Community
Samuel Axon
NBC executives may have fired Community creator Dan Harmon, but the show is definitely coming back — this time under the leadership of Just Shoot Me!, Aliens in America, and Happy Endings producers Moses Port and David Guarascio. The exact date of the new, Harmon-free season premiere has been elusive for months — but now we know. NBC has slotted Community for [...]
Anna Washenko
NBC has raised a lot of eyebrows among Community fans when the network decided to axe its creator, Dan Harmon, from the staff. While that was a better outcome than the rumor that the show would be canceled, loyal watchers feared that without Harmon’s creative vision, the cult hit might lose some of the surreal kookiness that made it so [...]
Samuel Axon
Danny Puddi-played Abed has become the soul and driving force in the NBC sitcom Community, and like any sitcom character, he has a few catch-phrases. The most infectious is the least obvious: “cool, cool, cool.” This viral YouTube video is a supercut of every time Abed says “cool” over the course of the series. Can you count how many times [...]
Samuel Axon
The New York Daily News claims that “multiple reports” say this fall’s TV season will be the last for cult favorites 30 Rock, Parks and Recreation, and Community. NBC confirmed that each series will receive partial orders (about 13 episodes) for the new season, but these reports suggest that the series will end after those episode. They’d be replaced by [...]
Samuel Axon
NBC’s Community has become a cult hit despite threat of cancellation, and that’s thanks in no small part to its meta approach to storytelling. The show frequently adopts certain cinematic styles for specific episodes, and it’s laced with self-reference. It might be a bit pretentious to call it postmodern, so we’ll just call it a lot of fun. This week, [...]
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