/tele/ - TV and Film

The only thing I liked the black kid in is Mystery Team. I really didn't like Community, apart from Chevy Chase.

starts off mediocre, gets pretty ok, then it goes all meta jokes and shit. overall 7.5/10

Eh, I've heard a lot of mixed opinions about it. I might check it out. I know the same guy who made Rick and Morty made Community so I might check it out.

>>30

>mixed opinions

imo it's kind of a huge mess. I felt alot of cringe while watching it because alot of it felt very awkwardly formulaic but without any substance. I know Dan Harmon does the "story circle" thing which is his adaptation of Joseph Campbell's hero's journey, so alot of eps of Community come across like "Well we followed the story circle so this should all make sense"…When, for me personally, alot of the characters' motivations and actions make no sense at all, not even comedically. However, while alot of it felt like soulless normieshit, you can tell that the actors at least occasionally love what they are doing, and on top of that, here and there the writers hit gold and it will get on a little roll of being top tier funny. If you're a tv/movie nerd, then the references to tv and movies add a little spice and it's a fun/cute touch.

As another anon mentioned it gets really meta. In a way, the metashit is annoying but I feel like it also really drew me in…Because if you ignore the side of the meta-ness that is just Dan Harmon & Co. being weirdly self-depricatingly conceited–or whatever it is they are doing with that–it's also like the show is being extremely open and honest about the fact that their scripts are never done on time, they miss the target alot of the time, their shit is terrible alot of the time, they directly say that it is "inaccessible", and so on…For me, someone who rarely watches present-day sitcoms that air on regular TV and definitely had no TV and watched none of that kind of shit during 2009 when this show began, it's kind of a weird and uncomfortable look into how network TV shows function, like im being forced to look at the guts of the show while also just watching the show itself.

sorry for the rant…i honestly watched this whole thing over the course of like 5 days maybe, and have nobody to talk to about it

>>33

meta guy here. I like meta jokes, usually. For example 30rock went meta but then it's already a show about making a show so it feels right and also the writing feels improvised a lot of the time, it's cool.

Community went all meta and it felt to me like a shitty acid trip where all you can do is think about what you're doing and it feels really forced and lame. So yeah. Sometimes it hit comedy gold but too infrequently for me, a lot of the time it was formulaic and tbh on the wrong side of the normie/weird spectrum.

>>33

if you haven't seen it check out Almost Heroes.

I think it got cancelled after one series but they did a really cool thing where they would trot out a bunch of sitcom cliches, and then have their wacky characters suddenly act like real people and basically make a mockery of the usual cliches. Had a lot of promise.

>>38

>Community went all meta and it felt to me like a shitty acid trip where all you can do is think about what you're doing and it feels really forced and lame.

Yeah that kind of hits the nail on the head for how I feel about this show, except that that feeling draws me in rather than repels me.

Interesting about 30rock. I have never seen it.

>>39

I will check that out

>>24

I havent even seen the new season but i heard its supposed to be really good. I should probably catch up on it.

Season rankings:

1>2>3>4>6>5

>>74

breddy good

Just watched the pilot, it seems a bit forced but I can definitely see how it influenced R&M's humor.

Anyone else get the feeling that the creator jumped shipped and now cares more about rick and morty?

>>113

yeah