Our American cousins have finally
gotten the hang of British humour with the darkly dry, ‘Parks and
Rec’,
Amy Poehler (Saturday Night Live) stars
as a mid-level local government official in the parks division in
this mockumentary style comedy, taking heavily after our beloved The
Office. Her slap-dash team’s avant garde
approach to public engagement and bureaucracy is ashamedly hilarious,
putting it at the forefront of the US’s comedy exports.
The show is in fact created by the guys
behind the razor-edged writing on the American Office, The Simpsons
and Saturday Night Live.
Despite a sticky critical reception
early on, Parks and Rec has just been renewed for its sixth season,
so there’s plenty more where this uncomfortably jarring comedy came
from.
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