Rashida Jones is ‘ready any time’ for a ‘Parks and Recreation’ revival
Feb. 24 marks the 10th anniversary of the Parks and Recreation series finale, and not to make you feel even more ancient, but we’re now in yet another future timeline featured in the finale — specifically the one in which Ann (Rashida Jones) and Chris (Rob Lowe) appear. And the actress cannot believe it either.
“Wait, were we in 2025 in the end? That’s so crazy,” Jones tells Gold Derby.
Parks and Rec‘s seventh and final season, which premiered Jan. 13, 2015, was already set two years into future then, in 2017. “One Last Ride,” the one-hour finale that was written by Michael Schur and Amy Poehler and directed by Schur, contained several time jumps showing the characters’ lives deeper into the future. We’ve already passed 2019, 2022, and 2023.
In the 2025 timeline, Leslie (Poehler) and Ben (Adam Scott) return to Pawnee after they’re individually approached about running for governor of Indiana. They find the entire gang at the Parks department, including Ann and Chris, who reveal that they are moving back to Pawnee, It was Jones’ and Lowe’s first appearance since they departed the NBC comedy in Season 6.
Since the finale, Parks and Rec has been revived once for a special episode that aired in April 2020 to benefit Feeding America’s COVID-19 Response Fund. Jones says she’s “ready any time” for another revival.
“Oh man, I hope sometime soon. I know Mike Schur was like, ‘There has to be a reason for us to do it. We can’t just do it,'” she says. “But I would love that.”
And since it’s been five years since the special, the Grammy winner is on board for a reunion on a five-year cycle. That means they will eventually get to another one of the finale’s future timelines. “There you go,” she says. “We have to do the 2035 one.”