Performative acting makes no sense

I just noticed something - for example, when Leslie pulls down his pants, she makes some kind of 'ta-da'-performance, that just doesn't work.

BTW, is her obsession with whipped cream supposed to be something charming or funny? It's just unhealthy and annoying at best.

I wonder if it's because she tries to be Michael Scott and fails, but her 'acting' is so 'plastic', when it comes to that kind of stuff, that it comes off as creepy and 'uncanny valley', like someone did not program that gynoid correctly.

That pants down-scene made me realize what it is that bothers me so much about her poor, pale shadow of an imitation of Michael Scott - it's that while Steven was able to express his best self and passionately dive into any skit or scene, truly DELIVERING something great..

..this 'Leslie' simply 'performs' and thinks that is just as good.

What I mean is, it's like someone doing a bad book report; it's not organic, it's not natural, it's not smooth and flowing, like Kramer's antics always were - it's 'performative' in the sense that she 'performs' it like George McFly when he rehearses the 'Hey you, get your damn hands off'-scene.

So instead of 'becoming the character', she 'performs the character', and that makes it always look SO fake and performative instead of organic and actually expressive. She doesn't express the feeling/experience, she expresses the sound and motion - the 'performance' of the scene instead of the emotion of it.

I think this is a big part of why her character comes off as so unlikable, besides the mug, of course. I hope they switch to a better lead in later seasons, I can't wade through more of season two.. I'll give this show a chance with season three, but if it's the same kind of boring BS with no point and nothing likable about it, I have no choice but condemn this blatant rip-off of 'The Office' as the worst thing you can choose to watch.