Leslie's hoarding a character inconsistency?
I realize that most of the first season is kind of downplayed/retconned out when they started season 2 with a far better, more capable, less ditzy Leslie whose biggest flaw is that she can accomplish anything for Pawnee unless the townsfolk ruin it... But is her house being a complete psycho mess a major character inconsistency or what? They mention it once when she starts dating Ben, then we never see her struggle with it again. Her city council office is always immaculate. And most of all, her whole life is insanely organized, with entire binders devoted to the smallest processes. I know it's POSSIBLE that all that clutter was somehow "organized" in her mind, but it seems to go against everything else we know of Leslie. I'm thinking it was an example of a writers' room saying, "Wouldn't it be funny if..." without thinking through implications for the character.
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