I watched "The Voice" for the first time—the last fifteen minutes as I waited for the P & R finale. Is NBC trying to make "turning four chairs around" the next big catchphrase or something?

For some strange reason, I was kind of touched to learn that Brandi Maxxxx became the head of the Pawnee City Council. (I also laughed at that reveal for probably five minutes.)

I need HBO like a fish needs a bicycle.

Rats—I was hoping for a spellbinding round of "Why did this get a(n) [insert letter grade] when [insert title] only got a(n) [insert letter grade]?"

I hate to nitpick, but since Ron's family enabled much of his character growth, his sudden non-acknowledgement of them seems regressive. I understand from the writing/producing perspective why the availability of Lucy Lawless dictates this, but as a viewer, it is still difficult to overlook.

I like that Leslie tended to clash, not so much with the personalities of Pawnee, as with the institutions of Pawnee. To me, it made the conflict more accessible than merely creating a villain with the intention of having a go-to character who will attempt to thwart Leslie for the sake of thwarting Leslie (this, as…

I also love that they're unbleeped.

Now I feel bad—I have tended to beat up on Ms. Hill's article from last spring on these boards, although I did so primarily because the degree to which P & R managed to subvert viewer expectations during the season finale last season was arguably unprecedented in TV sitcom history. By beating up on the article, I was…

I also tend to speculate the lessons learned during the final 3-4 seasons of "The Office" have been applied to "Parks And Recreation".

Another underrated S2 episode was the first "Galentine's Day", which had many wonderful moments, but I particularly liked the scene where Leslie and Ron discussed Justin, Leslie's then-boyfriend. Ron's analysis of him—"He's a tourist" sums up Leslie and her relationship with Pawnee as well as any moment in the show.

I agree—by watching the episodes in sequence, particularly in sequence, the full-season arc is much more apparent, taking Leslie from the recall election, back to the parks department, through the Pawnee-Eagleton merger and ultimately to the job with the national parks service. None of this was as apparent when NBC…

Let the record reflect that during the talent portion of the Miss Pawnee pageant, April performed her impression of her sister Natalie.

I find the series to be much more enjoyable when binge-viewed; watching parceled-out episodes weeks and sometimes months apart became particularly excruciating during the later seasons—Ann's pregnancy seemed to take twice as long as real-time pregnancies.

I've said it before and I'll say it again—while I can understand why, with the evolution of the Leslie Knope characterization, the character of her cynical, powerful mother (played by Pamela Reed) became a less necessary counterpoint, but I still question why their relationship was dropped completely—unless Reed…

I like to refer to this phenomenon as the "Chuck Cunninghamming" of a character, although I may well someday call it "Brendanawiczation".

No "Lil' Sebastian"? No "Moving Up"? No "Harvest Festival"? No "Halloween Surprise"? Oh well…to each his/her own.

I didn't have any real problem with the final season of "The Office", but it did seem to really have only two goals in mind—to undo Season 8 and to wrap up the series. I'm starting to think that maybe the end of "Parks And Recreation" may be a blessing, in that "The Office" had reached the point where they just didn't…

The Jerry bashing is an example of an idea where I think I needed to have more faith in the writers—to a certain extent, it had stopped making me laugh for no better reason than it didn't reflect well on all of the other characters. I'm now choosing to believe that the writers always had this endgame—Jerry's ultimate…

I don't disagree. I guess I went into this final season with fairly low expectations. At the same time, when I binge-watched Season 6 in a couple of days when it came out on DVD back in September, I had a much greater respect for the extent to which it did have an overall arc that simply wasn't particularly apparent…

But if your survival was at stake, your best bet would have been changing the channel, or pulling the plug, not hitting the fast-forward button…