I do not say this lightly or on account of the fact that I just recently finally watched the rest of the series.  Parks and Recreation is the best show that I’ve ever watched, and is now my favorite television show of all time.

This does not mean I no longer like shows like Married… With Children, Batman the Animated Series, Dead Like Me, Breaking Bad, season 4 of Dexter, or any other show that I’ve claimed to be very favorable of at differing points of my life.  But they all fall short in comparison to Parks and Rec.  And honestly, it’s not even really a contest anymore at this point, and I’m hard pressed to believe that I’m going to actually see something I like more any time soon.

The thing is, I had this conclusion in mind after I finished the fifth season of Parks and Rec.  But I wanted to make sure that the show didn’t really end up going downhill really fast like Dexter did, and ultimately tank the series as a whole.  But I’m not surprised that it delivered all the way to the end, and I can’t say that I’ve felt so emotional watching a series wind down ever, compared to how I felt with Parks and Rec.

No matter if I was feeling down or disappointed in something going on in my life, watching Parks and Rec was an instant cure all for my gloom.  And at 22 minutes per episode, it was really easy to simply watch an episode, or binge-watch several, which the latter was mostly what I was doing on the weekends when mythical girlfriend was at work.  And now that I’m done with the series, I’m wondering what I’m going to do with my life now. 

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