Community [US] **SPOILERS**

sydthebeat wrote: »

Watched all six seasons of this over the lockdown.

What started out as a very funny sharp character comedy ( first two seasons are great) it turned until the biggest load of crap over the last 2 seasons.... Completely jumping the shark. I've never seen a show drop so much in quality. Did the writers change? They palpably knew themselves by referring to its crapness.

The creator of the show, Dan Harmon, was fired at the end of Season 3 (I think they were running severely behind and the story started going really off the rails), and they brought in new showrunners for Season 4.

Then there were issues in Season 4 that made Chevy Chase leave during it (they filmed enough to shoehorn him into the last few episodes).

Then because Season 4 was poorly received, they rehired the original creator Dan Harmon for Season 5. But Chevy Chase would only come back for a quick appearance, and Donald Glover wanted to leave and do his own thing.

Then it was cancelled at the end of Season 5, but Yahoo picked it up and bought a final season which was aired online rather than TV, but there were more departures in the cast too.

Overall, it was a bit of a mess behind the scenes from Season 3 on. Story started going completely haywire that it damaged a lot of the characters.

That said, I actually enjoyed most of Season 5. Some fantastic episodes in it. And Season 4 had its moments even though it was mostly a failure. Season 6 was fairly abysmal though. I barely even remember anything from it bar some bits of the last episode.

Oh, hell yes.. even Glover will be back!

https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/community-table-read-dan-harmon-donald-glover-joel-mchale-1234601209/

Six seasons and a Zoom call. The cast of “Community” and creator Dan Harmon are reuniting for a virtual table read and Q&A, in order to benefit COVID-19 relief efforts.

Among the participants will be Donald Glover, who departed “Community” during its fifth season — marking the first time he’s been a part of a “Community” event since leaving the show. Stars Joel McHale, Gillian Jacobs, Danny Pudi, Yvette Nicole Brown, Alison Brie, Jim Rash, Ken Jeong and Glover are all set to join the table read, along with Harmon.

The table read will be shown in its entirety, along with a Q&A of fan questions, on Monday, May 18, at 2 p.m. PT via Sony Pictures TV’s “Community” YouTube page. The cast is set to read “Cooperative Polygraphy,” the fourth episode of Season 5, which first aired January 16, 2014 on NBC.

Shame it's not a newly written episode.. but hopefully will be good nonetheless!

ShineOn7 wrote: »

A very lazy reunion compared to Parks & Recreation

Given how dreadful the new material was in the P&R reunion, I'd have preferred a table read.

pixelburp wrote: »

Oh but you can really see how much the scripts struggled with Chase, or maybe that was projection on my part, knowing how much trouble he was for the production. Pierce felt like such a third wheel, very akin to Mark Brandanowitz from Parks & Rec season 1, albeit without the ability to jettison the character. To be devil's advocate I can see why any actor might chaff at eventually being written a full on, vindictive villain as Pierce became. Given we eventually learned Harmon himself was no Saint, you'd speculate was that Harmon himself being a dick.

Absolutely, Harmon is an arsehole. Chevy is an arsehole. They were always gonna clash.

The niceness of the rest of the cast seemed to hold that show together.

Pedro just losing it completely at the sperm bit had me in stitches, I forgot how utterly hilarious that was the first time I saw it too.

Here’s the Q&A they did after the table read, nothing concrete about a movie but it’s a good watch anyway:

Deleted User wrote: »

That was surprisingly good. No technical issues other than the Viper being muted when every is laughing but that's a feature of zoom.

I forgot the Dean wasn't in that episode at all, but good decision to have him be the one who reads the lie detector, at least it meant he could be part of the episode.

First, huge difference between painting yourself black be a dark elf and doing "black face"

Secondly....... so now we cant have JOKES about racism because they are racist?

S06:EP02
Joelho-Alto Prejuizo Moral... Hilarious

Please tell me every episode ends with these tags

I think I'm liking season 6 because I've giving it such a long break. Im not tethered to what's come before, I had no expectations., In fact, what Im watching now almost feels like a pilot which is just finding its feet and in a way, it kinda was. Losing almost half of your core characters in such a bottled show is basically like starting over. The Joelho-Alto Prejuizo Moral / Butcher and the Baker stuff does feel very different, but that's because it is. You can definitely see the irreverence here which makes Rick and Morty so popular.
If this was a debut show, Id all over it, praising its originality, comedy and characters.

Maybe Im taking nonsense here, but this is what I'm thinking, go watch what would be considered the best episode of something like The Big Bang Theory and imagine it without the laughing track, then compare that to the worst episode of Community Season 6, and ask yourself, what would you rather see more of.