Parks and Recreation: Season 7
Parks and Recreation: Season 7. Created by Greg Daniels and Michael Schur. Deedle-Dee Productions, Fremulon, 3 Arts Entertainment, Universal Television, 2015. Full IMDb entry here.[1] Wikipedia entry with links to full episode list here.[2]
Mainly mundane situation comedy, but in its final season with SF aspects discussed by Chris Pak in SFRA Review #314 (Winter 2015 [sic]): pp. 44-45.[3]
The most salient examples of the science-fictional elements that Parks and Recreation uses in this near future are ushered in by the tech-company Gryzzl. This analogue for the start-up companies of Silicon Valley [...] brings a flood of technological services and innovations, from free internet [...] to advanced phones and tablets that resemble the glass-based technologies imagined by the Corning company (and which humorously double as mini-skateboards), and delivery drones that closely resemble Amazon’s proposed drone service.
These overt technological innovations clearly signal a science-fictional futurity. Especially sinister is one scene in which [...] the series’ main character and a bureaucrat at the Department of Parks and Recreation, learns from the vice-president of Gryzzl [...] that the company is monitoring the town’s population through their phones, tablets and internet activity.
So see for motif of surveillance, comparing and contrasting such works as THE CIRCLE (film) and the general idea of our living in a science-fictional world now (and back in 2015), one permeated by high-tech.
RDE, finishing, 10Aug21