Buy Or Don’t Buy

BODB, being cutting edge as usual, posted a Buy about Parks and Recreation before it was even titled. I have to disagree.

Tonight, I watched an episode of this Amy Poehler-starring, Office writer-written show. And I was unimpressed. Poehler’s character of Lindsey was practically Michael Scott in a skirt. She leads a team of unenthused workers with an upbeat and overly excited energy. She tries to do the right thing, but those efforts always fall flat after either saying something wrong or falling down a hill.

I mean seriously! The Office is all about selling paper. Parks and Recreation is about selling the idea of planting trees in a park like formation. The similarities pretty much hit you in the face. Remember when the Office had hour long episodes and it didn’t work out, so they went back to the half hour format? Well, with this line up, it’s the same issue again, too much of the same.

Now, if you think I am being too hard on the show after only seeing one episode, and it airing only two episodes so far, well that may be. But I had only 4 expectations:

• It’s not the Office
• Amy Poehler
• Aziz Ansari
• Good Laughs