Perhaps the best episode yet and a great example of the show working with more of a confined narrative, that being the ongoing flu epidemic in Pawnee. It's interesting and fitting perhaps to watch now in the midst of the Coronavirus, particularly when Donna, Jerry and Tom quarantine themselves against Leslie's flu ridden state.
This episode simply fires on all cylinders. I absolutely love April and her petty but understandable contempt for Ann and how Ann decides to not let April get the satisfaction of having provoked her. Since the show seemed to really find April's purpose beginning with the season two episode, "Hunting Trip" (where April bonded with Andy for the first time onscreen), she's perhaps the character I most love watching in a show with many characters that I love to watch.
Speaking of a character that I love watching, this is a quintessential Leslie episode for me and one of Amy Poehler's greatest outings yet. Her performance is consistently hilarious and has such a gripping authenticity to it, how she plays the fever ridden state that Leslie finds herself in this episode. The resolution to her story is amazing and Ben's talking head that wraps up that storyline is fantastic too.
Then there's the Andy and Ron side story, where they bond during April's absence as Ron's assistant. It's such a simple storyline and one that I find utterly infectious to watch.
Then there's the highlight, or co-highlight (along with the Leslie stuff) of this episode in Chris and his 'microchip' having been compromised. Rob Lowe's finest, most outrageous and hilarious performance yet and the monologue that he gives himself in front of the mirror, "Stop. Popping", is a complete laugh riot.
Review by SLionsCricketBlockedParent2020-04-03T11:48:34Z
Perhaps the best episode yet and a great example of the show working with more of a confined narrative, that being the ongoing flu epidemic in Pawnee. It's interesting and fitting perhaps to watch now in the midst of the Coronavirus, particularly when Donna, Jerry and Tom quarantine themselves against Leslie's flu ridden state.
This episode simply fires on all cylinders. I absolutely love April and her petty but understandable contempt for Ann and how Ann decides to not let April get the satisfaction of having provoked her. Since the show seemed to really find April's purpose beginning with the season two episode, "Hunting Trip" (where April bonded with Andy for the first time onscreen), she's perhaps the character I most love watching in a show with many characters that I love to watch.
Speaking of a character that I love watching, this is a quintessential Leslie episode for me and one of Amy Poehler's greatest outings yet. Her performance is consistently hilarious and has such a gripping authenticity to it, how she plays the fever ridden state that Leslie finds herself in this episode. The resolution to her story is amazing and Ben's talking head that wraps up that storyline is fantastic too.
Then there's the Andy and Ron side story, where they bond during April's absence as Ron's assistant. It's such a simple storyline and one that I find utterly infectious to watch.
Then there's the highlight, or co-highlight (along with the Leslie stuff) of this episode in Chris and his 'microchip' having been compromised. Rob Lowe's finest, most outrageous and hilarious performance yet and the monologue that he gives himself in front of the mirror, "Stop. Popping", is a complete laugh riot.
Exceptional episode.