progressive politics and regressive entertainment. like peanut and butter.
May 6, 2012 Leave a comment
This week on Community, we say goodbye to Star-Burns, which means saying hello to Alex Osbourne.
STAR-BURNS: My name is Alex Osbourne, and if you’re watching this, it means I’m dead.
April 20, 2012 Leave a comment
Community this week focuses on a specific relationship, and it’s not the one you might expect. Yes, it’s obvious that Troy and Britta have a brewing brouhaha, but it’s Annie’s attempt to play matchmaker with the two of them that leads her into confrontation with Abed. Annie and Abed enter into a world of simulations, with characters playing other characters, all coming together to suggest that imagination can be utilized to explore and strengthen friendships.
So, shall we join the group?
April 13, 2012 1 Comment
Last night’s new episode of Community began with Troy and Abed playing a hand-clapping game, reminding us that they are best friends. And we are reassured that their brutal feud over pillows and blankets has been left in the past.
April 6, 2012 Leave a comment
“Pillows and Blankets” is, of course, the conclusion to what began last week’s Community episode entitled “Digital Exploration of Interior Design.” We open on a scene of desolation and destruction.
April 1, 2012 2 Comments
I’m not sure that product placement in television shows always does what the big businesses supposes it does. That is, I presume that the main thing that they want to do is to remind us of their ubiquity, but when Shirley says…
SHIRLEY: That should be my sandwich shop. It was my idea to put one there!
March 23, 2012 2 Comments
Last week, the NBC sitcom Community returned to the airwaves. A nation cheered. Well, a nation cheered with the exception of Salon columnist Willa Paskin, who felt that Community had gone too far in toning itself down for its mid-season return. While I’m all for firming and toning, I felt that “Urban Matrimony and the Sandwich Arts” was a thoroughly satisfying experience, even if it wasn’t one of the more fantastical Community romps. And I’ve been very much looking forward to this week’s “Contemporary Impressionists.” So what’s my impression?
March 19, 2012 2 Comments
Community is back! Community is back! Did you hear that Community came back last week?
January 3, 2012 Leave a comment
In follow-up news to our 30 Rock and the Dictator concerns, NBC has reassured US Weekly that Tina Fey and the rest of her cabal of writers are on top of things, and are figuring out how to reconcile the sitcom’s subplot dealing with North Korea, now that the dictator Kim Jong Il is dead.
Unfortunately, it will mean an end to the fun of Margaret Cho playing the lunatic despot, unless they concoct some flashback scenes.
– Flashback to 30 Rock and the Death of a Dictator
