Yeah, these are pretty much my thoughts. If this season is amazing then I'll be happy to welcome four more seasons of Community, but I don't want this to be a "oh, that's still on?" show, which it's dangerously close to becoming.

I'm not really on board with the idea that a shorter season is such a terrible burden. Lots of shows make it work, like every single cable show. I think the "you guys might get a full season!" promise of S5 mixed with all of the departures and additions is probably what derailed the story arcs there though, so…

Haha remember when Amazon said they were going to be the place to give lesser known talents the opportunity to create shows & that they were going to use a fair and democratic pilot system

The main showrunner of this show, Dan Goor, isn't involved with Parks anymore. Schur is still involved with both but I believe he's more heavily involved with Parks. So I don't know how much overlap there really is.

That was fucking perfect.

B99's plotting has always been its weak point - to my mind, the reason it doesn't quite reach the levels of shows like The Office/30 Rock/Community/Parks & Rec is because it generally tends to stick quite closely to standard sitcoms plots rather than trying to bring something new to the formula like those shows did…

It feels like the show has learned from that episode because there hasn't been anything nearly as ugly and mean-spirited since then.

For some reason I really enjoyed that Bob and Linda actually jumped over from their B-plot and witnessed the kids' antics in this episode.

Yeah, the amount of callbacks in this episode was actually really cool.

Yeah, the gender stuff in this episode was pretty disappointing, especially since it started to make an interesting point and then just kinda stopped.

Yeah, I think prestige for TV is basically what "Oscar bait" is for movies.

But his entire point is that the idea of what makes "good" TV has led to a bunch of shows, like The Newsroom, that look and feel like "good TV" but aren't actually…you know, good. Which is exemplified by the fact that there's plenty of people who watch The Newsroom and think it makes them smarter because it *seems*…

I think the Leslie worship is a pretty recent thing. I've been going through Seasons 2 and 3 recently and it's amazing how many times Leslie is not only portrayed as wrong, but how many times she actually loses. The show definitely felt a little bit more realistic then.

To be fair, Parks is pretty upfront about the shittiness of government even if it glorifies it somewhat. The Parks department is full of likable people but basically everything outside of it is horrible. It's definitely a more realistic portrayal than B99 is of the NYPD. The show was better in its early seasons about…

I was about to call bullshit at the idea that they would be going to a beach house in January in a town that's driving distance from Brooklyn, but I was happy they acknowledged that it was because Boyle got the shitty end of the stick and they mostly just got drunk indoors.

I do think it'd be different if this were about like, the Pawnee police department (or something similar). The officers on the show kind of behave more like small-town cops anyway.

This show is a total mess and I love it.

That aspect kept me from really loving the show for a while, because a NYPD police precinct is just not a place I feel any desire to spend time in. It's not, like, a small town Parks department or backstage of a shitty comedy show or a flailing community college. It's something that actually makes an (often negative)…

I don't even care if this is "great TV" or not, it is totally fucking bonkers and I am on board. Network TV needs more giant swings like this.

I honestly don't care if this is "great TV" or not, it's a SINGING MUSICAL FARIYTALE SITCOM. On broadcast television. That's all that matters.