The Political Optimism of ‘Parks and Rec’ Would Not Survive In This World

The much-beloved NBC sitcom was hailed for its rosy vision of government. Now, it returns to a world where the bad people are in charge.

Jude Ellison S. Doyle
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6 min readApr 29, 2020

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It seems ludicrous, looking back, that we ever believed life could work like Parks and Recreation. The NBC…

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Jude Ellison S. Doyle
GEN
Writer for

Author of “Trainwreck” (Melville House, ‘16) and “Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers” (Melville House, ‘19). Columns published far and wide across the Internet.