Wow, Season 7 sucked.
The dreaded "time-jump". I can't think of one show where that has ever worked out good.
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Yeah. I wish it would not have happened at all.
shareI loved Parks & Rec seasons 1 - 6 but season 7 was a bit of a train wreck. Devoting 3 or 4 episodes to the feud between Ron and Leslie hampered any chance of buying into the time-jump properly IMO.
The thing is that did not devote 3 or 4 episodes to it. It had an impact on episode 1 and 3. Episode 2 they worked together to help Jamm with Tammy 2 and Episode 4 was about the feud but it was about the resolution to it.
Episodes 2 and 4 were awesome episodes.
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I am watching the show for the first time and I immediately got the feeling that the show was supposed to end after season 6 and they got a surprise renewal. Season 7 feels alot like "we can write whatever we want"
shareThat's how I felt as well! I hated not having Rashida Jones and Rob Lowe in the last season except for that little tiny bit of the last episode. I also didn't care for the Andy Karate show episode either. Felt weird to have an episode celebrating the ending of a show that had apparently been running a few years but we'd never seen/heard him doing it
shareI thought season 7 was fine, the least of the 7 seasons, but it did not suck.
Season 7 was a given to the show so they could give each character closure. In that they did great.
The problem with Season 7 was not the time jump but the third story line that involved an election. Seasons 4 and 5 with the original election and the recall vote and now the third time with Ben running for congress. Parks and Rec worked great because of the main characters reactions to the crazy people in Pawnee but in an election that covers more than Pawnee those people are less influential on the story.