Yeah, I've been wondering where Parks & Rec is headed with the city council storyline, because Leslie can't win. There'll be some sort of spanner in the works, she'll make a nice speech about how much she loves Pawnee and the Parks department and her coworkers and she'll concede defeat although she's ahead in exit polls. Then the show will keep going for another four seasons, getting increasingly unfunny and tiresome and we'll all feel bad about how it used to be good. (Remember when The Office was funny?)

Or she could win! And leave the Parks dept. And the show could end on a high note. Not happening, though.

My feelings were not strong. I kept thinking, "yeah, yeah, season finales are soon." On the other hand: SEASON FINALES ARE SOON!

This was a very solid P&R, definitely the best Andy episode in a while.

There's a big article at avclub about ending TV series, and we all know about all the internet hand-wringing that occurs on the subject. http://www.avclub.com/articles/end-it-alre…

Here's my thought:

IT'S A FUCKING TV SHOW. I like the shows I like because the plots are just vehicles for gags and character development - I don't actually give two shits where the stories are going or how they all stand together as some complete artistic statement, because that's just not how TV works.

I watch until I no longer find the jokes/character interactions interesting and then I stop watching. And then at some point the show ends. And lives move on. Why are we so fucking precious about TV?