Ned Sampson leads the Toledo Truth Teller, a once-stately Midwestern newspaper now on life support, understaffed, reliant on wire services and sharing space with a toilet paper company. The series adopts a mockumentary format with multiple camera crews, talking-head confessionals, and workplace comedy rhythms that mirror The Office. The writing balances satire and affection, blending sharp humor with moments that are inspirational, sobering, and melancholic. The cast, led by Domhnall Gleeson, delivers likable, earnest performances. The show celebrates the noblest aspects of journalism while lampooning the struggles of local newsrooms in the 2020s.
He is in charge of a Midwestern newspaper that once employed hundreds of reporters, broke important stories, and had their own printing presses rumbling in the basement of the stately building bearing its name-but this paper is now on life support, woefully understaffed, subscribing to wire services for the bulk of its content, and sharing floor space with a toilet paper company.
That could be the premise for a depressing documentary about the state of print journalism in the 2020s-but Peacock's mockumentary series "The Paper" is a smart, breezy, good-natured sitcom, and something of a love letter to the noblest aspects of the profession. There's crisp writing and a likable cast led by an earnest performance from the versatile Domhnall Gleeson as Ned Sampson, the man brought in to save the Toledo Truth Teller.
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