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Re: TV of 2014

#201 Post by lacritfan » Wed Nov 26, 2014 2:42 pm

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Re: Parks and Recreation

#203 Post by mfunk9786 » Mon Dec 01, 2014 7:40 pm

I didn't even remember that this is still on the air!

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#204 Post by swo17 » Mon Dec 01, 2014 8:28 pm

I thought it wasn't going to be back on the air again until 2024.

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Re: Parks and Recreation

#206 Post by Jeff » Tue Jan 13, 2015 10:51 pm

I'm not quite sure how I feel about the final season Parks and Rec, but there is a fun cameo for cinephiles in the first episode.

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Re: Parks and Recreation

#207 Post by wattsup32 » Thu Jan 29, 2015 7:03 am

I'm really enjoying how much fun they're having with the time jump. Describing all of the things that have happened in the intervening 3 years has been great. If you didn't laugh hard at "Jaden Smith in Hitch 2: Son of a Hitch" I feel sorry the people in your life.

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Re: Parks and Recreation

#208 Post by Gregory » Thu Jan 29, 2015 12:50 pm

Elton John will buy out Chick-Fil-A.
Biden will become one of America's most prolific poets.
The Bourne films will get a reboot starring Kevin James.

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Re: Parks and Recreation

#209 Post by Andre Jurieu » Thu Jan 29, 2015 5:45 pm

Morgan Freeman and Shailene Woodley will have a feud that's bigger than Biggie vs Tupac.

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Re: Parks and Recreation

#210 Post by Koukol » Thu Jan 29, 2015 8:54 pm

I watched this show for the first time catching the double episode the other night.
Is this season typical?
I didn't find it funny at all.

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Re: Parks and Recreation

#211 Post by Ribs » Thu Jan 29, 2015 11:43 pm

Koukol wrote:I watched this show for the first time catching the double episode the other night.
Is this season typical?
I didn't find it funny at all.
The season has been fine enough, but the last two were both pretty average episodes.

A good comparison is Futurama or The Simpsons; the show of course has it's main cast, but it's really made by the supporting details that create the world they live in. Imagine one of those shows being given a definitive final run where they felt a need to pay homage to every character that anybody might like in a satisfying way over 14 half-hours; that's what you're watching by hopping in to watch a random episode now.

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Re: Parks and Recreation

#212 Post by Koukol » Fri Jan 30, 2015 9:29 pm

Perhaps I'll get into with reruns like I did with MODERN FAMILY.

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Re: Parks and Recreation

#213 Post by Cold Bishop » Fri Jan 30, 2015 9:51 pm

Plus, it's the only season set in the future and at a higher level of government.

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Re: Parks and Recreation

#214 Post by Feiereisel » Tue Feb 17, 2015 9:17 pm

I know we're only fifteen minutes into tonight's episode (and I know the conceit isn't unique), but it's absolutely slaying me.

There are little Burt Macklins in the studio audience!

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Re: Parks and Recreation

#215 Post by Roger Ryan » Wed Feb 18, 2015 9:17 am

Feiereisel wrote:I know we're only fifteen minutes into tonight's episode (and I know the conceit isn't unique), but it's absolutely slaying me.

There are little Burt Macklins in the studio audience!
The two best episodes of this final season (we'll see if the remaining two episodes can equal or surpass them). Those commercial parodies were delightful! I'm going to miss this show along with the bygone era of top shelf network comedy.

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Re: Parks and Recreation

#216 Post by wattsup32 » Wed Feb 18, 2015 3:51 pm

A couple of those commercials were straight out of Better Off Ted, which is a welcomed tip of the hat.

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Re: Parks and Recreation

#217 Post by Gregory » Wed Feb 18, 2015 4:25 pm

When I watched that episode, one of the fake commercials was followed by a spot for "Downy Unstopables" laundry perfumes: "I want my yoga pants to smell like I sweat money." "I want to smell the way champagne tastes. I love champagne!" I couldn't believe it wasn't one of the fake ones. If any commercial ever needed Tom Haverford in it...

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Re: Parks and Recreation

#218 Post by domino harvey » Wed Feb 25, 2015 7:13 pm

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Re: Parks and Recreation

#219 Post by domino harvey » Wed Feb 25, 2015 11:54 pm

Great finale, great final season, great show. Kind of wish they had addressed one thing, even with a throwaway joke, though
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Re: Parks and Recreation

#220 Post by Perkins Cobb » Thu Feb 26, 2015 12:17 pm

You want to find out what happened to Mark Brendanawicz? Dig up Lot 48.

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Re: Parks and Recreation

#221 Post by Perkins Cobb » Thu Feb 26, 2015 12:23 pm

Seriously, though, although I feel Parks and Recreation has always been hit or miss, I've been pleased by the quantity and quality of writing that the final season (coupled with the tragic death of Harris Wittels) has produced. Every important show should enjoy the same, although it doesn't always happen. I was especially impressed with Aziz Ansari's detailed tribute to Wittels and this writer-centric oral history of the show, although much of Alan Sepinwall's coverage is also worth reading, especially the two-part Mike Schur interview, which focuses on the background characters and other minutiae around the margins of the show.

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Re: Parks and Recreation

#222 Post by Andre Jurieu » Thu Feb 26, 2015 1:05 pm

domino harvey wrote:Great finale, great final season, great show. Kind of wish they had addressed one thing, even with a throwaway joke, though
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Mark Brendanawicz
I'm glad I wasn't the only one hoping for the same and disappointed that it wasn't addressed. Of course, I'm fairly certain
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Schneider
has kept his distance from the show. In fact, he's kind of had a fairly low-profile in general over the past few years, with only a few appearances on TV and a handful of roles in independent movies. I heard he had a noteworthy performance in movie at Tribeca last year, but I'm not sure the movie ever received a release.

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Re: Parks and Recreation

#223 Post by Ribs » Thu Feb 26, 2015 2:24 pm

There's a longer cut of the finale up on Hulu and NBC's website if anyone's interested. It features two additional flash-forward segments, showing the fates of Councilman Jamm and Shauna Malwae-Tweep, as well as the occasional interspersed joke (some of which aren't edited in that well, as you can clearly tell where a few were added without alteration to the scene as broadcast).

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Re: Parks and Recreation

#224 Post by Murdoch » Thu Feb 26, 2015 3:14 pm

Andre Jurieu wrote: I'm glad I wasn't the only one hoping for the same and disappointed that it wasn't addressed. Of course, I'm fairly certain
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Schneider
has kept his distance from the show.
I read an interview with him and he said he didn't like how his character changed and wasn't interested in returning. See here

I haven't watched the finale yet but will tonight even though I've been ho-hum on this last season.

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Re: Parks and Recreation

#225 Post by Murdoch » Thu Feb 26, 2015 9:04 pm

And now having watched the finale I'm glad to say it was a great success. In a genre that's often overloaded with series stretching themselves too thin and going out on a whimper, it's nice to see a series that understands its characters and gives them a fitting conclusion. Despite the series ' last two seasons feeling a bit like extra weight on an otherwise well-crafted sitcom, the finale left me wanting to rewatch the show again (and then again and again...). I'll miss you Pawnee, even if you were overrun with fat idiots.

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