re: The Paper, The Office spinoff, Season 2 dropped

Okay, so before watching the new season I decided to rewatch S1. And I remember hating Esmerelda and thinking she should have been fired. But holy shite, it was way more than I remember, so much so that I took notes.

This is how horrible she is:

E1. She sends the email while in the meeting with Ned saying Ned wasn’t me too’d. Just a completely insubordinate thing to do.

E2. She sets up the lunch with Ned and Marv solely to make Ned look bad. She also cuts their subscription to the Wire to pull stories from, and blamed it on Ned (which her doing that intentionally is inexcusable and she should've been fired on the spot). She also tricks Nicole into letting her write the “letter from the editor” for the paper just to make Ned look bad and prop herself up. She also knows Ned is in a time crunch but tries to force an extended lunch to frick him over.

E3. She lied about Mare leaving (or at the very least said something when she shouldn't have) and accused Ned of being attracted to a subordinate (which he really wasn't at that point), and calls Mare an asexual, and pushes him toward asking Mare about her sexuality. She also intentionally hides the meeting with Marv from Ned and calls him out in front of everyone there.

E4. When Ned is apologizing to the high school kid she takes over and tells the kid that Ned resents children because he can’t have them for some reason. She also sends the fake press release when Ned doesn’t want to send it.

E6. She yells at Ned and belittles him in front of the office at a meeting.

E7. She plots with Ken to get Ned (and then Marv) fired.

E9. She sexually assaults Barry (kisses him because of her dreams about him).

E10. Her outburst during the Ohio journalism awards singing during the In Memoriam part and embarrassing the whole company was a disgrace. Then the acceptance speech disaster with Ken. And then fake fainting during Ned’s speech.



I get that she's a wild character, but holy shite I hope they tone her way down in S2. Because when she is just normal annoying, she is a decent foil/character. But man they push her so far over the edge into the point of absurdity time and time again.

I'm halfway through this season and it has been great. Esmeralda is pretty bad mostly.