Whoa, what is all this crap on my DVR? How am I supposed to keep up with all the new fall shows? I feel so stressed out, and we’re just talking about TV.
There’s not a whole lot out there anymore when it comes to comedy. I love Big Bang Theory, 30 Rock, The Office and How I Met Your Mother, but we need more! That’s why I’m excited about the two new shows getting positive buzz this year, ABC’s Modern Family and NBC’s Community.
Community premiered last night, and although it didn’t blow me away, I think it’s got some major potential. It stars stars E’s adorable Joel McHale stars as Jeff Winger, a lawyer who must go to community college after his degree gets revoked. He forms a study group with his misfit classmates, including Pierce (Chevy Chase), Britta (Gillian Jacobs), Shirley (Yvette Nicole Brown), Abed (Danny Pudi), Annie (Alison Brie) and Troy (Donald Glover). John Oliver of The Daily Show plays the Dean, and he’s quite funny.
The dialogue is sharp and hilarious, but right now I’m not sure if Community really knows what it’s about. I know what you’re thinking – isn’t it about finding a sense of community? And I think maybe it will be…we just have to give it a few more episodes.
Nice review. I thought the show was hilarious! I laughed out loud a few times and I think this is my favorite comedy show right now (The Office was blah). Love Joel McHale!
John Oliver plays a professor of psychology. Not the dean.
You wrote some generic statements and used IMDB info. Did you even watch the show? John Oliver plays a psychology professor. The dean is in the very first scene giving the speech, and he is not John Oliver. This isn’t a review. It’s barely a summation. The show tells you exactly what it’s about. It’s about Jeff learning to actually work for something in his life. It’s about a group of fringe misfits learning to take ownership of who they are, and to be proud of that. The letterman jacket speech? The monologue about Steve the pencil? The entire pilot hammers you over the head with this stuff. Try watching a show before you talk about it.
“It stars stars E’s adorable Joel McHale stars as Jeff Winger, a lawyer who must go to community college after his degree gets revoked.” That was an awkward sentence. Also, McHale doesn’t lose his degree. He faked a degree. He lost his law license. I kind of agree with “Do Better” on this one, although he/she was a bit of a dick about it.
We at Community NBC loved the Pilot!
Yeah, there’s absolutely nothing here. It sounds like you wrote this in 30 seconds – it’s getting good buzz, these are the actors, it may be good/it may not be. And then there are the handful of grammatical/factual errors, which is hard to do considering the “review” is about 150 words.
I can’t wait for her Fringe review, where she tells me, “Weird stuff happened and Joshua Jackson looked nummy.” Does she get paid for this crap?