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Critic Reviews
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Still defiantly Community, still good and still uninterested in adding new viewers.
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Community is undimmed in its marvelously inventive wackiness. Trippy as ever as it continues to send up sitcom conventions with surreal zeal.
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The quirky campus comedy is as clever and edgy as ever.
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Community is still kicking, with more gas and laughs than just about any other NBC sitcom.
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There are enough surreal, self-referential, and/or testicle-related jokes to have me signing up for at least a few more weeks of tutelage. [8 Feb 2013, p.69]
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Fans were rightly worried when Harmon was canned, but at least the first two shows of the new season follow his crazy-quilt template.
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Community can be too consciously zany at times and occasionally misses more than it hits. But from the early looks of things, it seems to be holding up just fine.
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Community has always been a series that wears its badge of snappy creativity proud, and it's fourth season doesn't shy away from that.
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As for the two episodes themselves, they are good, if perhaps missing the same levels of confidence that Community exhibited during its run thus far
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This feels very much like the show I've been watching all along.
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In the two episodes NBC sent for review, Port and Guarascio are respectful to what came before--possibly too respectful, but the desire to not rock the boat is understandable.
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It feels like Port, Guarascio and the other writers decided to reverse-engineer the Harmon version of Community, but couldn’t quite manage without the missing ingredient of Harmon himself.
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The writers of Community have done a good job with what they were given. The problem is, they needed Dan Harmon.
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If Community has been an underappreciated gem for the past three years, its fourth season premiere is sadly lackluster. But if the Dean’s episode-ending prediction isn’t entirely convincing, it could be that Guarascio and Port just need more time.
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The new episodes don’t have the old complexity, messiness and poignance. They don’t inspire the wild excitement of having no idea what’s going to come on the screen next. They don’t have that electric sense of experimenting on the fly. And they don’t seem to do what Harmon had them do, what Community itself did, which is: grow.
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It’s not a terrible show. But it’s missing that unharmonious Harmon-ian spark of madness, that smiling volatility that made the show exciting (for fans) even when a line or scene or whole episode wasn’t quite working.
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The new episodes are such a good faith effort to continue Harmon’s legacy it’s a shame that they don’t really work at all.
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The show has been dumbed down, its humor broadened past recognition, and the two episodes provided for review have fewer laughs between them than a single good scene from the old Community.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 164 out of 240
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Mixed: 50 out of 240
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Negative: 26 out of 240
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