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On Thursday May 10, 2012 Community was renewed for a fourth season by NBC . As with a few of NBC's other returning comedy shows, the season will be abbreviated consisting of only 13 episodes. On May 18, it was announced by Sony Pictures Television that series creator and showrunner Dan Harmon was to be replaced by Moses Port and David Guarascio (co-creators of the short-lived Aliens in America ). Neil Goldman and Garrett Donovan, Chris McKenna , Dino Stamatopoulos , Anthony Russo, and Joe Russo also left the series. The Season Four premiere was originally meant to be on October 19, 2012 and the show was intended to be moved from the Thursday timeslot to Friday night's before "Grimm" . NBC eventually pushed back the premiere date and announced that the show would return on February 7, 2013 at it's original timeslot on Thursday 8:00 EST.

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October 19 video [ ]

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Community Season 4 Premieres - Someday

On Friday, October 19, 2012, the day the show was supposed to premiere, a tweet was sent out on Community's official twitter page with a link to a youtube video. Featuring the entire cast of Community , it addressed in a tongue-in-cheek manner the delay of the show and assured fans that it would eventually return at a later date. Gillian Jacobs (whose birthday is actually October 19) was credited with the idea for the video by fellow cast member Yvette Nicole Brown [1] .

NBC announces midseason return [ ]

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Community 4x01 Promo "History 101" (HD)

Official NBC Commercial announcing Community's return on February 7

On October 30th, NBC Yvette Nicole Brown on her twitter acccount broke the news about Community 's return by tweeting this message:

NBC later made an official announcement reported by various online entertainment news sites from Variety to Entertainment Weekly confirming the news. It returned as a midseason replacement in its regular time slot at 8:00pm EST on Thursday.

Chevy Chase quits [ ]

Reaction to season four [ ], critical reviews [ ].

Overall, the fourth season of Community has generally received mixed-to-positive reviews. Metacritic tabulated a "weighted average" from 18 critics and gave Season Four a "Metascore" of 69 out of 100. This put it on par with their previous score for Season One . Verne Gay of Newsday opined: "Still defiantly Community, still good and still uninterested in adding new viewers." Hitfix's Alan Sepinwall stated: "It feels like [Moses] Port, [David] Guarascio and the other writers decided to reverse-engineer the [Dan] Harmon version of Community, but couldn't quite manage without the missing ingredient of Harmon himself." Mike Hale of The New York Times has stated that the series "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."

Renewal [ ]

Sony negotiates for a season five [ ].

Under the new showrunners Season Four concluded it's run on May 9 and on May 10 Community was renewed for a fifth season consisting of another 13 episodes. This came on the heels of days of intense negotiations between Sony and the network. Cast and Crew sent out tweets thanking the fans for their continued support.

Port and Guarascio depart, Harmon returns [ ]

According to Deadline, Season Four showrunners David Guarascio and Moses Port were invited back to return for the fifth season following the announcement of the renewal. However, they made the decision to move on to something new. Writers Megan Ganz , Annie Mebane and Steve Basilone also moved on to other projects. On May 26, it was reported by Hollywookie.com that Community creator and former showrunner Dan Harmon claimed on his latest Harmontown podcast that he was asked to return to the show. On June 1, 2013, Harmon officially announced on his twitter account that he would be returning for Season Five .

Harmon reacts to Season Four [ ]

After having been rehired by Sony, Harmon discussed in various interviews that he still hadn't watched Season Four and would be soon marathoning it alongside with his new co-showrunner Chris McKenna . On June 7th, Harmon stated in an interview with entertainment new site Splitsider that he would try to be fair in his reaction to Season Four:

However, upon finishing the entire season he had very negative things to say about it on his " Harmontown podcast ":

He later issued an apology on his twitter account and would go on to write a lengthy essay apologizing to both the cast, crew and particularly the fans who supported the show on his tumblr account :

Complete list of Season Four episodes [ ]

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  • 'Community': New exec producers David Guarascio and Moses Port reveal season 4 details
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‘True Detective: Night Country’ Ending: Creator Issa López on Those Killers, Season 1 Ties and What’s the Deal With Annie’s Tongue?

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SPOILER ALERT:  This interview contains spoilers from “Part 6,”   the season finale of HBO’s “ True Detective: Night Country ,” now streaming on Max.

After flirting with the supernatural all season, the finale of “True Detective: Night Country” revealed that the show’s killers were very much real human beings.

But back to the mystery. As Navarro had intuited immediately, a murder years before led to the 2024 deaths of the TSALAL scientists. Activist Annie K. (Nivi Pedersen) discovered that not only were the scientists faking environmental data for Silver Sky Mining — the company that’s been poisoning Ennis — but they actually wanted the permafrost to melt so they could better conduct their experiments. In a justifiable rage, Annie destroyed their research in the secret lab under the TSALAL station, and when the men caught her, they stabbed her and beat her, seemingly to death. When her boyfriend, scientist Raymond Clark (Owen McDonnell), went to weep over her body and Annie showed signs of life, he smothered her with his T-shirt.

It’s a long night for everyone, and by the time the northern lights streak the New Year’s Day sky, Clark has purposefully chosen to freeze to death, the power has gone out and both Navarro and Danvers have ventured out onto the ice, hearing the whispers that have called to them throughout the series. For Navarro, that Danvers nearly dies falling through the ice — she thinks her dead son Holden is trapped under it — is what snaps her back to reality, and they end up saving each other, with Danvers finally grieving her son.

“That they embraced at the end is all the companionship that the two of them need,” López tells Variety.

Danvers and Navarro toast to the New Year, and finally admit that they’ve become friends. “Try to come back, OK?” Danvers says to Navarro, who clearly still feels the pull to wander. After Navarro mentions the hatch again, Danvers, going on a hunch, puts a UV light on it, and finds a handprint with two shortened fingers, indicating that Blair Hartman (Kathryn Wilder) had been there. Blair is one of the women of Ennis who have multiple jobs, and hover around the periphery of the town — López calls them “the women who know everything.”

