Community

From Emmy Award-winning directors Joe and Anthony Russo (Arrested Development) comes Community, a smart comedy series about higher education -- and lower expectations. The student body at Greendale Community College is made up of high-school losers, newly divorced housewives, and old people who want to keep their minds active. Within these not-so-hallowed halls, Community focuses on a band of misfits, at the center of which is a fast-talkin' lawyer whose degree has been revoked (Joel McHale), who form a study group and end up learning a lot more about themselves than they do about their course work.

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1x01 Pilot

aired Sep 18, 2009

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HansPB (Mar 27, 2012)

(First of all, sorry for the double post.)

@Jos It does feel different, yes. But it's still fun and it's still Community. Sometimes things get a little too crazy if you ask me (although actually I'm quite ok with those thought bubbles, as long as it's a one-time thing), but other than that, I don't really mind the change. There are tv shows where everything more or less stays the same during the entire run, such as Futurama, and, I assume, That '70s Show and Spin City (you know those series better than I do), where you can watch a random episode and you wouldn't know what season it's from unless you like.. know these things. With Community it's different and I believe the creators have set out to make each season a whole new experience. A separate work of art, if you will.

Laki (Mar 27, 2012)

@Jos I'm not entirely sure what you mean, as regards characters and story the latest episodes didn't feel off to me, though 2x11 and 2x12 were both directed by the same guy, who may have contributed to the different visual gags and mildly different humor, etc.

Also the creator has stated multiple times that the third season was supposed to be the darkest and the fourth one (if it ever happens) should be about "rising from ashes" and it should be the "Spring" season after the dark "Winter" one ("If years were seasons, this December would be the December of our December" -3x10).

So all the character meltdowns, fighting, Chang's power hunger and other seemingly depressing elements are all parts of a bigger picture.

But maybe I just want to believe all that stuff so much that I'm just excusing the problems the show may truly face.

Jos (Mar 26, 2012)

Does anyone else think the show feels a lot different from what it used to be? At the start of season 3 I was mildly let down by the series, but it was still subpar Community I was watching. Now it feels like I'm watching an entirely different show alltogether.