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The humor in Community is so soft that it will likely please only the tenderhearted. The river that runs through it is a comforting one, though.
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It is technically proficient--that is, the jokes consistently work, even when they don't add up to much--and its problems may not be unsolvable, if anyone even considers them problems in the first place.
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In weeks ahead, the show will likely work out a balance between the jerk and the laughs. Then it can also start exploring the other characters, all of whom have the potential to fuel amusing ongoing subplots.
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Community embraces the traditional sitcom notion of “family” being what you make of it, but it’s a little too self-conscious about the genre’s cliches--or at least, feels that way because its satirical elements aren’t as crisp as they need to be.
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The dialogue, while quick, has all the calculated bite of a smirky cellphone commercial, veering into jokes about Ben Affleck and "The Breakfast Club." The grading scale here is strictly Pass/Fail. Its preseason hype aside, Community needs to buckle down to survive the semester.
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The series, which has so much promise (and promised so much), is long on smug self-satisfaction and short on big laughs.
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Community's party animals tend to get their kicks less from bongs, grain-alcohol projectile vomiting and peeping into sorority windows than from irregular Spanish verbs and lengthy recitations of the script of The Breakfast Club, which, for the most part, is even less amusing than it sounds.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 695 out of 734
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Mixed: 12 out of 734
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Negative: 27 out of 734
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Jan 11, 2012
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Sep 6, 2010
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DaltonJan 15, 2010Community is the first new show in years that I look forward to each week. A great ensemble with quick, witty writing.