With the blizzard over, Navarro and Danvers go to speak with Blair, and Bee (Diane E. Benson), clearly the group’s leader, takes charge of the conversation — or the “story,” as she puts it. “Those fuckers killed Annie K.,” Bee says, as she describes how she had discovered the underground lab while cleaning at TSALAL, and then figured out what had happened to Annie six years earlier. This band of women then came together to kidnap the TSALAL scientists, busting in with guns and corralling them into a truck. After making them strip and forcing them to walk out onto the ice, Bee says she was leaving their fates up to nature. “I guess she ate their dreams from the inside out, and spit their frozen bones,” she says with a shrug. As the women stand in formation against Danvers and Navarro, Danvers tells them the case has been officially closed. “Thought you’d want to know, seeing as they were your employers and all,” she says.

The audience sees Navarro setting out to walk across the ice, but this time, she looks resolved and happy, not frightened. As we watch Danvers and her stepdaughter Leah (Isabella Star LaBlanc), happy and getting along, one of the investigators asks about sightings of Navarro, who has become a mythical figure. “Well, this is Ennis,” Danvers says, over a serene scene of her and Navarro sharing space on a deck that overlooks a lake. “Nobody ever really leaves.”

In a wide-ranging interview, López discusses the details of the finale, where Danvers and Navarro end up, the mystery of Annie K.’s tongue — and confirms that yes, Rose’s (Fiona Shaw) late ex-boyfriend was Rust Cohle’s father.

I’ve seen people worrying on social media that the show wouldn’t have enough time for the mysteries to be resolved — but most of them are! What questions did you know you wanted to answer definitively in the show’s finale?  

Who did it! It’s a whodunit. There’s a satisfaction in knowing what happened. It’s two different crimes and they’re connected, and we’ll get an answer on both.

Most importantly, I want to know honestly if our characters are going to find their own answers, and I think very much that they do. One thing that we hear Danvers say in Episode 5 is, “You need to know when to stop asking questions.” That’s one line — the other one is, “Not every question has an answer.” So there’s things that will be up for our audience to decide on themselves. And that was very important to me too.

At what point in your writing process did you know who had killed Annie and what happened to the Tsalal scientists? Can you take us inside your process for how those things were related?

We know who put those men in the ice. What happened after the men ran into the ice? That’s up to you.

I knew the moment that I wrote, “Men disappear in an Arctic research station…” that there would be a body part that would connect with an older crime. So that’s how it all started.  And then I thought, “What is going to be interesting?” Lynch absolutely took care of ears forever.

He sure did.

There is a Japanese movie by a very demented and incredible Japanese director [Takashi Miike] that did that movie “Audition.” And there’s a tongue actually flapping on the floor in that movie, and it’s an image that stays with you. I thought that that would be a nice reference. Nobody has caught it up until this moment.

One thing I love to do in my work is underline the concept that we are at the point in history where we can’t trust the justice machine to come and help us, and that justice needs to be manifested in a different way. So who would avenge the death of this woman? It was obvious that it was the very same women that had been suffering this.

Day one, I knew those two things, and that’s all I knew. I needed to construct everything in between.

How did you come up with this secret society of women in Ennis, who are the ones who’ve taken revenge against the scientists who’d killed Annie?

As a Mexican immigrant who’s now a citizen in the United States, it’s such an interesting thing to realize that everybody working beyond the spotlight is invisible. Usually, the waiter that comes to your table in the restaurant is an aspiring actor or writer, or perhaps a French immigrant. But it’s rarely the Mexican that just crossed the border that is struggling, or the Ecuadorian. Those are the ones that pick up the plates, and when you call them, they quickly say, “I will call your waiter.” We’re not supposed to interact! They’re the people that show up in the office after everybody left.

However, they’re witnesses to everything that happens in all these places; they’re the invisible witnesses. And I thought that the working women in this town could be pretty invisible, which is unfortunate. But at the same time, it gives you a chance to observe everything, and do things that nobody will notice — because nobody’s looking at you.

And with Annie’s murder— ultimately, we see that it was Clark who killed her, even though he says to Danvers and Navarro that he “would never hurt her.” Tell me about that decision — to show what really happened as we hear his lie.

I establish in the series that you cannot rely on the stories that your characters are telling you when you see what actually happened — as happens in real life. But the question here with Clark is how much he believes what he’s saying. And I think he does. It’s torturing him, because at a certain level, he knows exactly what he did by stopping her from breathing.

This woman is moments away from dying anyway. And in his mind, he wants to stop it, the way that you put a wounded animal out of his misery. But she could have been saved? I think she could have been saved, or at least it could have been attempted. And it’s possible that the other scientists, after the horror and the shock, would have allowed it. And how much of that decision is to quote, “stop Annie’s suffering?” Or knowing that, thinking that if he doesn’t do it, one of the scientists is going to come and kill her with no love. Or that Clark also needs that secret to stay a secret.

Where does Navarro go when she sets off across the ice? Is she in a place of peace? Is she alive?

Navarro — definitely she’s at peace. That decision is very different than the Navarro that we see in the station listening to voices and walking into the ice. Then, she’s terrified thinking that she’s going to her destruction. She’s been fighting that call for a long, long time.

And what she finds once she surrenders to it is that the voices are trying to embrace her, and give her something that is a missing piece of her life. So now she can, with that knowledge, make a decision about this instinct that she always had, of, “Just go, and keep on going.” And do it at peace with herself. If that takes her to the afterlife or not, it’s a little bit open for interpretation.

There is going to be a part of our audience that wants to believe in the poetry of her just leaving to be with the spirits of the people she’s lost, and not be alone in the way that she is now. And that’s OK! That’s an interpretation.

My colleague and I had very different interpretations of the final shot of the series of Navarro and Danvers. I’m a literalist, so I thought, “Oh, they’re hanging out at a lake house.” And she said, “I don’t think that’s the corporeal Navarro.” So tell me about that.

When the author speaks, it’s over. And I don’t want to cut out the reading that your colleague had. I love, love, love that, because what you two did is what I want our audience to do. If the Navarro that comes back is her spirit, there’s a beautiful poetry into that: It’s a spirit at peace, not like the apparitions that she saw before. And if she is Navarro after going on a walkabout and coming back to hang with her friend, that’s beautiful too.

Danvers is very broken at the start of the show. Where did you want her to be at the end?

Danvers is a person that has absolutely frozen herself, petrified herself, hardened herself. Jodie and I worked very hard on the concept that she was not turning to this horrible, marvelous — I love her — bitch because of the tragedy she went through. As Connelly states, she was terrible before! She was always impossible, but she became a lot tougher and bitter and angrier after it. And it was her way to deal with it.

