She loves Pawnee, despite the fact that Pawnee is literally punching her in the face. The Leslie that we know and adore is ambitious, hungry, and gutsy. (Conveniently enough, the gears of government grind so slowly that Leslie can just take almost all the time she wants to decide.)īut … but … who exactly does Leslie think is coming out of Ron’s impeccable woodwork to replace her? Clearly she’s going to hand the keys of the Parks Department over to some promising young underling ( cough, cough, April, cough) sooner or later, and the show isn’t really convincing me that there’s a reason to make this “later” other than the obvious, external reality of Parks, which is that they have the rest of this season plus another season to fill, and they can’t fill it in Chicago. “You know it’s an uphill battle, but you love the struggle.” And this is apparently reason enough to convince Leslie to turn down this amazing job with the National Park Service (!!!) in Chicago (more !!!) so she can make sure that Pawnee is in capable hands. “You like fixing this town, you always have,” he tells her. As always, Ron’s moment with Leslie warmed my heart like a newly rewired radiator, but for the first time in forever, I didn’t really agree with the gist of what he said. An offer she cannot accept, because Pawnee. Leslie is crushed but hilarious: “Thank you for coming by and plunging a dagger into my already bleeding corpse.” But then Grant reveals himself as someone who already knows who Leslie is because HE READ HER BINDER! He declares it the most thoroughly researched grant proposal he’d ever seen! And then he offers Leslie this awesome job, running a branch of the National Park Service. Grant tells Leslie he can’t help her make Eagleton Hills a national park. Her efforts at smoothing things over do not go smoothly. Everyone thinks Leslie pulled some Clooney-worthy prank. It’s a huge day for her it might be the first day she actually crowd-surfs! (Empty your pockets, just in case.) But then it turns out the wall was filled with bees, stinging many an Eagletonian and, as far as Pawneeans go, sparing almost everyone but (ugh) Councilman Jamm. She also has the inspired idea to tear down this wall separating Pawnee and Eagleton, so that their merger (which so far is not going well) can be more, you know, merged. Leslie is ahead of schedule - banner unfurling! - on the Unity Concert, which marks the 100th time Leslie has been ahead of schedule - second banner unfurling! - in her Parks career. Now, he’s not the bad boy as that guy from the Department of the Interior, but he’s still a pretty big deal. So that binder Leslie turned in during her trip to Washington, the one she assumed would be lost among the stacks of nearly identical binders, a symbol of her disillusionment at our nation’s capital? It’s back! You know who read it? Grant Larson, director of the Midwest branch of the National Park Service. This episode started off with one of my all-time favorite things: plot continuity! Sure, I know that’s not the most glamorous, edgiest thing to adore, but I’ve come to appreciate these little gestures that show the people making television will reward us for paying ridiculously close attention.
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