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'Parks and Recreation' appreciation, dammit!

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Now that Bollywood week has seemed to come to an end (thanks Al and AWM for being you which is beautiful) I have decided to post about my obsession of the moment. See:   Parks and Recreation. The first few times I caught this show, I didn't get it. I was like "this is like the Office  but in bumfuck no where Indiana." I was sort of bored. This was a while ago. 2009? 2010? Flash forward to this year. I finally got around to watching a real episode; not just bits and pieces of one while I was out doing other things. And I was like HOLY SHIT THIS IS A VERY GOOD SHOW. Why? the writing is superb. Now I love 30 Rock  very much as well and will be a lifelong Fey diehard fan, but the writing of this show has started to eclipse the other NBC shining beacon for me. You can tell in the beginning that the writing wasn't exactly on cue. But by midway second season, the writers were finally hitting their mark. I mean, nailing their mark. Like in a Seinfeld/Frasier/good O...