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[ad_1] No show has had a final season like Community. Few shows have ever had a run like Community. The show creator, Dan Harmon, was gone after the third season, then returned after a poorly-received fourth season. Then, after that return season, the show got cancelled. Community got the boot from NBC after the fifth…

[ad_1] The fourth season of Community is kind of a mess. It’s Community in name only. Namely, Dan Harmon wasn’t running the show. For season five, he returned, but the show still underwent turmoil. Chevy Chase, always a mercurial figure, was gone. Donald Glover, a man whose career was on the rise, split as well.…

[ad_1] Is the fourth season of Community truly a season of Community? In one sense, of course. It is, tautologically speaking, a season of the TV show Community. On the other hand, spiritually speaking, maybe it isn’t. This is the season when Dan Harmon wasn’t working on the show. He had been given the boot,…

[ad_1] At the time, the third season of Community felt momentous. It seemed like it might be the end, or would be the end of an era. It was, initially, going to be the end of the run for Dan Harmon. He had created the show, but he also turned it into an unwieldy beast.…

[ad_1] I covered the first season of Community last time around. Now it’s time to get to the second season. This season is different, as I do recall. It leaned more into the pop culture of it all and the genre parody. They found what worked for the show. Is season two a step up?…

[ad_1] Will Community have a lasting legacy? If so, what will it be? The show that introduced us to Donald Glover and Alison Brie? The show that Chevy Chase was on? A messy, sometimes brilliant sitcom slathered in the detritus of pop culture? The show that the Russo brothers worked on before becoming the go-to…