Parks and Recreation (2009)
In an attempt to beautify her town — and advance her career — Leslie Knope, a mid-level bureaucrat in the Parks and Recreation Department of Pawnee, Indiana, takes on bureaucrats, cranky neighbors, and single-issue fanatics whose weapons are lawsuits, the jumble of city codes, and the democratic process she loves so much.
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What critics compared Parks and Recreation to
…a mix between Leslie Knope and Courage the Cowardly Dog…
Dippold worked as producer and writer on Parks and Recreation, a sitcom defined by its cast chemistry and sense of found family.
The series creator, Katie Dippold, actually wrote the pilot for Widow’s Bay nearly 20 years ago as a spec script to land a gig on Parks and Recreation, where she ended up writing for over 30 episodes.
Widow’s Bay is good. Very, very good in a way that few shows that dip into horror are ever able to accomplish. That’s partly due to strong writing, led by creator Katie Dippold, a Parks and Recreation writer who also penned the two best Melissa McCarthy movies (Heat, Spy), as well as the woman-led Ghostbusters reboot and, ok, fine, a misfired Haunted Mansion movie for Disney.
That Katie Dippold (Parks and Recreation, The Heat) can make you laugh and gasp in the same episode is “proof of its excellence.”
But creator Katie Dippold – who has previously written The Heat and Parks and Recreation – gives it a brilliantly fresh spin…