"HOW ‘PARKS AND RECREATION’ PULLED ME BACK FROM DEPRESSION"

"Parks and Recreation is a unique kind of comedy. Yes, it’s witty and is bursting with moments of tight satire, but what makes the show sing is how upbeat it is. It’s one of the few shows for adults on television that is simultaneously intelligent and optimistic. It’s not a show about people tearing each other apart for laughs; it’s about the comedy that arises when people with different philosophies try to come to together to build something greater than themselves...

Parks and Recreation is a comedy about love, which in a way, makes it the edgiest, bravest, and most rebellious comedy that I know. It’s easier to tear something down than to build something new."
http://decider.com/2015/04/09/parks-and-recreation-saved-me-from-depression/?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=DeciderFacebook&utm_medium=SocialFlow

That's true. There is something deeply vulnerable about the show, it was very 'come as you are'. I mean, it was a show that was set in a small town in Indiana that had a main character who was Indian because of course there can be an Indian guy and of course he's a full and complicated person with agency and with flaws.

It's like, no one was characterized to be a joke (well, for the most part), everyone was a genuinely full thing and the audience was expected to be there for that. It was a good model of a world I'd like to live in.