The show didn't really get any awards attention like Girls did though, which may have been something HBO was banking on: what it renews is really all about preserving the networks image, unless something really takes off like True Blood or Game of Thrones. It does seem to be getting a lot more buzz now that it's on…

I just caught up with Year of the Dog, and though it's a bit shallow compared to Enlightened, it's a very enjoyable film and I was impressed at how Shannon really managed to carry that film. She might have been even better here, it was amazing how well she fleshed out her character and sold her attraction to Tyler in…

I like this show but couldn't stand this episode: it felt self indulgent to the most ridiculous degree possible. It was like Dunham wrote a Fifty Shades of Grey-esque fanfiction story for her own show, then produced it with a movie star just because she could. Joshua was such a poorly defined character, and I didn't…

Seeing as there are only three episodes left, one of them is directed by Todd Haynes, and this show has never had a disappointing episode, I think we can safely expect the answer to be yes. Todd's already weighed in and said that he thinks there's a strong chance this will end up as his favorite show of the year.

I mean I'm loving this season, but I wouldn't say season 1 was any weaker. I'd say the show has always been one of the best (maybe the best) things on television but critics are only now really starting to take note, perhaps because this season is more suspenseful and plot driven, and airing after the widely talked…

…and every other show on tv.

I don't get that complaint about Digital Estate Planning, though I've seen it crop up a lot here lately. I thought it was the second funniest episode of the third season: the videogame stuff was gold, despite the setup being very problematic.

Yeah I think the show has been doing this pretty much from the beginning. It's weird having multiple episodes with no Caroline but Bonnie though, and it seems like a larger number of characters are being left out than before. It kind of shows how ancillary Caroline has been this season, I hope they give her more to do…

You're still a huge fan of Shyamalan? I would think the one-two gut punch of The Village and Lady in the Water would be enough to kill any desire to see him make anything else ever again.

Most likely they won't, and will just go in a completely different direction from the UK series in the second season.

Isn't this just exactly what HBO started doing with Oz and The Sopranos…. over fifteen years ago? People really overestimate how groundbreaking this show is: there is absolutely nothing about the show or it's format that wouldn't fit in perfectly over on Showtime and Starz where people would make a lot less fuss over…

This is true, and one of the reasons that Cooperative Calligraphy is possibly the best episode of the show. I do hope the new writers will try to focus on some of that, and not just double down on the season 3 style wackiness as they did in this episode (as much as I mostly loved last season).

Something weird was going on with this review, there were more typos than a Rabin tv write up.

Yes, absolutely. I was pretty underwhelmed by last season until Chaos Theory came along, it was a slow starter for sure. I don't think we can really pass much judgment on how much has changed till the fifth or sixth episode of this season.

Wasn't that kind of the point of the Jeff speech? It wasn't a real Winger speech, it was Abed's version of one, which was bound to be inferior.

I felt like Annie's subplot was kind of lame and hacky but Allison Brie really played the hell out of it: the writing for this show might become somewhat weaker but the cast remains delightful.

You could see the terribleness of the jokes as another reference to how fans perceive this season of Community: as someone trying to write a sitcom, but not knowing how. Abed doesn't have a great sense of humor, so would he be able to write good jokes in his mind?

A ton of writers also left along with Harmon, and it did seem like they had a bit of trouble with the dialogue rythyms. I thought the character actions were actually very in character, but some of the dialogue felt really off, especially between Jeff and the Dean… that tango scene was just so awkward, and not for the…

I think there was a LOT more to that than people are giving it credit for. It was a jab at what NBC wanted it to be, a message to the fans that they were going to try to keep the show's integrity while saying that there would be some change and evolution, a bit of a jab in the direction of it's competition (i.e. BBT),…

Clearly Todd's answer will be a resounding "no" seeing as he ranked it as the 3rd best show of 2012.