ASeason 6Community: “Emotional Consequences Of Broadcast Television”Joshua Alston6/02/15 4:18pmEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkWill Community return for a seventh season? Maybe. Probably. Maybe.
B-Season 6Community: “Wedding Videography”Joshua Alston5/26/15 6:36pmEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkIs the Greendale Gang the best thing ever to happen to its members or the worst? The group’s collective impact, both on…
ASeason 6Community: “Modern Espionage”Joshua Alston5/19/15 2:17pmEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalink“Modern Espionage” could have been the triumph of Community’s sixth season, or its biggest letdown. Not only is…
B-Season 6Community: “Basic RV Repair And Palmistry”Joshua Alston5/12/15 6:12pmEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalink“I’m sick of it! It’s a show. It’s not a show. It’s your show. It’s my show. It’s a good show. It’s a bad show. I’m…
BSeason 6Community: “Grifting 101”Joshua Alston5/05/15 6:50pmEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkComplaining about a sitcom repeating itself, when that sitcom is in its sixth season, would be unduly harsh in the case…
C+Season 6Community: “Intro To Recycled Cinema”Joshua Alston4/28/15 5:39pmEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkTo call an episode of Community “odd” is perhaps redundant, but here we are, with “Intro To Recycled Cinema,” a…
B+Season 6Community: “Advanced Safety Features”Joshua Alston4/21/15 2:01pmEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkMy mother’s maverick taste in pop-culture is an endless source of fascination for me. Put simply, my mom likes what she…
B-Season 6Community: “Basic Email Security”Joshua Alston4/14/15 3:49pmEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkIn the final act of “Basic Email Security,” Abed identifies the episode as the culminating installment of what could be…
BSeason 6Community: “Laws Of Robotics And Party Rights”Joshua Alston4/07/15 3:14pmEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkWhen a television show switches networks, the most tempting before-and-after comparison is that of production value.…
A-Season 6Community: “Queer Studies And Advanced Waxing”Joshua Alston3/31/15 4:20pmEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkThe difficulty in evaluating a show that’s gone through as many changes as has Community is figuring out the metric by…
B+Season 6Community: “Basic Crisis Room Decorum”Joshua Alston3/24/15 2:00pmEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkCommunity is able to evolve each season and bounce back from significant cast reshuffling for the same reason the show…
Season 6Community: “Ladders”/“Lawnmower Maintenance And Postnatal Care”Joshua Alston3/17/15 12:16pmEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalink“Sometimes dead is better.” It’s no coincidence that of all the quotes tossed off by the thousands of characters in the…
As Community moves to a new home, its old one tries to revive its comic voiceErik Adams3/17/15 12:00amEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkIt hasn’t been a fruitful season for comedy on NBC. A To Z and Bad Judge met with swift cancellations, and the fates of …
BSeason 5Community: “Basic Sandwich”Todd VanDerWerff4/17/14 7:30pmEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkIf “Basic Story” edged right up to the prospect of this particular story needing to come to an end, “Basic Sandwich”…
B+Community mounted a comeback by caring for its settingErik Adams4/17/14 12:00amEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkThe tagline “a show set in a community college” runs beneath the title card of Community’s “G.I. Jeff,” and that’s an…
A-Season 5Community: “Basic Story”Todd VanDerWerff4/10/14 8:00pmEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkThe last two steps on Dan Harmon’s famous story circle are that a character returns to a familiar situation, having…
A-Season 5Community: “G.I. Jeff”Todd VanDerWerff4/03/14 9:32pmEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkI have little to no knowledge of the ‘80s G.I. Joe cartoon, both because I was slightly too young for its heyday and…
B+Season 5Community: “Advanced Advanced Dungeons & Dragons”Todd VanDerWerff3/20/14 9:02pmEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalink“Advanced Advanced Dungeons & Dragons” has a high hurdle to clear for me, in that “Advanced Dungeons & Dragons” is…
B+Season 5Community: “VCR Maintenance And Educational Publishing”Todd VanDerWerff3/13/14 8:00pmEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkI’ve always pushed back against the idea that reviews of Community should solely be about what in the episode was…
BSeason 5Community: “App Development And Condiments”Todd VanDerWerff3/06/14 8:00pmEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalink“App Development And Condiments” reminds me of one of those movies or novels that tries to be a satire of some aspect…
