Parks and Recreation (2009)

The friendliest show here, and still a sharp satire of local government. Amy Poehler's Leslie Knope is a relentlessly optimistic mid-level bureaucrat in Pawnee, Indiana, whose boss, Nick Offerman's Ron Swanson, is an anti-government libertarian working inside the government. The town hall meetings are the best political comedy on network TV: the writers noticed that public hearings draw mainly the people who object, and built a gallery of furious residents around it. Skip ahead if season one drags, since its mixed reviews gave way to widely acclaimed later seasons. Seven seasons aired on NBC from 2009 to 2015, and it won a Peabody Award.