"Community" Review

Thursday a new show started on NBC. It's a half hour sitcom called "Community" starring Joel McHale, Chevy Chase and quite a few others. I first heard about it when I was watching The Soup the other night, because Joel McHale is the host of the Soup and he was promoting the show. It looked vaguely interesting so I recorded it just for the hell of it and watched it a little bit ago.


It's a comedy show about a snarky, disbarred lawyer [McHale] who is going back to community college to get a real degree, since he lied about the first one (hence the disbarment). On his first day he meets a pretty girl who is in his spanish class who is worried about passing their test, and he REALLY wants to get to know her... so he tells her is a "board certified spanish tutor" and that he has a little study group going in the library at X time she agrees to come. The only catch is, it's a huge lie and quite a few other people show up to this study group.

I have to say, I don't usually bother watching sitcoms nowadays because in my opinion most of them are all the same-unfunny dialogue read in a funny way, and the same type of characters over and over. But I really liked Community; it was a fairly new idea for a TV show, and the characters were hilarious. There was an Arabic guy name Abad in there who just sits there and talks really fast spewing out random pop culture facts that half the time no one pays attention to; a girl who was sent to rehab in high school [they call her Adderal Annie], a middle aged woman who is made to feel semi-self conscious about her decisions in life, and a few others. The dialogue was pretty hilarious, too. Half the time the humor was really subtle and that was why it was so funny; the other half it was just Joel McHale being his ridiculous self and causing shenanigans.

So, I suggest that people watch Community, it breaks up the normal TV drama blah's and is a pretty original idea. It's on Thursday nights at...8:30pm I believe on NBC. :]