At their Television Critics Association farewell panel, the Parks and Recreation team talked about saying goodbye to Leslie Knope and friends. But despite a career that exploded in the last year or so, Chris Pratt swears an early goodbye was never in the cards for him. From Variety:
“I would never f—— leave this show. I’ve been doing this business for 15 years. I realize the things that really matter … are the relationships you have while you’re doing them. I could hope that I could have the good fortune of finding another group of people like this, but I don’t expect I ever will.”
Co-creator Mike Schur also talked about the pressures to create a great finale.
“I tried not to care about finales that I thought of as great or finales that I thought of as terrible,” he said. “It’s less a question of guessing what an audience is going to like and more trying to honor the show and its characters and the plotline. Let the chips fall where they may.”
A great finale shouldn’t be too out of the question, since we know there will be tons of Easter eggs and returning characters when the show ends on Feb. 24.
(Via Variety)
