I think you could safely just start at the premiere of season two without missing much. Like The Office, that first season is just six subpar episodes and then it becomes something that feels like a totally different show. It’s perversely amusing to me when Ratingraph makes a season of TV look this bad.
I would have quit on it for sure if it weren’t still in the era of sitting and watching the NBC Thursday night lineup, with Parks and Rec getting that sweet lead-in spot right before The Office aired.
Agree, but it’s gonna get old fast if they don’t do something. The episodes are all extremely formulaic. It’s a good formula, but eventually it’s gonna get stale.
Yeah whenever I do a parks and rec rewatch I just start directly with season 3. I know I am missing some good moments in season 2, but season 3 is where it fully hits it stride. Probably best to start with season 2 if you are starting off new, and eventually watch season 1 as a curiousity of a show trying to find its footing.
I remember S02E16 being the episode where I felt sure that the show was going to be great (think it may have been the first time I thought, “oh shit, do I actually like Andy now?”). But yeah, for a first-timer I couldn’t suggest skipping that far either. Think there’s a lot to recommend about season two.
If you are feeling like you are not full of enough rage today, watch the Boy Scouts child abuse documentary on Netflix. I don’t have the words. And nutcases are out there running around trying to identify systemic child sexual abuse at pizza joints. It’s right there! The Boy Scouts! The Catholic Church!
The big group for my childhood in Mississippi was Royal Rangers. This was like Boy Scouts but was founded by Assemblies of God and explicitly designed to turn rangers into soldiers for Christ.
It’s hard for me to read that article. A bunch of core memories I still repress from everything I experienced or saw them do to others.
Yeah, I probably should have worded it differently; S1 of The Office surely crushes any season of, say, Two Broke Girls. Still, I struggle to recommend that any newcomer starts there. It’s relatively weak enough that I would fear a potential fan falling off. It also barely feels like canon since characters like Kevin and Kelly - and, to an extent, Michael - are just totally other people.
I think also in the context of someone going in cold, it’s fair to tell someone that they should give season one a shot, but if they don’t like it, see if the round in the season two chamber fires.
