One of the darkest, funniest running jokes onParks & Recreationinvolved thewildly offensive muralsat Pawnee City Hall.
Nathan Rutherford (Ed Helms) loves his hometown of Rutherford Falls to an almost pathological degree.
(Sadly, most people mistake it for the gift shop.)
Ed Helms, Dana L. Wilson, and Jana Schmieding in ‘Rutherford Falls’.Colleen Hayes/Peacock
It’s only when a dustup over moving a statue of Lawrence Rutherford (a.k.a.
It’s not as if people haven’t tried to point these things out to him before.
“But you never even mention that.”
Michael Greyeyes in ‘Rutherford Falls’.Colleen Hayes/Peacock
(To be fair, Nathan holds only an “honorary, non-voting” seat on the Rutherford Inc. Peacock made four ofRutherford’s 10 episodes available for review, and wouldn’t you know it?
Episode four is incredible fresh and vibrant and urgently original.
It’s also not really about Nathan.
The pause before Terry answers is small but heavy, weighted with a generation’s worth of disciplined resignation.
“I drive a car, I have a microwave,” he replies with a tight smile.
“And I’m somehow able to live with myself and my cultural beliefs.”
And it’s possible that the remaining episodes will shift the story even more in Terry’s direction.
Sounds like at least a season’s worth of story to me.Grade: B
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