The addition of Adam Scott and Rob Lowe really was the final piece of the puzzle. How often do cast changes and additions actually *improve* a show?

Agreed...so many great episodes of the series were in season 3.  When things just clicked and you just knew everyone was having fun.

Lightning in a bottle. There will be good and great shows but Parks and Rec will never happen again. There was no real cut off point, but Season 3 is TV nirvana.  

Brendanaquits, amirite?

The episode with the skating rink is the one I keep coming back to. Both the A plot and the B plot - with Ben getting depressed and making a claymation - are perfect. “Together we can defeat obese children” might be the best line in the series. This is Parks’ version of The Office’s “Dinner Party” or 30 Rock’s “Leap…

Found Brendanawicz everybody!

She’s right

Kristen Wiig is wise and people should listen.

Denis is kind of an asshole here. Fans want to see these characters, and they were filmed so just put the scenes on bonus features like everyone else does.

Love the books. Lynch & Sci Fi Channel movies are at least fun to watch. I’m also a fan of this director, Euro Sci Fi / comics, etc. That being stated - I found part one boring. Wanted to like it but it just didn’t really work for me.

I forget who commented this, but I love it:

Yes, Moss’s take on an abusive religious cult was excellent. Why, its almost she’s a member of one in real life!

Witches be crazy.

My husband and I were both in tears, and we rewound it twice with still more tears. Really moving.

This was a great read! Please more stories like this AVClub, this was a lovely and interesting article.

Hell yeah on Amy Adams. That movie and Adams’s performance were INCREDIBLE.

This doesn’t make much sense. The point of the movie is that Ken was being overlooked.

Um, no. It’s an incredible performance both from a comedic perspective and a dramatic one, not something many could pull off and make look so effortless in the process.

“Stubbed in the toe! By a table!”

Hamm was a bit of a mustache-twirling villain in The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt!