touches them–a hug, a hand clasp, a warm pat on the shoulder.

Parks began as a much sharper-edged, satirical comedy, closer to the
spinoff of The Office it was kinda-sorta conceived as. It ended as
something much warmer, more expansive and optimistic–and, toward the

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and Recreation

That’s typical of Parks: it’s combines a sense of satire about the
larger world with unashamed positivity about the smaller individuals in
it. What makes the endings happy here is the characters’ mutual support