EPISODE
SEASON
This season Indiana's most enthusiastic public servant starts out trying to help her town, meanwhile Leslie Knope transforms from a hopelessly ineffective bureaucrat to an inspirational force for good
16 September 1963, Albany, New York, USA
2 January 1975, Milford, Michigan, USA
31 August 1977, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
7 January 1957, New York, USA
21 June 1972, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
4 June 1972, Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany
15 June 1981, Miami, Florida, USA
2 February 1935, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
21 January 1963, Leverkusen, Germany
25 October 1991, Austin, Texas, USA
September 17, 2009
This show will have to come a long way to make me able to watch it.
September 17, 2009
Like a small miracle of second-act redemption, it comes back as a fully realized and very funny sitcom.
September 17, 2009
For starters, it's flat, forced and messagey.
September 17, 2009
Parks & Rec is really living up to its potential now. I told you so.
September 17, 2009
Parks was disappointing in its first year but tonight's episode and one airing next week--with a storyline inspired by the Henry Louis Gates-cop kerfluffle--show that the program is making steady, funny progress.
September 17, 2009
Poehler and the writers have finetuned Leslie's character to be more sharp-tongued, less clueless, and more fearless.

