Soon, he’ll be able to move down his number of sessions as he makes more progress, and I look forward to seeing what Chris is like when he moves past this. And while it’s simple to say that his 15 therapy sessions a week worked, it’s a much bigger thing to see in action. This begins with the small stuff, aging and eating food with fat in it, and leads up to the return of his ex-girlfriend, Jerry’s daughter. Inside, though, we had Chris facing a real gauntlet with Jerry’s family. Probably the funniest part of the episode was about Tom, April and Andy watching Jerry’s party, but it was the smallest story (though still important). This episode split the cast in two halves and then within them gave each two sub-stories. But with “Ron and Diane,” we see that progress is possible even for the most neurotic of the show’s characters. Part of why Chris Traeger’s character has at times been the least interesting one on the show has been because he was one-note, and his growth was moving too slowly, causing repetition. A much lazier show sets up that Jerry fails at everything at work and uses that as a baseline for many episodes, but once Parks has that established, it’s a joke but it can’t be the storyline. While It’s important to the show thematically, it’s also that this is why its repertory cast works so well. I’ve written a lot lately about progress in Pawnee, but it’s been because right now, even more than usual, it’s one of the main focuses for Parks and Recreation.
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