Parks and Rec or The Office?
4 min readSep 19, 2019
Are you a Michael or a Leslie?
In the series finale of NBC’s Parks and Recreation, Tom Haverford, played by Aziz Ansari, ends his story arc in exactly the way he would have wanted: reflecting on his success (after his failure, after his success, after his numerous failures) in front of a rapt audience demanding to know the secret to his cool. You see, Tom is presenting the second of his self-help books Failure…