After a seven-season run that saw the show creating a loyal fanbase and a lot of critical acclaim, the "Parks and Recreation" finale gives the beloved NBC show a great farewell, with characters like Leslie Knope, Ron Swanson, April Ludgate, Andy Dwyer and Tom Haverford greeting the fictional town of Pawnee, Indiana goodbye.
Running since 2009 on NBC to great ratings and critical response (even a Golden Globe Award for its star Amy Poehler in 2014, as she was hosting the awards show), it's no surprise that the "Parks and Recreation" finale set the mood straight for the farewell, as many websites are calling the show one of the best comedies in television history.
In The Daily Beast's review about the "Parks and Recreation" finale, the famous website even goes so far as to compare the series to critics' beloved show "Seinfeld," saying that, while the world keeps talking about a show about nothing, "Parks and Rec" did it the other way around, creating something out of nothing, as it followed its main premise of the parks department of a small town.
As The New York Times reports, the "Parks and Recreation" finale features a great win from one of the show's biggest losers, as Tom took every bad moment he'd ever had and turned it into a best-selling self-help book entitled "Failure: An American Success Story," where he used the personalities of his co-workers to explain a rags-to-riches story.
Other highlights of the highly anticipated "Parks and Recreation" finale include, according to The Guardian: Leslie becomes the governor of Indiana and then ultimately the US President, accompanied by her husband Ben (played by Adam Scott); April and Andy end up having two children; Donna (Retta) sells real estate in Seattle; Gerry dies happily at 100 after spending his life as the mayor of Pawnee ... and Ron Swanson gets to run a national park near Pawnee.
As Variety reports, the "Parks and Recreation" finale is a flash-forward to a few years later, co-written by star Poehler and Mike Schur, the series' mastermind.
