Mullally is one of many engaging guest stars to appear in the second season, as Will Arnett plays another failed love interest for Leslie, Fred Armisen plays a militaristic parks director from Venezuela, John Larroquette appears as an old flame of Leslie's mom (Pamela Reed), Andy Samberg steps in as a park ranger and Paul Scheer is an overly-enthusiastic charity worker. The personal storyline that takes home the prize however takes place in "Ron and Tammy," which introduces Ron's hellcat ex-wife Tammy 2, played with sexual gusto by Offerman's real wife Megan Mullally. Their positions are still important and they are still actively working, but the show is more focused on finding out who the people in those jobs are, whether it's looking at Tom's marriage, Leslie's attempts to date a police officer named Dave (Louis CK) or the burgeoning relationship between April and Andy. In the second season however, the governmental storylines take a bit of a backseat in favor of developing the characters. Parks and Rec is a comedy about good people trying to do the right thing, particularly Leslie, who struggles to fight her way through the corrupt world of small-town government. The characters can certainly be mean and they can be vindictive, but if they are, it's out of care for another. The residents of Pawnee can be opportunistic like Tom Haverford (Aziz Ansari), self-absorbed like Donna Meagle (Retta) or just dopey like Garry (Jim O'Heir), but they always care, even if they hide it as well as dark college intern April Ludgate (Aubrey Plaza.) The show was one of several at the time, including Community, which wore their earnest nature like a badge, defying a world that laughs at people rather than with them. Park of the problem was the tone of the show, and how Mark, a complete and utter cynic played well by Schneider, didn't fit it. No one from that first season is very recognizable, be it suit-wearing Libertarian Ron Swanson (Nick Offerman), shiftless layabout Andy Dwyer (Chris Pratt) or apathetic nurse Ann Perkins (Jones.) The relationship triangle/quadrangle that was attempted between Leslie, Ann, Andy and city planner Mark Brandanawicz (Paul Schneider) just didn't work either, with Mark leaving the show in the second season. If the comparisons to The Office weren't helping, the fact that, like that show, Parks and Rec struggled to find its voice at first, could have been deadly. In fact, she wasn't much like the character she would become many years later, seeming less capable and more silly. It didn't start off great, as the six-episode first season was uneven, as deputy Parks and Recreation director Leslie Knope (Amy Poehler) didn't emerge fully-formed. With time however, the comparisons faded, especially when Parks and Recreation passed its progenitor and ended up with a stronger overall run, becoming the standard-bearer in mockumentary television comedy. That's for good reason, since that's exactly what the goal was in producing the show, and with The Office alum Rashida Jones in a lead role, the similarities would be hard to miss. When it first arrived on the scene, Parks and Rec (as it would come to be known affectionately) felt like just a knockoff of NBC's hit sitcom The Office. DVDTalk has reviews of the first six sets.
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The series ran for seven seasons on NBC, ending in 2015, and the show's seven seasons have been released on DVD.
Hates: Saying goodbye, NBC's retreat from comedyĪ sort-of spin-off from The Office, building off the office documentary concept rather than any character, Parks and Recreation turned the cameras on government workers in tiny Pawnee, Indiana and introduced us to overachieving Leslie Knope (Poehler) and her team of well-meaning goofballs.
Loves: Parks and Recreation, Amy Poehler, Adam Scott, Nick Offerman.heck, pretty much the entire castĭislikes: How true the political fiascos ring, pure repackaging Treat yo self to, literally, the entire Pawnee saga
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