[UPDATE: Looks like most people agree with this, now the reviews are finally out. Here's hoping the weeks ahead solve the problem!]
There is one major difference of course, between Parks & Recreation and The Office. There's only one person on The Office that we'd ask our wife if we could make out with. Whereas this = yowza. Good God. Hey, if you squint really hard, Aziz Ansari kind of looks just like us! Go for it Squint Aziz! Make us proud!!!
OK. Well, now that that little reverie is over, um, turns out that those reports from P&R focus groups are probably true: it's too much like The Office. Now you might say: "But Remote Island, why is that bad?" And we'd say: we'll for one thing, putting an Amy Poehler-shaped peg in a Steve Carell-shaped hole sounds a) only a little kinky, and b) kind of sad, considering that one of Poehler's many many many talents is flexibility. And for another thing: funny how most of those Christopher Guest movies actually feel different from each other, huh? OK, that's not quite an answer to the initial question, but it's a valid observation, right? A Mighty Wind doesn't feel like a rip-off of Spinal Tap or Waiting for Guffman, even if there are a number of similarities between them. Right? You can do a mockumentary and not keep doing the same thing...
Anyway, enough. Wanna take a look for yourself?
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