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SERIES REVIEW by Richard Roeper RUTHERFORD FALLS Three stars
If you revisit the first few episodes of classic workplace sitcoms such as The Office and Parks & Recreation, you ll notice the writers and the ensemble casts took a while to find their voice and their rhythm, and sometimes things seem a little . not quite there. Michael Scott is more mean than lovably clueless, Tommy Haverford comes across as brooding and cynical, and who ARE some of those people lurking in the background at Dunder-Mifflin and the Pawnee Parks Department, anyway? Where d they go?
Watching the first four episodes of the smart and breezy and instantly likable Peacock sitcom Rutherford Falls, I wondered which of the supporting characters would eventually emerge to become major featured players and which might fall by the wayside, and whether this new vehicle for Office alum Ed Helms and a terrific ensemble would make that leap from promising vehicle to multiseason hit.
A 10-episode series available Thursday on Peacock. Watching the first four episodes of the smart and breezy and instantly likable Peacock sitcom “Rutherford Falls,” I wondered which of the supporting characters would eventually emerge to become major featured players and which might fall by the wayside and whether this new vehicle for “Office” alum Ed Helms and a terrific ensemble would make that leap from promising vehicle to multi-season hit. I wouldn’t bet against it. They’re off to a great start. “Rutherford Falls” kicks off with a controversy over a statue of a town founder, and while there are obvious parallels to real-world events, THIS particular dust-up is at least initially more about the location of the statue than anything else. It’s at the spot in upstate New York where colonial settler Lawrence Rutherford founded the town through a treaty with the local Minishonka Nation in 1638 a spot that’s now smack-dab in the middle