TV Review: Community (season 2)

There are many sitcoms on TV that are watched by gazillions of people. The "reboot" of Two and A Half Men is one and so is The Big Bang Theory and they're both two shows made by the same creator, broadcast by the same old TV network that doesn't really care how funny are these shows as long as they have a laugh track. An interesting note about these shows are that they're mediocre or if you wish to exagerrate "terrible" by any half of the masses because most of the jokes aren't funny or many episodes had never had the courage of trying anything new and many are wondering why are they so popular in the first place.

Enter shows such as Arrested Development, Curb Your Enthusiasm and It's Always Sunny. They're all shows well known to many people who likes their television to be smart, sophisticated and stretchly made. But they're not watched by many people because unless you're in charge of Arrested Development, it's on cable and viewers are afraid to be charged a few dollars a month for watching a show that is profound and groundbreaking. Arrested Development won a few Emmys and have never gained an audience it deserves from the critical acclaim. So all of these shows have their own niches. They're never made to be niche, but they are forced to if network executives cannot understand the appeal of television with the beliefs that you're staring for hours of a show you've made no decision whether or not you'll watch.

There's a reason why Community exist. There need to be a sitcom with a great emphasis of the word 'meta' or in this case a show that rely on self-referential humor at all times.

Community (season 1)

Every time I watch a TV show it's usually a sitcom because I wouldn't want to waste an hour or half an hour on a soap opera that had been running for eternities, reality shows where fame chasers grab the spot and legal dramas that still follow the formula and tries to grab you with cliffhangers in their promos. But hey I bought the first three seasons of Breaking Bad and the first season of Parks and Recreation. And there's a lot of catching up to do.

This is the first time I've seen a sitcom that doesn't relate to the usual-shmultzy high school sitcom. It doesn't poke fun at the misadventures the characters would experience nor does the show turn them into a whole and have a story per episode grouped together ala Glee who does all of the forms above.