Parks and Recreation put its last show in the books last night, and while we'll try to limit the big spoilers, anyone planning to catch up with Leslie Knope later should stop reading now. Generally speaking, critics were left feeling warm and fuzzy by the finale from Amy Poehler and crew, and the show's legacy in general:
- The Office comparison: It's great Parks went out after seven seasons, "pretty close to the top of its game," writes Margaret Lyons at Vulture. If only The Office (remember that Parks began as a kind of clone of that show) had done the same. Poehler's sitcom avoided the lows to which The Office sometimes sank. "Parks might have had some narrative flabbiness in there over its run, but this last arc has been strong and, maybe more important, incredibly true to the show's best essential natures: smart and silly and gleeful."