Community [Season 1] (NBC, 2010)IMDB LinkShow is getting a lot of positive feedback but you wouldn't know it from the first few episodes. You think, what's the big deal? It's so typical.
But then, like some of the best comedy shows, something clicks, and it becomes fantastic. The series is about a community college where a diverse group of people have a Spanish study group. This group consists of very different variety of people, a cocky ex-lawyer, an independent feminist kind of woman, a black divorced housewife, a young hardworking younger student, a black ex-football player, an old man, and an Arab. And in the first few episodes, these characters are exactly like how I described them, but eventually they all become likable, so when you are watching them, you realize you LIKE watching them because you LIKE them. Which is
And the later episodes each have a distinct feel to it, as they copy film genres. Abed (the arab character) is a film buff and he is usually commenting as if he is watching a film, so this meta-style fun to watch, it's not breaking the fourth wall, because Abed isn't talking to us, he just sees everything as TV (I totally understand).
Needs a bit of patience, but it does become really good.
4/5
