By Michael Ayers
After the pilot of NBC’s much touted “Office” spin-off aired, my immediate reaction was that this was indeed "The Office," just slight tweaked.
Up front, Amy Poehler’s Leslie Knope resembled a female Michael Scott -- surely to bumble her way through the ranks of government bureaucracy instead of corporate bureaucracy. The jokes seemed to rely on Poehler’s dumbfounded optimism, all the while pitting this in the backdrop of (another) small town America setting -- a place that never seems funny when you’re actually driving thro...
After the pilot of NBC’s much touted “Office” spin-off aired, my immediate reaction was that this was indeed "The Office," just slight tweaked.
Up front, Amy Poehler’s Leslie Knope resembled a female Michael Scott -- surely to bumble her way through the ranks of government bureaucracy instead of corporate bureaucracy. The jokes seemed to rely on Poehler’s dumbfounded optimism, all the while pitting this in the backdrop of (another) small town America setting -- a place that never seems funny when you’re actually driving thro...
- 5/21/2009
- by Lew Harris
- The Wrap
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