When she’s quiet, she can hear Holden’s voice. And she can hear “Twist and Shout” when she opens the fridge, which is the song that Holden loved. And when she’s alone, she puts that white noise machine to cut all of this. She doesn’t listen to music because music accesses emotions and brings messages. So she cuts it all with a white noise machine, and never listens to anything.

So the Danvers on the other side is the Danvers that has made peace with her loss, that can think about her child. And that can now enjoy her other child. Finally!

You mentioned the tongue earlier, and throughout the finale Danvers and Navarro keep asking people whether they had cut out Annie’s tongue. When I interviewed John Hawkes , he thought that Hank had cut out her tongue.

Well, I’ll tell you the two stories of the tongue, so our audience can pick. Annie was killed by the scientists, as we know. Clark finishes her off, and then they panic and they call the mine. The mine sends Hank, who has a corrupt relationship with the mine, to take care of the body. So he takes her out of the station and dumps her in a place close to the area of conflict between the mine and the hunters, the people that live of the land. And there, he mistreats the body. He’s the one that kicks the body. He’s the one that cuts the tongue.

And all of this is to make it look like it’s a message about the activism against the mine. In my many conversations with John, this is not something Hank enjoys. He disconnects, and it’s a job. It doesn’t mean that he doesn’t haunt him. But I do believe that there is a slight psychopathic streak in Hank to be able to do that violence to a woman. He leaves a tongue there, and walks away.

So what happened to that tongue? The version that will work for the people that will read the series as a completely rational story is that the tongue was found by the people of the village. And then the women who know everything knew that they couldn’t take care of Annie’s body in the way that they would like. So one of them keeps a tongue as an act of reverence and kindness to the body that is still going to go through a lot of indignities. They preserve the tongue. Danvers says in Episode 2 that the tongue has some unusual damage, which could be because of freezing. And then when the women come into the station, they leave the tongue as a sign that now is the time of the truth of storytelling — of our storytelling. The stories that Annie couldn’t tell and was silenced for are going to come to the light.

The other version of events is: Annie is left there, and the tongue is cut and the tongue disappears into thin air. And it is Annie who comes with the women into the station, like she’s awake. Clark says, “I knew she was coming.” Annie does visit the station with the women, and leaves her own tongue, because she knows this is how it starts — that she can finally tell her story.

So it’s up to you to decide.

Does the show “True Detective: Night Country” believe in the supernatural?

The women throw the men into the night and the cold, and they died of exactly of panic-induced hypothermia and self-harm because of the cold. Are we going to go with that? Or are we going to go with that they faced something they’d woken up in that bone chamber, and that finally came to “claim their souls,” as Bee says.

How did you decide to weave in references to Season 1 of “True Detective”? I nearly fell off my couch when Clark said, “Time is a flat circle.”

I think it’s very important to say that it happens in the same universe. In the same reality where the events of “Night Country” happened, those horrible murders in Louisiana happened. Every time that it felt organic, I connected them, just to create a common universe — to say, “It is the same place.” So the moment that I knew that Rose had a lover, and it was Alaska where Cohle’s father had died, I had to check the dates and be very sure that it was feasible age-wise for all the characters to work like that. It is not a central part of the story, but it’s nice to know that there is a certain connective tissue between those.

And if you have an evil corporation in the first season where politicians and powerful people are cooperating with the government, isn’t it interesting that they have an investment in the company that is founding the mine in this town? It doesn’t mean that they’re doing bad things everywhere. It’s just bad money, and bad money brings bad things.

Right after the show premiered, you went on Twitter and asked fans to leave a review on Rotten Tomatoes, because the “bros and hard-core fanboys of S1 have made it a mission to drag the rating down.” What has that part of this experience been like for you? And have you been paying attention to online discourse about the show?

To tell you the truth, at the very beginning it was a little discouraging to see a negative reaction. There’s people that don’t like the series — that’s OK! There’s people that I trust their opinion, that don’t like things that are sacred to me. But it was discouraging to see that at least a certain amount of those came from — well, automatic reactions , let’s call them. I felt that people that feel positive to it should also speak up.

I really very quickly understood that it was useless to think about those reactions, because those are not going to be changed. And the truth of the matter is the series has been massively and beautifully embraced by people that were both familiar with the original series, and people that were not familiar with the original series. By the reviews, by the ratings.

Which of these characters have been the hardest to say goodbye to, and would you ever want to do another season of “True Detective”?

But I think all of them went through a journey that is final. They find themselves at the end, and that’s when you have to let them go — like children — once they find themselves. But on the other hand, yes, I would do another one.

The luxury that this particular series presents is that what makes it is a tone, and a certain way of looking at the world, and to America. And it allows for an exploration of the dark and macabre that I love. So yes, for sure.

This interview has been edited and condensed.

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‘Community’: Season 4 of the NBC Comedy Ponders the End

Jace Lacob reviews Season 4 of the NBC comedy, which returns after many behind-the-scenes changes.

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Community , after an absence of what feels like five years and numerous timeslot and launch date changes , finally unveils its fourth season on Thursday. For the faithful, waiting this long to return to Greendale has been an arduous trial, particularly as curiosity is running high amid the many behind-the-scenes changes made since the show wrapped up its third season way back in May 2012.

For one, series creator Dan Harmon is no longer at the helm , after a well-publicized ouster that saw him as well as showrunners Neil Goldman and Garrett Donovan depart the NBC comedy. A handful of others—including writer/producer Chris McKenna (currently writing on Fox’s The Mindy Project ), executive producers/directors Anthony and Joe Russo, and actor/writer Dino Stamatopoulos (Starburns)—also exited stage left. In their place are new showrunners David Guarascio and Moses Port, perhaps best known for their work on the multi-camera workplace comedy Just Shoot Me and for creating the short-lived comedy Aliens in America .

Suffice it to say, fans of Community want to know: what does the show feel like without Harmon and Co. steering the plot? On a show so gonzo and absurd and generally out there, what does the loss of its creator mean?

It would be far easier to say if the (new) Community were a disaster or a masterpiece. However, the truth doesn’t fall at either end. Community now feels rather like it did during its first three seasons, with its sense of humor and bizarro-world energies intact. (That sense of sameness might be aided by longtime writer Andy Bobrow scripting the season opener, offering a sense of continuity.)

