I’m still freaking out during lockdown, started a number of posts but not finished them.
I thought, ok let’s try a post that has zero impact on my world or anyone else’s.
Sort of blog fluff therapy, while still letting me sharpen my claws.
So our subject for today class is Community the TV series: An under appreciated masterpiece brought down by “The Man” or an ok light comedy that fell to pieces when ego and greed got n the way.
My introduction to Community initially was as a thumbnail on Netflix that just didn’t appeal. Netflix pushed and pushed but nothing it showed me caught my eye.
Finally a Google news item popped up for me with a headline along the lines of “Community fan debate continues on Netflix”. I read the article and started getting interested, turns out it was a series created by Dan Harmon (creator of Rick and Morty), it not only brought a lot of talented people together but also relaunched at least one career (Chevy Chase). The fevered fans where posting #sixseasonsandamovie and all was great until…Crash, half the cast leaves and Dan Harmon gets fired for being a creepy stalker! But still the fans root for it, it’s cancelled,then it’s back , then it’s cancelled again, then it’s back again. Oh the drama!! (Ok that’s mostly sarcasm but if I went into all the stuff that happened around the recording of this show and all the theories put forward after it then I’d be writing a book not a blog)
So I thought fine, lets watch some.
Aaannnnnd, meh…
It’s ok.
Yes there are some great comedy moments and some great emotional ones too.
And yes, the series does start falling apart when it loses half of its comedy duo mid point of season five (this is a big trigger for the über fans), but doesn’t that show there wasn’t that much to the program in the first place?
Community is fine, but that’s all it is, just fine. Does it deserve #sixseasonsandamovie ? No
Does “The adventures of Abed and Troy” deserve a movie, yes.
Not sure what I’m talking about? Go watch Community on Netflix.
-S
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