Watch Die Hard-Inspired Community Season Four Trailer
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Found in: TV, NewsJoel McHale Joins Sons of Anarchy
Before heading back to Greendale this fall, Community’s Joel McHale will play a con man in the fifth season of the biker drama Sons of Anarchy. While the details are still hazy, we do know that McHale’s character, named Warren, will cross paths with Sons matriarch Katey Sagal during his multi-episode arc.... read more
Found in: TV, NewsDan Harmon Absent as Community Wins Big at Critics' Choice Awards
Former Community showrunner Dan Harmon was notably absent at last night’s Critics’ Choice Awards as the show won Best Comedy Series.... read more
Found in: TV, NewsWatch Joel McHale Parody the Prometheus Viral Video
It’s hard to forget Michael Fassbender’s plastic-y hair or single tear in the Prometheus viral video, but Joel McHale can help. The Community star and E!’s The Soup host plays a robotic show host in this hilarious spoof. Robotic Joel can do anything, including play Hungry Hungry Hippos by himself, but not before his morning scotch.... read more
Found in: Blogs, Awesome of the DayCommunity: "Digital Estate Planning/The First Chang Dynasty/Introduction to Finality" (3.20-22)
This week’s strange non-marathon (seriously, NBC?) of Community episodes that finished off the third season managed to do everything right and finished things off with a bang. In fact, I have to admit from the beginning that I was dead wrong about the season’s direction. I’ve been predicting here for some time that the Chang plot, which was frequently strange and led to middling material during its development, would end poorly and that the air conditioning school story would do likewise. However, they were both truly great, so much so that they overshadowed the show’s video game episode “Digital Estate... read more
Found in: TV, ReviewsCommunity: "Curriculum Unavailable" (3.19)
“Paradigms of Human Memory,” Community‘s flashback episode that never went back to anything the audience had seen before, was one of the best parts of last season. It was a concept episode that felt perfect in its execution: the idea that while the show only has so many weeks of episodes, the characters still have the same wacky adventures together while we’re not watching. It allowed the audience to fill in the blanks of several plotlines themselves and fired off a barrage of one-liners as fast as the cast could spew them.... read more
Found in: TV, ReviewsCommunity: "Virtual Systems Analysis" (3.16)
Since its first appearance, the dreamatorium—which may seem like a fixture of the show at this point, but actually just arrived nine episodes ago—has functioned as a way of compartmentalizing Abed’s strangeness. It allows Community to have fun with his pop culture obsession without having it take over the entire show as often, but it’s also a metaphor for what the show frequently wants us to think about Abed: an open space that can imagine anything but requires input from the outside. He’s a character who supposedly lacks the sort of inner life that’s found in other humans, and “Virtual... read more
Found in: TV, ReviewsCommunity: "Origins of Vampire Mythology" (3.15)
After a large-scale theme episode like “Pillows and Blankets,” it’s nice to have a little bit of breathing room with a more normal week from Community (especially when there’s another one just waiting in the wings). But the show’s third season has hardly stepped into a classroom and has become less about what a group of Greendale students do when they see each other for class than what a group of friends does after class is over. It shouldn’t be a surprise that the default location for where the “study group” hangs out has gradually changed from an in-school location... read more
Found in: TV, ReviewsCommunity Review: "Pillows and Blankets" (3.14)
It’s not a given that Community‘s theme episodes will be its best ones, that they’ll consistently be television events that everyone’s talking about. But it certainly seems that way, and “Pillows and Blankets” was the most creative one the show’s done since last year’s fake clip show, “Paradigms of Human Memory.” It doesn’t take too big of a stretch to think of turning a sitcom into a western or military show once you establish that you want to regularly parody genres, but a PBS-style documentary is something so far from the show’s original content that it takes things an extra... read more
Found in: TV, ReviewsCommunity Review: "Digital Exploration of Interior Design" (3.13)
While last week’s episode of Community was the type of densely pop-culture-based humor that the show’s derided for, this week’s was in a lot of ways much less accessible despite being one of the most traditionally structured the show’s ever done. “Digital Exploration of Interior Design” had three tight, self-contained plots, each of them based upon issues in the show’s continuity. “Contemporary Impressionists” had a lot about the need for change within the group dynamics, but here we see it on-screen, and this is the result, with many characters actively working through problems previously set up.... read more
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