If there’s anything I noticed during the two episodes provided to press for review (the first and third installments, but not—oddly enough— Megan Ganz ’s Halloween episode, which airs on … Valentine’s Day), it’s that perhaps a spark that permeated the very best episodes of Community is missing. Perhaps that sense of mad genius came from Harmon himself or perhaps it can be regained once this new configuration of the Community writers finds their legs. But I can’t point to anything specific after two viewings. It doesn’t feel entirely off, but it feels as if not everyone came back from this prolonged summer break.

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. The Season 4 opener (“History 101”), written by Bobrow, and the third episode (“Conventions of Space and Time”), written by Maggie Bandur, both demonstrate a savvy and deft hand at juggling the metatheatrical underpinnings of the show.

“History 101” is particularly self-aware about the audience’s expectations, skewering fans’ preconceptions about the conventions of multi-camera comedies and the new showrunner team at play here. The episode imagines what the format of Community would be if it were filmed before a live studio audience, the jokes becoming suddenly far broader and more stereotypical, and followed by inane and hollow canned laughter. I don’t want to give away why multiple Greendales are at play within the episode, but I’ll say it involves Abed (Danny Pudi), television escapism, and a dawning realization that the gang’s time at Greendale is coming to an end.

Let that sink in for a second.

Characters, like real human beings, shouldn’t ever be static. They should grow and change and, in the case of this eccentric group, possibly go their separate ways. As far as the show is about the absurdist plots (zombie apocalypse! Paintball warfare! Parallel universes and causality!), it’s also about the emotional bonds that unite a group of people who likely would not be friends had they met anywhere other than Greendale, that chronically underfunded Skinner box of a community college.

When Community began, each of these characters was stuck. Jeff Winger (Joel McHale) started out as an obnoxious, self-centered jerk; his sacrifice in the Hunger Games -spoofing season opener points toward how much he’s changed and how he’s come to care about these oddballs. Annie (Alison Brie) was a perfectionist and overachiever who crashed and burned after an Adderall addiction. Shirley (Yvette Nicole Brown) wanted to find an identity outside motherhood. Troy (Donald Glover) had lost his football scholarship and sense of purpose. Abed (Pudi) was looking for connection. Britta (Gillian Jacobs) was a caustic activist searching for meaning. And Pierce (Chevy Chase) was bored. Like Jeff, each of them has grown and changed, finding a maturity or grounding that they were missing. (Except maybe for, well, Pierce.)

Both “History 101” and “Conventions in Space and Time” contain moments that advance the relationships between the characters. The bond between Troy and Abed is tested by the arrival of an Inspector Spacetime -obsessive ( Little Britain creator/star Matt Lucas) who shares more with Abed than just a love of the Doctor Who send-up. Annie imagines a life as “Mrs. Jeff Winger” and finally sees herself as Jeff’s equal. Britta navigates the awkwardness of her newfound romance with Troy, particularly around Abed. A trip to the Inspector Spacetime convention brings out these inner conflicts, magnifying them against a backdrop of the fictional and the surreal.

The inexorable sense of change apparent here is not only intentional but important. The writers seem to be well aware of the show’s situation at NBC and the real possibility that this could be the final season of Community . They might just be preparing the viewers to say goodbye in May, both to Greendale—which provides the show’s fluid premise and setting—and to these vibrant and strangely lovable characters as well.

Will I mourn the death of Community when it comes? Absolutely, but I also celebrate the show for taking—and continuing to take— risks with its storytelling . In an age of television sameness, of procedural conformity and lowest common denominator programming, Community has dared to be different

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If you’re enjoying watching Community for the first time, the anomaly of the fourth season might be a little bewildering. Where the rest of the show is witty, enjoyable and well-versed in pop culture without being obnoxious about it, season four is almost like an exaggeration of what came before, and yet if you can get through it, it becomes great again in season five.

For those of us more acclimatised to the volatile behind-the-scenes situation on the NBC show, you might remember that there was a season there where series creator and showrunner Dan Harmon was fired, only to be re-hired the following year in an unprecedented turnaround by the network.

With Harmon reinstated, season four looks even more like a blip. In universe, the whole season is referred to as “the gas leak year,” but in retrospect, is it totally indefensible as anything other than that? Did showrunners David Gurascio and Moses Port really do such a horrible job?

Harmon clearly didn’t have a very positive outlook when he finally watched the season himself, and the ensuing rant on his Harmontown podcast was extensively transcribed and quoted out of context in the online press. He has since apologized for the outburst, saying that it probably sounded very “un-Community” to the fans who had continued to support the show through to its fifth season. Still, there was one observation that rings true when you watch season four.

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Harmon told his audience: “It’s very much like an impression. And an unflattering one. [NBC] replaced us with two guys who didn’t know what they were getting into […] and then I think they tried their best.”

We’re not going to rake over everything Harmon said, given how he’s since been clearer on the matter- you can listen to his original comments on his podcast ( episode 60 ) or read his apology and clarifying remarks on his blog if you want more background. Frankly, it would be juicier if Harmon were to record commentaries on the season for a more balanced critique, but that seems pretty unlikely.

But to the immense credit of the interim showrunners, they did try, with the returning cast ensemble in their favor. As the study group’s fourth year at Greendale begins, Jeff is seeking a History credit from the cynical Professor Cornwallis (played by new regular Malcolm McDowell) so that he can graduate at the end of the semester, rather than the end of the year.

He also meets the father who abandoned him, a development that was teed up in the season three finale and shows how the showrunners tended to tug on any loose threads from the previous era. To that end, Britta and Troy are now dating, resulting in a relationship that feels like it fizzles out fairly quickly, even though it’s protracted over most of the run and then abruptly ended.

According to Harmon, “Inspector Spacetime fan convention” was one of the ideas left on the whiteboard when he was fired, and sure enough, the third episode of Gurascio and Port’s run, Conventions Of Space And Time , goes to an Inspector Spacetime convention and adds to the breadth of the in-show trivia about Abed’s favorite Doctor Who parody, without actually deepening it.

