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This guy

>Harmon
Its cancerous

There was something definately real and magic in the first 2 seasons. There was a very human development to the core cast and they all worked amazingly. Surprisingly it's also when the show is at it's most experimental and unsure, when it's trying to find itself and what it's "about" besides the already kino "weirdo outcasts become a family" premise.
By s3, be it by Harmon's arrogance or simple misjudgement, the feeling starts to become more plastic-y and less real, it seems that the people behind the scene "get" what the show is about, but they just stumble and give these meh episodes alongside some series highs. It's still fantastic, the magic is still there, but it's not what it used to be (and that's fine).
S4 starts the downfall. With the lack of Harmon, we have a show with no idea where it wants to go so it just tries to keep the status quo in the most boring way possible. You can really feel no one really knows how to do it. All the emotional beats feel like they're supposed to work, they feel like how Community is supposed to be, but it just isn't there.
Harmon's arrogance is fully on display in S5, and it all falls flat after the excellent initial string of 5 episodes. It's no surprise that when Glover leaves, it all takes a massive dip in quality. The cast was important to Community, and every member counted, from Glover to Chase to even Harmon.
In an attempt to make the show great again after a disaster season, Harmon surprisingly does the thing S4 did, "be Community", keep the status quo, and we get this weird mish-mash of concept episodes and character episodes that feel like they originated more out of the need to show the series is still good rather than pure creative spark. "Wouldn't it be so Community to do a G.I Joe episode?" came instead of "Hey, I got an idea for a G.I Joe episode".
The finale is the culmination of all of this, it's a funny-passionate-meta-parody-event-character episode that just feels so forced it becomes anti-Community.
1/2

By season 6, Harmon (who was already a changed man after S3) seems to be less focused on keeping a thing alive, and rather okay with enjoying what he has until it dies. It's interesting to consider the beginning of writing S6 of Community, a show that had already died twice, with a series finale in mind.
And while it isn't perfect, S6 feels to me like a proper return, even if it's still redoing things and trying to respark old glories, it feels more unsure in that confident way it used to be. Maybe it accepted the end and that the cast wouldn't return and it tried some new things here and there. I even really like the new supporting cast, they feel much more "in" with the show and it sounds like some proper thought was put to them.

The series finale is proper Community as well. For an episode the show gets wild, creative, funny, and heartfelt again. The writing seems done more out of heart than some outside vision of what the show is, it captures past glory by doing something new, meta (with a reason), and it's focused on doing its own thing instead of trying to please Reddit, or the fans, or Harmon's ego.

Sorry for the blogpost, I just really like the show and feel a lot for it. It was there in an interesting point in my life and it shaped me yadda yadda etc etc
When all is said and done, I still love it, tho. And even with the 3 good/bad seasons, I wouldn't throw it away.
More than anything, if there's something to be said about Community after the dust has settled, it's that at least it was here.

Who wants to bet me Bitcoin that the blonde girl would actually be a lesbian

This show makes me regret wasting my college years, so there is some sad feeling watching this

>Dude.
Never fails to get me.

sucked after based Chevy got fired

Excellent post, there are rare reminders why I come here.

Pierce = Troy > Britta > Abed > Jeff = Annie > Shirley
this is before season 3
after that who fuckin cares

I cried when Troy left the show and Come Sail Away by Styx was playing

Remember watching maybe 2 episodes when it originally aired but I didn't really watch alot of tv at the time so I never kept up with it. Binged the whole thing oh Hulu last year and it really is a great show. First two seasons are great and the third is master class, season 4 and 5 were average but season six was great again

Season 6 was bad but redeemed itself with the last episode
Though you had to have watched the entire season to appreciate the last episode

First two seasons are absolutely fantastic and three was a little wonky at times but still amazing. Then season four came out and was one of the biggest piles of shit imaginable. I stopped watching halfway through, and I heard it gets a little better after four but I also heard they killed off Pierce because Dan Harmon is a petty little bitch and that Troy left because Glover wanted to move on to do a shitty rap career so I have no interest in watching them.

It's amazing until season 4, with some good stuff in season 5 and 6. 1-3 are worth a watch by anyone

It was fun at first until characters started leaving. Then it reminded me how nothing ever lasts and we all end up sad and alone, thinking about that period in our lives when we still felt alive.

>I've never seen a show drop that fast
Westworld died after the first season.

