Midway through its fifth year, it’s at, or maybe even past, the point when most shows peak and begin their slow decline towards obsolescence – the last great season of The Office was its fifth, for instance. Parks and Recreation is not a young show any more. Do you keep trying harder and harder to rekindle that initial passion until you can’t stand each other anymore? Do you slip into bored routine and eventually drift apart? Or do you take comfort in the familiarity, building something warm and stable and long-lasting? Loving a show is a lot like loving a person: the initial infatuation inevitably wears off, the honeymoon glow fades, and you stop being able to truly surprise one another, because you already know each other as well as two people can. After a certain point, any show has said and done just about everything it can and the creators have to handle the fact that what was once fresh and new is now familiar. One of the hardest things for a show to do is deal with its own middle age. Yes, Leslie, you are the complete package.
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