I think one angle our faithful reviewer is ignoring on this whole hysterical comedy-over-character development debate is the fact that, as the world (U.S.) has abandoned the music album (LP, CD, what have you), it has slowly adopted the "TV season album." As the next track on "season-album 3" of Community, this makes…

While I was watching this one, I felt unusually disengaged from a show I've become very invested in. I couldn't tell if it was the writing, or editing, or what, but the whole rhythm felt off, especially in a couple sequences, like the backstage scenes. Some of the cutting around and framing was bizarre. There also…

Oh, okay. Awesome. Glad to know there's something to my hunch. And, now the truth, both sad and good: I still need to see The Wire.

Taken individually, I think I preferred the bright psychosis and dark calm of the previous episode, if only because Jeff's subplot seemed too much of a step back character-wise. As some other commenters have pointed out, why are we back with super-egotistical Jeff from Season 1? The jokes were funny; the only way I…

As someone who thinks he has Asperger's but probably actually doesn't, seeing Abed every week-ish was kind of awesome. This was a bonus on top of one of the funniest and strangely heartfelt shows on TV in long time.