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Posts Tagged ‘ Parks and Rec ’

The Conflicted Populism of Parks and Recreation

March 5, 2015

By Thomas West

Though widely praised for its political optimism and progressiveness, NBC's Parks and Recreation also expresses a more complex and pessimistic view about the American voting public.​
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