Thursday, October 13, 2011

Community 3x04

That episode... Uh, it didn't work for me at all (with the exception of the tag. The tag was brilliant. I want to live in that tag.) There were a couple of laughs but that is not at all why I tune in. It's usually sharper, sassier, more ironic and winking and that felt like...

Okay, when you do a multiple universes episode (or a time loop episode) the joy is looking at what changed or what went differently each time. But almost everything repeated and the stuff that repeated mostly wasn't funny. Jeff banged his head. Annie was worried. They kissed or didn't. Britta got high. Shirley made a pie. Pierce mentioned that he banged Eartha Kitt. And... that was it. There was no deep revelation of what different permutations of the group showed, no wry pop-culture references, no jokes, even, really. The only timeline that was really funny was the one where everyone died, and they waited for the tag to really take that joke home. And I guess at the end they sort of implied that everyone's happier without Jeff, which is a joke we've seen before.

Can I just watch the adventures of Evil Troy and Evil Abed, please? They seem to be actually on the road to doing something and being funny.

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