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Future problem solvers: How Parks And Recreation beat the odds and went out on top

What makes this season of Parks And Recreation so special is that it’s finally, brilliantly, paying off relationships and characters that have been in flux for several years. This is particularly edifying for the female characters, all of whom have grown into places of varied contentment. April Ludgate (Aubrey Plaza), buoyed by her time working under Leslie, now has enough confidence and drive to accept that she isn’t satisfied by her work. Refusing to settle, she lets herself be vulnerable enough to depend on her friends for help. Donna Meagle (Retta), long a masterful player in the dating game, finally weds Joe, a man who treasures her as the magnificently powerful woman she is. In building out her future, Donna allows herself to feel nostalgia for the people who filled her life for so long. Leslie, focused as always, seems to have taken to being a working mother. The show’s wise choice to use a three-year time jump in the season-six finale has allowed her triplets to become an amusing running joke, as opposed to a bar by which she defines herself.

Parks And Recreation has returned to form by taking the characters we love and letting them go. It’s allowed them to realize their potential and become all of the things that Leslie always knew they could be. Because of this, Leslie is again the heroine we all yearned to have in our own life, a transformation aided by a return to what she was always best at: facilitating greatness in the people, the town, and the country she loved.

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Parks and Rec turned into an amazing show and gave me some favorite characters. It will be missed.