Some of them work, some of them don't but I did struggle with the feeling of them being marketing-led rather than being really part of the show or episode. On the way it tries quite a few things that I didn't care for, in particular the frequent famous faces showing up as guests.
This isn't to say that the first half of the season isn't fun too, but it really did seem to get going better in the second half. Jokes were funnier and hit more frequently characters worked better and/or were made better use of and the cast generally seemed to respond to the material with good delivery and timing. I'm not sure why, but moving into the second half of the season things started to get tighter. The show is funny but in the first half of the season it is sporadically funny and amusing for the rest of the time and some of the material felt a little forced or the characters unnatural.
We retain the same characters and we have some of the same running plots even though we get more into a distinct story- per-week flow which suits the sitcom better. The second season did feel like a massive jump away from that for the most part. When I watched the first season of Parks and Recreation it did not really wow me so much as show potential that it wasn't really fulfilling.
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