This is not an uncommon problem. Counter to the meticulous plotting and structure of the first three seasons, season four spins lots of plates in the air, but doesn’t really follow through on any of its minor arcs. The most unsatisfying of these was “Changnesia,” which came dangerously close to finally ruining Ken Jeong’s character for good.

Greendale’s insane Spanish teacher-cum-student-cum-security fascist was last seen trying to blow up the school and colluded with a rival college for revenge. The way Gurascio and Port choose to gloss over that comes in Advanced Documentary Filmmaking , in which we discover that he’s calling himself Kevin and he’s suffering from a type of amnesia that doesn’t stop you making forced puns.

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This happens in episode 6 of the 13-episode run, and is only fleetingly mentioned thereafter before an anti-climactic resolution in the penultimate episode. Chang was quite undefined as a character before then, sliding into mania from his initial personality as a sadistic Spanish teacher, but his “Kevin” phase was his most annoying, and the most typical sign of the season’s lackadaisical structure.

It’s hardly a relentlessly dreadful run and it’s obviously affected by the quality of what came before and the fact that fans will have gone into it with the expectation of hating the new regime after the way Harmon was treated by NBC. Although we’re going to look at the good parts, it also has all of the weakest episodes the series has ever produced, in quick succession.

The ninth episode, Intro To Felt Surrogacy , has almost no redeeming features. If the season is an unflattering impression of Dan Harmon, then this ninth episode is the worst of it. It rehashes much of season two’s Christmas episode Abed’s Uncontrollable Christmas , in which two-bit psychologist Professor Duncan helped Abed and the group express themselves in adorable stop-motion form, but has none of that episode’s wit or charm.

Standing in for Duncan, (if I were John Oliver and I read this one, I’d have said I was washing my hair all week) the Dean brings a bunch of puppets to help coax the study group out of an intensely awkward silence. After crashing a hot air balloon in the woods, (don’t ask) the group apparently ate some psychedelic berries dished out by a transient mountain man, (really, don’t ask) and revealed secrets that make it impossible to talk to one another.

These aren’t just throwaway incidents, mind you- apparently, Jeff courted a single mother and got close to her son only to abandon them, Shirley drove off in pursuit of someone she thought was her husband and left her kids in a grocery store overnight, and most offensively of all, Annie gave the pervy Cornwallis a foot rub in return for the answers to a test. All of this apparently happened off-screen, within the timeline covered by this season.

In a season with no follow-through, of course these big, utterly false character beats are simply never mentioned again. If we can just make one episode into a gas leak-induced nightmare, this would be the one – even if season six somehow falls below the standard we expect, it’s hard to imagine a point when Intro to Felt Surrogacy won’t be the worst episode of Community ever produced.

Some might take the holistic approach and blame the new-old regime’s season five for the lack of follow-through on what season four did. Harmon started back with a very soft reboot in the form of Repilot , which waves Changnesia away in a single line and begins a proper send-off for the departing Chevy Chase with a holographic cameo.

But Harmon did acknowledge and continue with the stuff that was good, even if it was just one character. The episode Herstory Of Dance is indubitably one of the highlights of the run, with Britta’s plans to hold a feminist dance in celebration of singer Sophie B. Hawkins (she meant activist Susan B. Anthony) in protest to another campus dance leading Abed to do the sitcom trope of dating two girls on the same night, changing his clothes and getting confused between them.

In the process, he gets close to genre-savvy coat check girl Rachel, perfectly played by Brie Larson, and the episode ends with the two of them agreeing to go on a real date sometime. Larson returned in guest spots through season five, now as Abed’s girlfriend.

Speaking of callbacks, Gurascio and Port also pulled off a decent sequel to one of the highlights of the previous season, Foosball And Nocturnal Vigilantism , by bringing back the antagonistic German students. In Alternative History Of The German Invasion , Cornwallis tries to teach the class that history is written by the winners, leading the Germans to take over the study room and attempt to restore their own supremacy over Jeff and co.

The episode is a take-off of Hogan’s Heroes , (which the Germans have seen, but call Hogan’s Villains ) and even if the tone is in the same slightly off-kilter register as the episodes around it, the hare-brained scheming and mildly jingoistic parody makes it one of the better callbacks of the run.

In terms of tone, it’s telling that Oscar-winning writer Jim Rash, who also plays the Dean, turned in the only script (other than Herstory Of Dance ) that could as easily have fit into one of the other four Harmon-led seasons. Basic Human Anatomy is a body-swap episode, wherein Abed and Troy wish to have each other’s life for just one day while both holding a Freaky Friday DVD, and decide to continue the bit for the following day.

This means a return for Danny Pudi and Donald Glover’s pitch-perfect impressions of one another, but Rash also gives himself an opportunity to play Joel McHale for a while when he fulfils the Dean’s deepest wish of “having Jeffrey inside of me.” It’s also a channel for Troy to work through his emotions concerning Britta, and as if the writing had been up to this standard all season, their break up would have been even more affecting.

Another notable point in season four is the penultimate episode Heroic Origins , which goes back to the beginning of the group’s respective stories and suggests that each of them, for better or for worse, was responsible for someone else enrolling in Greendale. It takes a certain amount of retconning, but it largely draws lines between what we already know about their backstories.

It’s in this regard that you can tell that Gurascio, Port and their writing staff are all aware of what the show is, but over the course of the whole season, you realise that while they could probably write an impeccable series bible or spec script, you wouldn’t necessarily want them to run the show all the time. Case in point – the preceding finale episode Advanced Introduction To Finality , is a hot mess of callbacks to the darkest timeline and paintball stuff, again lacking the nuance of earlier adventures.

The real stewards of this season are the cast. Even Chevy Chase , who slagged off the show during and after his time on it, is on form for the parts of the season where he actually shows up. The core group continued on to season five (at least for part of it) and when they say it overtly at the end of Heroic Origins , there’s something very reassuring about the notion that this cast playing these characters were “meant to be together.”

A year later, season five came back to great reviews and fan acclaim with Harmon reinstated. However, it limped on through low audience figures (it was scheduled opposite The Big Bang Theory , which has always been the broader of the two geek sitcoms) for one more season before NBC finally pulled the plug.

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But the Community mantra of “six seasons and a movie” has powered it to a sixth season online, with Yahoo! Screen releasing new episodes from March 17 th . Although we’re looking forward to it, this next run may have a harder job than season four, with new characters to introduce and only four of the original study group cast members (McHale, Pudi, Gillian Jacobs and Alison Brie) staying on for the whole season.

