‘Community’ 4.02 Recap: “Can It, Ham!”
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...
View Article‘Community’ 4.03 Recap: “Bow Before Thoraxis!”
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...
View Article‘Community’ 4.04 Recap: “Hogan’s Villains”
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...
View Article‘Community’ 4.05 Recap: “Softer Than Wet Cheese”
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...
View Article‘Community’ 4.06 Recap: “More Chang Than Chang at His Changiest”
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...
View Article‘Community’ 4.07 Recap: “Get Your Damn Hands Off My Let’s!”
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...
View Article‘Community’ 4.08 Recap: “I Britta’d It!”
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...
View Article‘Community’ 4.09 Recap: “Those Berries Made Us Real Talky… But Not Real...
It was bound to happen eventually. From time to time, ‘Community’ will do a show outside the norm, like the stop-motion Christmas episode, or the 8-bit episode that dealt with Pierce’s inheritance. At...
View Article‘Community’ 4.10 Recap: “No One Wants to Screw the Group”
Thursday’s episode of ‘Community’, called ‘Intro to Knots’, features Malcolm McDowell tied up in a chair for extended periods of time. Under Dan Harmon, this would have led to a smorgasbord of...
View Article‘Community’ 4.11 Recap: “And That Is What I Would Be Saying If I Gave a Crap”
I know that I may sound like a broken record at this point, but this season of ‘Community’ has consistently been at its best when it keeps things focused on the group and keeps the group at Greendale....
View Article‘Community’ 4.12 Recap: “What’s an Anarchist to Do Without Her Organization?”
The fact that this season of ‘Community’ even exists is a bit of a baffling proposition. By removing Dan Harmon, the show’s creator and driving force, NBC left the series rudderless, and this season...
View Article‘Community’ 4.13 Recap: “I Hear You’re Graduating Kiddie College”
The execs at NBC has gone off their meds. First they fire Dan Harmon, leaving him to find out about the news secondhand. Then they renew ‘Community’, but in a shortened order. They delay the start of...
View ArticleSix Seasons and a Movie After All?
Destiny calls for ‘Community’. The cult sitcom has survived perpetually terrible ratings, the firing and rehiring of the show’s creator, and now even cancelation. Against all odds, the series will...
View ArticleClassic 1980s G.I. Joe Characters Ripped Off from Movies and TV
Tonight on NBC, ‘Community’ will air a special animated episode parodying the ‘G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero’ cartoon from the 1980s. The potential for awesomeness in that is almost too much for my...
View ArticleBlu-ray Highlights: Week of September 30th, 2018 – Soldiering On
The biggest Blu-ray releases this week are a pair of sequels that nobody really asked for and probably weren’t needed. Isn’t that the case with most sequels, though? New Releases (Blu-ray) Sicario: Day...
View ArticleBlu-ray Highlights: Week of October 14th, 2018 – The Latest Buzz
It’s been a whole two months since the last Marvel superhero blockbuster hit Blu-ray. You know what that means… Here comes the next one! New Releases (Blu-ray) Ant-Man and the Wasp – Between Black...
View ArticleBlu-ray Highlights: Week of October 21st, 2018 – My My, How Can I Resist You?
Here we go again, another round of new Blu-ray releases. One will surely rake in money, money, money. As they say, the winner takes it all. That’s just the name of the game. When all is said and done,...
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