As this season has made abundantly clear, the current writers of ‘Community’ are at their best when they focus on Greendale. Thursday’s episode, ‘Herstory of Dance’, proves that assertion ably. It also puts the absurdity on the ba...
It’s been a long, timey-wimey road, but here we are. After dying twice, Clara Oswald has finally come to stay. Perhaps because of how complicated a path this storyline has taken, show-runner Steven Moffat kept Saturday’s ‘Doctor W...
Oh, hi there. Remember these guys? It’s the gang over at ‘Happy Endings’, returning after months of radio (and more importantly, television) silence. I don’t know who’s in charge of scheduling at ABC, but they should be fired. Kee...
While it’s not the greatest film ever made, ‘The Matrix‘ felt like a genuinely new and exciting IP when it first appeared in 1999. I can remember seeing it in the theater, not knowing much more than the central question: “What is ...
This season, the ‘Community’ writers have played me like a harp. Just when it seems like they’ve devolved into complete self-parody, they rebound with an episode that reminds me why I started watching the show in the first place. ...
As far as I’m concerned, the worst thing to ever happen to ‘Community’ – worse than Dan Harmon being fired, worse than this season being delayed for months – is Chang. Ken Jeong’s homunculus of a character began the series as an o...
I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving! Oh wait, it’s March. Yes, the broadcast delay for this season of ‘Community’ strikes with a vengeance in last week’s Thanksgiving-themed episode, ‘Cooperative Escapism in Familial Relations...
After several episodes that took the study group out of their normal environment, last week’s episode of ‘Community’ brings everyone back home to Greendale. And it really seems like everyone. All manner of characters make an appea...
I’m an unabashed ‘Doctor Who‘ fanboy (complete with TARDIS logo tattoo and way more action figures than is healthy for an adult human being), so I’ve always appreciated the “Inspector Spacetime” parody on ‘Community’. Imagine my f...
Now this is more like it. After last week’s disappointing premiere, ‘Community’ rebounded with a quite solid Halloween episode. Of course, it’s nowhere near Halloween, but that’s what we get when NBC delays the start of the season...
Any producer will tell you that it’s hard to catch lightning in a bottle, and even harder still to predict what will make it big or what will flop hard. That’s why you hear stories about Decca rejecting the Beatles, or Sean Conner...
It’s finally here, the season that almost wasn’t. After three excellent but ratings-underperforming seasons, NBC unceremoniously sacked ‘Community’ creator and show runner Dan Harmon. Many assumed that this meant the end of the sh...