And unless there’s going to be a seventh season, Harmon’s sixth at the helm, there’s simply no excluding this run from that “six seasons and a movie” mantra. For all its faults, season four still has that tremendous ensemble cast, occasional glimpses of brilliance and only the occasional puppet-y pothole of doom.

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Community: What Went Wrong with Season 4

Community Season 4 stumbled before finding its footing again in Season 5. Here's what went wrong.

  • Characters' storylines and relationships lacked excitement and proper build-up in Community Season 4, impacting the overall plot and viewer satisfaction.
  • Jeff's graduation and departure from the study group created confusion and uncertainty for fans, especially when he later returned in Season 5.
  • The season finale failed to properly resolve the plot and character arcs, leading to a disappointing conclusion and missed opportunities for character growth.

Writers are the foundation of Hollywood. As we’ve seen through the ongoing strikes , when writers aren’t given their dues, they’ll walk. Behind every series or film are teams of highly creative writers who give beloved and hated characters alike their distinct voices. Not every writer reaches the acclaim they deserve, but they are the scapegoat for studios and fans alike. They are collectively put on the chopping block when a beloved show begins to fail, especially if a prolific writer leaves.

In the case of the hit comedy series Community , Season 4 is viewed by fans as the worst. At the center of the criticism is head writer Dan Harmon's departure from the series. Fans of the series blame the team of writers sans Harmon for the series’ strange arcs in this season. Between a puppet episode and Jeff graduating, the main issue fans have with the fourth season is that a lot of the build-up between characters and the overall plot are lacking in excitement.

The series maintains its humor, but it goes to show that it wasn’t a writer’s issue, rather possibly a studio issue. Here's what went wrong with Community Season 4.

Build-Up Didn’t Match Final Action

The Cast of Community in Season Four

Throughout Community , Jeff’s biggest struggle was his relationship with his father. In Season 4, he finally confronts him, but the let-down is that he returns to his old ways of making trouble. Pierce is the eldest of the group and competes with everyone throughout the series. He convinces everyone that his house is haunted, only for them to find out that he and his half-brother were pranking each other. Shirley and Annie were typically in conflict over morality, but in Season 4, their big argument was over who was better suited for Abed.

By the fourth season, it’s clear that Abed and Troy are inseparable. Though they both branch out, it is either short-lived or completely ignored in the series. Abed makes a friend through a message board that he tells Troy about, and even though his friend is a decent person, Troy gets seriously jealous of Abed having a friend. This aspect of their friendship was too dramatic and a big let-down since Troy had been in a separate romantic relationship for most of Season 4. Britta and Troy began dating, but their relationship was completely ignored, which is strange considering that everyone else’s romantic ventures were detailed and dramatic.

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Jeff’s Graduation

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Jeff is the main reason the study group has stayed together throughout the early seasons of Community . Initially, he planned on doing what he needed to earn his credits and return to being a lawyer. Each season, Jeff broke down the wall he built to keep others out. Through the friendships the study group built, he became a decent person. Even though he fell back into old patterns after confronting his father in Season 4, Jeff still managed to deliver a heartfelt speech once he graduated. He revealed to his friends that through their friendship he became a better man.

After graduating, he opened up a law firm, which solidified his departure. Yet he was announced to be returning for Community Season 5 as the school’s main law professor. While this wasn’t necessarily known when the fourth season ended, fans who had said goodbye to Jeff were now having to anticipate if he would return again. This revolving door allowed for Joel McHale to announce the Community movie, which he tells IGN is like a family reunion without the people you want to avoid.

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A Flop of a Finale

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Regardless of how many episodes are in a season, the problems presented in the first half begin to be resolved during the second half. By the season finale, everything is exposed. This unveiling then opens a new set of complexities to be solved in the following season. Characteristically, Community ’s season finale follows the rest of the season: all the build-up with little follow-through.

Instead of characters experiencing realizations in the season finale, these realizations occurred throughout the season instead. In the first episode of Community, Annie remembers Troy from high school, but he denies knowing her. When Jeff is about to graduate, Abed creates a timeline for him to prove that the study group was destined to be lifelong friends. This occurs in the episode before the season finale, which is important because the biggest revelation occurs here.

Troy, helping his best friend, admits that he not only remembers Annie for more than her nickname in high school, but that he purposefully injured himself to stop playing football. With a revelation like this, a season finale showing Jeff graduation being interrupted by evil doppelgängers is an epic fail.

Chang’s Arc

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In the first season of Community , Señor Ben Chang is the ruthless professor of Spanish, the course where the study group meets. Over the course of the third season, Chang had been demoted to a security officer, houseless, and then became the college’s dictator after overthrowing Dean Pelton. Later, he quickly burned through the school’s funds and resumes living in the school’s vents again.

At the beginning of Season 4, Chang is absent for the first two episodes, and upon his return, he had assumed a new identity. As Kevin, Chang claimed to have "Changnesia," a form of amnesia that made him forget his original identity as Ben. Nearly everyone is skeptical of Kevin since it wouldn’t be uncommon for Chang to pull such an elaborate prank.

In addition to this being revealed as a ruse within a couple episodes, the Changnesia didn’t sit well with fans. While Chang is an erratic character, pretending to have a serious condition that was used to commit fraud by the college’s board members was a twist that couldn’t be undone.

The Puppet Episode

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Every once in a while, a popular series will pay homage to other genres, hit TV shows or movies, or a parallel universe. In the episodes revolving around a parallel universe, this is often a dream or conscious imagining of a particular character. Another frequent genre that is honored is the musical. Hollywood claims that a parallel universe episode of Community was proof that the series had entered into the Dark Ages.

During the episode entitled "Intro to Felt Surrogacy," a parallel universe where everyone is puppets is dreamed up by Abed. Considering that Abed has a deep love for pop culture, this is no surprise. Except that he isn’t inspired by pop culture, but the Dean who attempts to fix a rift within the group using hand puppets that look like everyone.

In addition to the puppets, which aren’t that brazen considering the series’ comedic stylings, the musical aspect revealed the group has done horrific things, like abandoning loved ones, without remorse. The group also ends up in a hot air balloon that crashes where they are rescued by a mountain man who later leaves them to sit around a camp fire in the woods. For fans, these elements could have worked, but it was scattered and disturbing.

