Amy Poehler may be the most-liked woman in Hollywood. Her latest project, the mega-popular podcast “Good Hang with Amy Poehler,” certainly encourages that impression. It’s perhaps her biggest platform since the hit series “Parks and Recreation,” in which she played the idealistic bureaucrat Leslie Knope, went off the air a decade ago. And while many of her former co-stars have branched out into new territory— Aziz Ansari by reinventing himself as a melancholy romantic in “Master of None,” Adam Scott by proving his dramatic chops as a man at war with himself in “Severance”—Poehler has leaned into Leslie’s vibes: sunniness, earnestness, a focus on female friendship and uncomplicated feminist values. Those qualities are amply evident in “Good Hang,” which launched in March and shot to the
The Safe Space of “Good Hang with Amy Poehler”

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