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She's not, she's a parody of an SJW who would probably try fucking a girl just once but who would secretly feel uncomfortable about it yet do it anyway to show how cool and progressive she is. She's also one of the funniest characters on the show because it goes out of its way to show how pathetic SJWs are.

one of the few shows where i give a fuck about forced diversity because it was well written

Season 2 was way better than 1. Way less generic romancy shit. I agree that season 3 was worse than both 1 and 2 though

I thought Andy Dick was funny on it

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You can pinpoint the last good episode of community is the one where they are doing the Star Wars paintball spoof:
When Abed takes starburns's vest and kisses any because he want to be Solo before Jeff defaults into it.

This is a community joke about the community characters. Here there's a reference to pop-culture, yet the reference isn't the punchline but the setup. After this they all stop and Abed just starts literally REEEEing and namedropping.

Plus, they stopped using the Goransson score for some odd reason:
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The glee club parody in season 3 was good

Season 3 had good episodes, it's true (as did most other seasons), but they are few and far apart.

The timelines one in S3 is also pretty great, despite spawning the most cancerous recurring joke from it. It's typical Jeff Winger being Jeff Winger, and showing that the show wouldn't work without Troy. Pus the Swedish troll is glorious.

Yeah that's fair enough. The running jokes were genuinely the worst part of community for me. Every variation of 'Troy and Abed in the Morning' made me want to turn the episode off.

They can be fun as a callback once or twice. Troy and Abed's worked as post-credits scenes since those are always pretty random and harmless. When it becomes your full arsenal of jokes, it ruins everything.

See also: Archer

i felt that, but it made me wish that i had a period in my life when i felt alive

>Plus, they stopped using the Goransson score for some odd reason:
T H I S
based Ludwig's score is ESSENTIAL to the spirit of the show. Blows my mind that they stopped

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>Damn

I never liked this show and couldn't quite put my finger on it. This image really show cases what was probably wrong. Too many minorities and two white guys. I never realized how hard core they tried to fill the minority bingo on this show lmao, of course I only ever watched like 3 episodes.

I remember watching thinking, this is a show for normies with very bland sense of humor.

It's comfy, it's kinda reddit tier but it's still nice

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Music was such an important part of the show. They really dropped the ball on it.

shit taste

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it was good.

>it's that at least it was here.
kino
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>one episode of the disaster season was fine even though the explanation of the story didn't make sense and contradicted aspects of season 1
No, bruh. You have shit taste.

Okay that episode really was kino. They should have made season 3 a spin off about Ake.
This episode is the only real exception though, the rest sucked ass.

based and true.
The 1st halloween ep is literally perfect

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Best part was Alison Brie

Most irritating theme tune in TV history. Alison Brie and whoever plays Britta were nice to look at. Chang was cringe.

Timelines ep is prolly my GOAT, it's one of those instances where everyone is firing on all cylinders.
It's a concept episode that's more about character work than how cool it is to do this concept. It's a struck of pure genius, in just 20 minutes it shows so much of how the study group operates socially and between the lines, who adds what to their dynamic and how essential everyone is.
The ending where Jeff leaves and everyone can just enjoy something that's theirs and no one gets hurt still gets me to this day, I love it so much.

And yeah, like you said, every subsequent appearance of the timelines is just "hey, isn't this cool?" Instead of being there for a reason.

Season 6 was underrated kino. 4 was the nadir and 5 was unspectacular although the polygraph episode ripped.

>Harmon
The show couldn't stop sniffing its own farts for 5 seconds.

The Dean was epic in this show.

Honestly, it's like this guy says, the diversity doesn't really matter because the writing is so good. The show is also about a bunch of wacky character who most likely would never interact with each other irl coming together and becoming friends, so the diversity is a visual representation of that.

Also the problem is that the first few episodes are pretty bad and boring. I watched the first five then stopped for the same reason you did, I thought the humor was bland. Picked it up on a whim in the middle of season 2 and loved it, the show gets much more experimental as it goes along. Also some of the characters get improved, Britta and Troy start off as the two weakest characters in the group and end up being two of the best after character adjustment.

>Here there's a reference to pop-culture, yet the reference isn't the punchline but the setup
basedbasedbased

>jeff never fucked annie
worst part of the show

>I never fucked prime Brie
Even worse part of the show

This was the episode to me that made Community go from good to great.

Finally an user with some taste. I agree, S6 felt more like old school community. Less up its own ass if you will.

Harmon, when unleashed to full potential, is awful. He gets so enamored with META stories. Being self-aware and making jokes can be good, but only when used sparingly. To me, reliance on meta humor is a crutch for lack of substance. It is a trend in media as our generation seems to be tired of old storytelling.

>I didn't bother with any of the other seasons.
I envy you
S4 is probably the worst season of anything I've watched