Got the dean’s best intro still though : https://youtu.be/qvzE64A28NI
God damn, I loved that show for the first 3.5 seasons.
I think P&R was a legitimately good show early on. The whole premise was that government is dysfunctional because of the contradictions in capitalism. A department dedicated to removing blight and creating parks cannot do the thing it is designed to do thanks to all the economic headwinds, the ideological poison, and the upper class apathy dragging it down. And the first season functionally concluded with a call to popular direct action.
Had they run with that, rather than turning it into a big pile of tropes, maybe it also could have made it a full 3.5 season before going sour.
God damn, I loved that show for the first 3.5 seasons.
I think P&R was a legitimately good show early on. The whole premise was that government is dysfunctional because of the contradictions in capitalism. A department dedicated to removing blight and creating parks cannot do the thing it is designed to do thanks to all the economic headwinds, the ideological poison, and the upper class apathy dragging it down. And the first season functionally concluded with a call to popular direct action.
Had they run with that, rather than turning it into a big pile of tropes, maybe it also could have made it a full 3.5 season before going sour.
That raps actually a season 5 bit, which holds up. 4 and 6 kinda blow though