Read This: Behold, some of the week’s best writing about Parks And Recreation

Unsurprisingly, there has been a lot of great Parks And Recreation content on the Internet this week—and we’re not just talking about all the stuff we published. It’s all well worth reading, especially because you probably can’t focus on anything else today anyway.
Hitfix’s Alan Sepinwall really went for it with a whole slate of interviews and opinion pieces, including two talks with Parks co-creator Mike Schur and individual interviews with Jim “Jerry Gergich” O’Heir and Ben “Jean-Ralphio” Schwartz. His interview with Amy Poehler is especially elucidating, as she talks about how the show went from being an “Office spin-off” to essentially ruining her for all jobs in the future. Here’s a blurb from that:
Sepinwall: I spoke with Jim O’Heir the other day, and he got choked up talking about the bond you guys all had. It sounds like it was a great place to be.
Amy Poehler: It really was. It was something that nobody took for granted, and nobody thought this was going to last forever. The fact that we never knew we were coming back all the time made us feel very present in the moment. Schur and I kind of stuck to a “no assholes” policy, and it helped a lot, and that was the tone when you got on set: “Ah, these people all like each other, and everybody does their job, and nobody complains, and everybody has fun.” I was really proud that everybody would come to our set and have such a good time and feel good about it. So it was real. And those things, some of us more than others, knew that those things don’t always last forever, so we were really just enjoying the moment while you could.