Corporate culture. Fears of socialism. The evils of public libraries. This is the stuff of Eyewitness News “fear alerts”... and apparently Season 2 Parks + Rec. While Community has gained a reputation for edginess1, P + R has mostly defied the expectation that it would be a heavily satiric show. Sure many of the civil service workers shown are apathetic or borderline-anarchist, but that makes Parks more of a response to the TV idealism of The West Wing than it is to the real world. And as a lead Leslie is a government figure who I
Tonight, however, our show took a standard from the West Wing playbook- focusing on a single political issue and unpacking it- and didn't really trouble themselves to be evenhanded about it.
“Sweetums”, Inc. is a (wonderfully) anachronistic Pawnee institution attempting to segue into our health-concerned age by sugar-coating2 the truth about its products. As part of that effort, they decide
Episode Grade:
Standout Character: Tom Haverford
Standout Moment: *loudspeaker voice* "DJ Roomba- tearing it up!!!", Tom
Footnotes
1. Probably because it points out that community colleges aren't the bastions of enlightenment we think they are? Or because sometimes it 70's TV (MASH and Beastmaster) a hard time?
2. That just happened.
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