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Community Recap: When (Evil) Timelines Collide

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Community Season 4 Finale Recap

Through paintball shootouts, darkest timelines and a unique wedding of sorts, the Greendale gang — and their respective “evil” counterparts — finished out the school year. Here’s how it all went down:

Just like Donna Martin, Jeff Winger graduates! The Greendale Community College alpha male learns that he’s passed History, which means it’s time to receive a diploma. Added bonus: His old law firm buddy offers him a new job, which he graciously accepts. Excited and, per usual, overeager, Annie and Dean Pelton decide to throw what Abed calls a “wedding/graduation mashup” party in his honor.

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But before Jeff puts his party shoes on, he reveals to Britta that he’s worried that the group, particularly Abed, won’t be able to handle things without him. (A little conceited, sure, but this is who Jeff Winger is and we love him for it.) Britta, however, assures him that her continued “therapizing” of the pop culture fiend has worked wonders — in fact, he hasn’t even brought up the darkest timeline during his “sessions” in months! So, as a means of gauging Abed’s reaction, Jeff rolls a die… and, unbeknownst to anyone, evil one-armed Jeff and evil bitchy Annie pop up to “save Jeff from the smothering teet of the study group.”

Abed, being the one who essentially created the darkest timeline, runs into Evil Jeff and immediately recognizes him — even without a goatee. Unfortunately, he’s no foil for the baddie, who — now, stick with us — immediately transports Abed to said timeline via a timeline-traveling paintball gun. (True story.)

Once in the new land, Abed encounters his darker self, but — game changer! — Evil Abed is no longer evil. The reformed villain confesses that, after his previous encounter with Abed, he let go of his old ways and “devoted his life to brightening his timeline.” (Side note: NBC ‘s ill-fated The Cape is still alive and kickin’ in this world, thanks to a cable retooling!)

Back in real Greendale, Jeff and Evil Jeff come face-to-face, but before the latter can send our leading man out of this world, Chang arrives and sacrifices himself in the name of “ friendshiiiiiiiip .” Abed, meanwhile, reappears — with the ‘Doppledeaner’ in tow as proof to the gang that the darkest timeline isn’t imaginary — and a war between the two crews ensues.

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Shirley, Annie and Troy get rid of their evil selves via a toned down paintball shootout, while Evil Britta brittas the game and sends herself back to her world. While taking cover from the nutty goings on, Abed (literally) slaps some sense into Jeff, revealing that none of this is actually real. Rather, Jeff has created this scenario in his head as a way to avoid graduating and thus leaving the group behind.

Having “defeated” the evils, Jeff — followed shortly thereafter by Pierce — graduates. “I’m so used to being the guy who can talk his way out of everything, but what do you say when you don’t want a way out?” an emotional Jeff ponders to the group at his party. “My love for you is immeasurable, even when you split it seven ways.”

Jeff’s post-Greendale plans: to find a small law firm and help all of the little guys out there.

LINE OF THE NIGHT | “I’m going to miss our playful ‘get-a-room-already’ banter.” — Dean Pelton to the graduating object of his affections Jeff

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It was ok, the ending was nice, but Pierce’s final send off was dissapointing to say the least.

Pierce has been the disappointment of the show 90% of the time, so it fit.

90% of the time in season 4, you mean?

He’s been absent 90% of season 4. He’s been a disappointment about 60% of the series.

Thank you for recapping Megan! :)

It can’t end like that, it just can’t! I don’t want it to! Don’t let it! SIXSEASONSANDAMOVIE!

I feel you are holding out on us on Renewal/Cancellation news – not even a hint? I need to know which timeline I am living in.

My current theory is that they’re gonna wait to make that decision till they see what the over night numbers are

according to ign we could know as early as 24 hours from now.

Too funny, your favorite line of the night was also mine. How they walk the tight rope with the Dean’s character is incredible. I really hope tonight is not the last episode of this show. Tonight was outstanding and original. Most importantly, Community is great because it can have an ‘evil timeline’. I am bored to death of standard sitcoms. Whether it is one camera for four camera, a sitcom needs incredible writing, ala MFamily, Frazier, Cheers to be more then a regular sitcom. I will watch TBBT later tonight off of my DVR but it is soooo unoriginal and I really just watch to see how each character’s arc turns out. But they have not done an interesting idea since the Halloween costume episode a few season back.

Terrible. Just terrible.

Was it “just terrible,” Liz? Care to elaborate? Let me get you started… “Dan Harmon blah blah blah…”

No actually. But here, have a cookie for your assumptions.

I was one of the hopeful ones after Harmon departed, if you must know. But according to you, people can’t have a negative opinion about Community that isn’t directly linked to Harmon leaving. Go away. I have no desire to elaborate with someone like you.

Sounds like you do have a negative opinion linked to Harmon leaving. If you actually have a different reason, you probably should elaborate instead of resorting to name calling.

Hmm. I don’t see any sign of name calling in my reply? Can you point me to it?

I have issues with people telling me I dislike this season just because it wasn’t created by Harmon. Everywhere I go, I can’t possibly dislike something just because it’s bad. No. It’s only because Harmon didn’t helm this season. That’s really unfair. Some of the episodes Harmon did were terrible too. I’m not his huge supporter and I’m just fed up of people assuming that I am just because I haven’t enjoyed season 4.

You want me to elaborate? The show has fallen back on past jokes and tropes to see it through, so much that it’s become overused and lost any originality it once had. Each character is just a regression now, almost like a cartoon version of themselves. The pacing is off, the jokes aren’t funny any more and it felt so rushed and overstuffed with all these different timelines and themes when it should have just been about a man scared of graduating. Simplicity would have made this ten times better.

Well put Liz! I’ve actually kept my opinions to myself most of this season because any time I mention not liking it I get the “You must love Dan Harmon speech” My dislike had nothing to do with Dan Harmon leaving – like you said, he had some stinkers too. This season just wasn’t funny and original. I actually liked a few episode, but overall it was a let down.

Right there with you, Liz. I too was hopeful after Harmon’s departure but sadly the show is just not what it once was. I tend to think that the loss of Harmon has something to do with it, but not everything. Much as I love him, Joel McHale seems to be phoning it in at this point and without Chase and some decent storylines for the gang, it’s just time to stop. So yes, terrible. Just terrible.

