According to The A.V. Club, Parks and Recreation’s “The Practice Date” is one of the decade’s best TV episodes!
The episode, which originally aired on October 8, 2009, was written by Harris Wittels (@wittels) and was directed by Alex Hardcastle.
Congratulations!
From The A.V. Club’s Todd VanDerWerff:
It took a while for Parks And Recreation to find its feet. In the first season, the writers didn’t give a sense that they knew how to write for all of the characters, and the situations often felt forced. Between season one and season two, all involved developed a better sense of how to make the show work, mainly by changing it from a broad sitcom about small-town government into a specific satire of the kinds of people who make public service their life. This episode follows the lonely Leslie Knope (Amy Poehler) as she tries to psych herself up for a date with a similarly lonely cop, and ends up making everyone around her more and more uncomfortable.
Thanks for the tip, Kevin!
Link: The best TV episodes of the decade (from shows not on any of our other lists)
