51�Թ�

That’s nowhere more obvious than in her “Rec Room.”

"Parks and Rec loved to kind of reckon with the fact that despite the very good intentioned and warm-hearted, generous public servant that was Leslie Knope, and the folks who worked for the city, that the city still existed on indigenous land, and therefore had to account for those violences and that history," Prof Sheppard told the BBC.

A couple of months after his emotional interview at the Rec, the England prop was on the touchline once again.

He fondly remembers “every rec center function playing, live board recordings on CD-Rs of backyard and junkyard bands.”

Aside from Del Toro’s “Pan’s Labyrinth” and “The Devil’s Backbone,” Ezban also cites as key references the Austrian psychological horror flick “Goodnight Mommy,” as well as George A. Romero’s “Day of the Dead” and the Spanish found-footage zombie saga “Rec.”