Brian Damage
10-18-2011, 10:23 PM
There's a reason why so few people watch what is probably television's best comedy: It's not easy. Even when you keep up with the rapidly evolving humor, you never get to rest easy when watching Community. The show challenges the very bases of comedy formatting, forcing viewers to question what a "sitcom" even is.
When you add this to extra-weird premises like paintball ("Modern Warfare," "A Fistful of Paintballs" and "For a Few Paintballs More"), fake flashbacks ("Paradigms of Human Memory") and even alternate realities (the recent and excellent "Remedial Chaos Theory"), the questioning turns to brilliance. Watching an episode of Community can be exhausting. But it might be the best exhaustion you could ever feel.
http://www.buddytv.com/slideshows/community/smart-shows-10-tv-shows-that-get-better-when-you-think-14622.aspx
When you add this to extra-weird premises like paintball ("Modern Warfare," "A Fistful of Paintballs" and "For a Few Paintballs More"), fake flashbacks ("Paradigms of Human Memory") and even alternate realities (the recent and excellent "Remedial Chaos Theory"), the questioning turns to brilliance. Watching an episode of Community can be exhausting. But it might be the best exhaustion you could ever feel.
http://www.buddytv.com/slideshows/community/smart-shows-10-tv-shows-that-get-better-when-you-think-14622.aspx