Best and Worst TV of 2009: Joel’s list

I don’t think I did one of these lists last year, and I have no idea why. The election all by itself would have generated a pretty fun best/worst list. Maybe we were all suffering from information overload, and were just exhausted. Not sure.
But 2009 had a lot of interesting TV, too, just not all in one category. As I’ve done in the past, I’ll dispense with the usual “best show” and “worst show” lists and just make up categories:
GOODNESS
Best comeback from a shaky first season: Parks and Recreation. As I mentioned in my “return of the sitcom” story, Parks and Rec has made the biggest improvement from first season to second since… well, since The Office. It’s no coincidence; Greg Daniels and Mike Schur’s Office experience taught them that patience would be rewarded, both on the part of the writers and the viewers.
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