I haven't been a viewer of the series COMMUNITY on NBC at
all. For one reason or another I just never got around to watching the show.
This is not to say I had an ulterior motive for not watching it. I mean I like
star Joel McHale on THE SOUP on E! But I just never got around to watching it.
So when the chance to watch this DVD came I figured it was time to start. I'm
glad I didn't see the first three seasons now.
For those who haven't been watching, like me, the series is
about a group of oddball characters at a local community college who band
together in a study group. The purpose is to study and get grades good enough
to graduate. Instead we find it as more of an excuse to create a dysfunctional
family that binds the individuals together.
With this being the fourth season it also means that it's
senior year for the students in this group, none of which seem to be college
student age. This creates all sorts of mixed emotions among them from joy about
getting out to fear about facing the real world without the help and support of
the group. While both would seem to offer plenty of grain to mill out some
laughs, none seem to happen. I mean sure there are things that are meant to be
funny but they never quite work.
That's sad too because with this likeable group of actors I
truly wanted to fall in love with this show. But watching episode after episode
I realized halfway through that I had laughed perhaps once and smiled once as
well. I couldn't find myself enjoying any of the characters and the jokes were
so over the top as to be unfunny. Even the sophomoric jokes weren't funny.
Perhaps my favorite episode, if you could call it that, was
one where two of the group (room mates and best friends) go to a sci-fi
convention which is obviously a take on Dr. Who. The whole geek atmosphere was
well played as was bits and pieces of the story. But as I've said, it was hard
to find a character to sympathize with, relate to or feel sorry for even. Nice
premise, failure to follow through.
Perhaps it's a generational thing. In talking with my father
he told me there isn't a single comedy on TV these days that he enjoys
watching. I've found one or two, but nothing like there were years ago. Even
some of the bad ones from the past were better than this one. Better yet DUCK
DYNASTY (which I watched for the first time this week) is funnier in one
episode than anything I witnessed here in the entire season four.
If this sort of humor is one you enjoy more power to you. If
you've watched an episode and laughed then perhaps you'll enjoy this entire
season. But if you're a little bit pickier about what you watch, pass this one
by and look for reruns of some comedy show that was actually funny. There's
little doubt that FRASIER or MASH is playing right now on some station.
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