was that Oscar had incalculable stories in him.” It is true that the story of Oscar did not feel finished in many ways.
He has not grown up as a person or achieved something that changes life. Regarding the public, he lost the race in the Senate and probably tried to avoid the embarrassment of losing to Toledo, Ohio. In PaperHe is always the same normal guy who just wants to do his boring office work at the Toledo Truth-Teller. But he now has a decisive obstacle that he works to overcome: the slight shame he feels for his ambitious dreams. When Ned Sampson arrives with great ideas on the future of the truth function, Oscar only expresses his excitement in silence.
He gives Ned anonymously a sudoku puzzle as a submission to fill the newspaper and actively tries to avoid using the word “fun” as a way to describe his work. “To say that work is fun is a form of pressure. Frankly, it gives me an SSPT of an old boss,” said Oscar, referring to his old manager, Michael. Oscar is maintained in the normal stereotype because of his relationship in distress with Michael and the documentary team. Now he has to learn to enjoy work and run after his passions.
When the document crew arrives at the Toldo Truth-Teller, Oscar is the most frank against filming and the interview. But by the final of season 1, he kisses as a documentary subject when accepting his prize. It is the only one from the original distribution which is filmed again, so perhaps this and journalism is what it was born to do. Oscar finally found his spark evolve as a character, and a reason to find the closure during Paper.
The paper is now streaming on Peacock. A second season is in development.
Paper
- Release date
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September 4, 2025
- Writers
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Greg Daniels, Michael Koman
