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Critic Reviews
May 1, 2020
Season 1 Review:
It all felt honest, made with love. There was never any sense that the actors had been away from their characters for five years, or of shoehorning old material into a weirdly shaped new box. It was pure Leslie Knope, addressing the real emergency by raising money, addressing the series by staying true to its spirit, and addressing the audience as part of the community.
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May 1, 2020
Season 1 Review:
It was everything fans of the sweet, hopeful and hilarious series could have hoped for in this time of great need. ... The special captured the essence of the series and the mood of the current crisis perfectly, as the actors easily slipped back into old characters and offered each other (and viewers) support during tough times.
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May 1, 2020
Season 1 Review:
The episode manages to give us just enough of what we want in the way of catchup, while managing to, with a minimum of observable effort, deliver a very Leslie Knope-esque message about what do to when things seem the bleakest. With such a breakneck pace of pop-ins and jokes, it’s hard not to spoil the enjoyment in the telling, but everybody’s doing about as you’d have expected when the show left them.
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May 1, 2020
May 1, 2020
Season 1 Review:
So is “Parks and Recreation” too light and sunny to deal with this moment? It may be the classic comedy that’s just light and sunny enough — in part because that lightness has always been grounded, however subtly, in reality. ... This made for a better kind of very special episode. “Parks” didn’t return for half an hour to tell us what to think; it helped us feel what we feel.
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May 1, 2020
Season 1 Review:
The special is a fun-with-characters piece, not quite the sitcom-Wire of yore. Still, I admire how Schur curls our pandemic reality back to the foundational Parks and Recreation saga of civil service in the face of overwhelming odds. ... A Parks and Recreation Special is a genuine return from one of the best TV series ever made. In a strange way, the sitcom’s faux-documentary structure lends itself well to the videoconferencing conceit.
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May 1, 2020
Season 1 Review:
“A Parks and Recreation Special” was not the greatest episode of Parks and Rec there’s ever been. The cast and crew are mainly apt to just play the old favorites and make you smile rather than telling a brand new story with fresh material. ... Groundbreaking or not, we need that warmth and that hope now more than ever and, with a characteristically good cause, “A Parks and Recreation Special” more than delivered.
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May 1, 2020
May 1, 2020
Season 1 Review:
In the end, despite the social distancing that the reunion had no choice but to depict, Parks is exactly as we left it five years ago: light, funny, comforting but willfully naive, and ultimately more appealing for its cast and the chemistry they’ve somehow retained than it is convincing in its worldview.
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The IndependentMay 1, 2020
Season 1 Review:
This was a special that was lightly funny, technically splendid and made for a good cause (money raised, and then matched by a number of corporate sponsors, went to Feeding America’s Covid-19 fund). It was impossible to dislike – even if it was inescapably melancholy.
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