>>219790945
Parks and Rec is only good for season 1 and immediately turns to shit but since most people are retards they'll tell you season 1 is the only bad one.

>>219790945
Someone wrote an insightful post a while back about how Parks and Rec started out as a show that lampooned bureaucrats and airheaded small government drones. Then it later became a show that vindicated all their progressive views and moral crusades. Maybe someone smarter than me can find it in the archive.

>>219791055
I stopped watching in s2. Does that ring true?

>>219791644
Somewhat. Now that I think about it. It went off the rails in S4 I think

>>219791008
Season 2 is fine, s3 is meh, 4 is eh, and everything else is groanful but there’s a few serviceable jokes here and there

What is the subtext behind Ann's hole being filled by Leslie?

>>219791644
yeah pretty much
the show consistently makes the point that the people working in the government are all do-gooders trying to do the right thing but the idiotic people of pawnee and the evil corporations (sweetums and that other burger restaurant) for example are getting in the way of that
in addition to that it seems to make the argument that all we have to do is keep electing the right people (leslie knope) and they'll fix everything that's wrong with the country, it goes to the point of making her president by the end of the show

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>>219792676
>the problem with democracy is the retarded voters and those that buy them
Well, she’s not wrong. Government would be great if everyone in it was a Leslie personality type

>>219791055
It started as a show featuring a hopeless optimistic bureaucrat being blocked by the system. The core season 1 plot point (building a park in an empty lot) doesn't happen for like half a decade in the shows own timeline. As it got later in the show it becomes more about the staff finding success and the outcomes of the various people. Bureaucrats are frequently mocked as are the tone deaf government choices (i.e. the Pawnee murals), and the spending by these employees. It just ends on the more optimistic tech + younger gov idealism that became more prominent during Obama. As with everything in current times, you are living in the backlash from that era as the established power structures slowly give way to the new .

That being said, it's an enjoyable show if you want light entertainment and some fun inside jokes. I consider it to be more enjoyable than the office but I also prefer absurdism in a lot of comedy and this show had some great absurdist bits.

>>219792676
Leslie is never really portrayed as a perfect person who can do no wrong though. While her heart is genuinely always in the right place, she's extremely childish and petty when she doesn't get her way and essentially lives like a hoarder. She's also a spinster cat lady in the first couple seasons before the show wrote in Ben as a love interest for her because he accepts all her wacky quirks

>>219790945
Dipshit

>>219794637
Uncalled for