TMC
07-08-2025, 01:59 AM
https://jacksonupperco.com/2025/07/08/the-five-best-parks-and-recreation-episodes-of-season-seven/
The tough thing about Parks And Rec’s shortened final season is that the show has already ended twice — spiritually with Six’s midseason loss of Ann (the personification of the premise), and then narratively at Six’s closing, which tied everything up for the main characters and felt like a textbook series finale. Given all this, plus a time jump into the future, Seven simply plays like a postscript — building to another finale that has to extra definitively provide closure, indulging a grandness that I’m afraid I don’t love as much as most fans do, for reasons I’ll get into below (related both to the two-part episode itself and the sheer law of diminishing returns inherent to Seven’s existence). But if I’m not thrilled about the finale, and I’m down on this season relative to others, I’ve still got quite a bit to celebrate.
The tough thing about Parks And Rec’s shortened final season is that the show has already ended twice — spiritually with Six’s midseason loss of Ann (the personification of the premise), and then narratively at Six’s closing, which tied everything up for the main characters and felt like a textbook series finale. Given all this, plus a time jump into the future, Seven simply plays like a postscript — building to another finale that has to extra definitively provide closure, indulging a grandness that I’m afraid I don’t love as much as most fans do, for reasons I’ll get into below (related both to the two-part episode itself and the sheer law of diminishing returns inherent to Seven’s existence). But if I’m not thrilled about the finale, and I’m down on this season relative to others, I’ve still got quite a bit to celebrate.