3 years ago
Over the past few years, Live Action Role Playing, just like Cosplay, has gained more popularity and isn’t quite the niche activity it once was. This may well explain the …
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As of Friday afternoon, this episode went from part of a fait accompli to perhaps the first step in Community‘s rehabilitation. Hopefully.
Because, even though “Advanced Introduction to Finality,” like …
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Ironic, I guess, that an episode set mostly in the past just didn’t have time on its side.
In “Heroic Origins,” writers Steve Basilone, Maggie Bandur and Annie Mebane, fittingly, …
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The way “Basic Human Anatomy” turned out, one has to ask: Can Jim Rash write more episodes of Community, please?
In his first go-round for the show, the Academy Award-winner …
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If you’re going to have a trifle of a story, it’s a smart move to have Malcolm McDowell handle most of whatever lifting there is to be done.
The return …
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What often made Community’s “gimmick” episodes work was the show would sneak strong enough stories to not only justify the themes, but give them more to work with. “Intro to …
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“Herstory of Dance” is an odd duck of an episode. It’s basically a well-executed bad story.
At least, that’s what comes out if you stop and think about it. Because …
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Somewhat improbably, this ended up being the show’s most consistent episode of the season so far, as a different mix of the show’s usual elements produces a three-pronged college movie …
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For the first time in the post-Harmon era, Community attempted to resurrect maybe its more overlooked strength: the ability, from time to time, to really get at the emotional core …
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Last time, we praised series creator Dan Harmon for clearing up some of Community’s plot points in a reasonable amount of time. This week, however, writer Ben Wexler seems to …
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5 years ago
What could have been Abed’s nadir instead blossomed into the best episode of the season, thanks to a valedictory turn of sorts from the show’s creator.
This week, at least, …
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Cast members from NBC’s “Community.” Image via NBC/TV Overmind
The news here isn’t good at all.
Ratings for “Paranormal Parentage,” a Halloween episode shoehorned into a Valentine’s Day slot, were 42 percent lower than the show’s Feb. 7 premiere. And the scuttlebutt among advance reviewers is that the Feb. 21 episode “Conventions of Space and Time,” is a creative low point for the series.
Which is saying something, given how “Parentage” turned out.
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