Agreed about Joel McHale. Donald Glover seemed that way too. I think it’s time to stop.

I think McHale and Glover are doing the best they can with poorly thought out and written material. The only person I would say has phoned anything in is Chevy.

Once again Megan Ganz wrote an awesome episode. #SixSeasonsAndAMovie

I really hope Community is renewed. There is absolutely nothing like it on TV. Please NBC renew this awesome show!!

A nice season finale to a pretty disappointing season. The only episode that had the old school Community feeling was the one with Brie Larson. I did enjoy when Abed and Troy switched bodies though. I hope it gets renewed, but i wont cry if it doesn’t.

I laughed out loud that in the darkest timeline The Cape made it to season 3.

That made me laugh, too :D. It was good. Parts of it I liked more than others (I loved the idea of them encountering the evil versions of themselves, and bringing back the paintball thing, but I wasn’t too big on the way the paintball stuff went down this time around-I think in some ways that storyline would’ve worked better had they made this an hour-long episode). But the ending was really sweet and touching (yeah, I got a bit misty, I confess), and the idea of somehow making the graduation similar to a wedding? Um. Okay :p. Ah, Greendale, don’t ever stop being a crazy place…

Best line was Annie (to Evil Annie): “Nobody sleeps with Jeff. Not even me.”

YES YES YES! That was a great, funny poke at the previous will they won’t they storyline.

Loved it. Loveditloveditlovedit! Sixseasonsandamovie!!

Was anyone able to decipher everything that was written on the chalkboard? I’ll admit it, The Six Seasons And A Movie made me tear up. And I’m pretty sure Dan Harmon’s name was on there…

Or what was written on the whiteboard in the study room?

It says “Hey everyone Happy Oct 19th! Glad you could join us back in the study room. Welcome back K.Otter.”

Welcome back Kotter! What does this meeeeean?!

the best line wasn’t a line it was the fact that on the chalkboard it said six seasons and a movie, this was the first episode where it truly felt like Community from the past three season

It was a great episode, but why was the whole Chang/City College story from last week scrapped? I was expecting some resolution to that and (hopefully) Greendale to be saved, but no mention of it. Hopefully NBC does the right thing and renews it, even if only for another 13 episodes…

Excellent point! For the show that’s never left any storyline unresolved, they sure blew it there.

If Community does get renewed they could explore City College’s Plan B. Jeff will probably be Greendale’s lawyer or something.

Who’s Donna Martin? Did she graduate from Greendale in a previous season?

Really??? REALLY??? Donna Martin, character on the original 90210.

I liked the episode, but I felt it was rushed. I can see they wanted to get a lot into the half hour, but they really could have easily been stretched it out to an hour.

It would be a shame to lose this show. It is rare when a sitcom like this can break into full-on fantasy territory. Scrubs and 30 Rock had their nonreality moments, but Community is unique in taking fantastic scenarios – space camp, paintball wars, timeline shifts, pillow forts, even muppets – and running with them as if they all happen in the real world. If this was a sendoff, it was too rushed. I kept thinking in the opening scene – “You’ve got 22 minutes, Community – who’s this lawyer guy we are wasting 4 of them on??”

Also – what was Chang’s evil plan the whole season? Did I miss something?

I feel if Community would have had a full season it would have gradually improved. I enjoyed the last couple of episodes compared to the beginning. They needed more time to find the voice this year, but didn’t get a chance. It was still a great finale.

Agreed! It took them a little bit to find their footing, but the last couple have been really good.

I dream of a fifth season with Dan Harmon back, Jim Rash and Megan Ganz still writers, Chavy Chase gone. Anyway the finale was crazy enough to like it.

Great episode! It ended in a very classic Community way, if it doesn’t get renewed it worked very nicely as a series finale and if it does, obviously there’s more story there. Had just enough of everything.

this episode makes me wonder why megan ganz wasnt put in charge of the whole season, she was always the best writer the show had through the years. i enjoyed the episode a lot, felt like a nice end to the season or end to the show if needs be. sure this season hasnt been as good as the last few but it has been nearly there and i still enjoy it so i would like to see more.

I enjoyed this episode! I think it will lead into next season nicely. It’s just nice to have some episodes where I don’t feel like the characters are all terrible people (which, in my opinion, is where Dan Harmon was leading it).

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The show stormed out of the gate strong with Amy Ryan , Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Tina Fey , and Sting among the notable supporting cast.

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As for Season 2, Amy Schumer , Shirley MacLaine, Cara Delevingne , and Paul Rudd were among the stars to feature in the series.

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Meanwhile, Season 3 upped the ante with even more Paul Rudd , as well as the likes of Meryl Streep , Ashley Park, and Jesse Williams.

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While it's unknown which supporting characters will return for Season 4 — as the new season will be partially set in Los Angeles — a few notable additions (as well as one official returning actor) have been announced:

Molly shannon.

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Deadline reported on Feb. 14 that The White Lotus  alum is joining the series in a recurring role as a "high powered LA business woman" who involves herself in the murder of Sazz (Jane Lynch).

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Variety reported on Feb. 15 that Meryl Streep is coming back to Only Murders in the Building  to play Loretta Dunkin. She first began playing the character, an actress, in Season 3.

Eva Longoria

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Variety reported on Feb. 22 that the multi-hyphenate is joining the series in an undisclosed role.

This article will be updated as more Season 4 casting announcements are made public.

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Community: Why Each Original Cast Member Left the Show

Community is one of the best sitcoms in recent memory but suffered from key cast members leaving the show throughout its six turbulent seasons.

Community was one of the most creative sitcoms of the 2010s, but the show suffered with key members of the original cast departing the project throughout the seasons. Created by Dan Harmon, also known for the hit animated series Rick & Morty , Community goes through the chaotic academic life of a suspended lawyer and his study group at Greendale Community College.

Harmon himself attended a community college in his younger years, collecting personal experiences that formed the basis of his comedy series. Community aired for six seasons and has a movie on the way, finally accomplishing the prophecy of "Six Seasons and a Movie" uttered by Abed, one of the main characters, in Season 2. Filled with great pop culture references and memorable theme episodes, Community was also known for its stellar cast, which unfortunately withered away as the show went on.

John Oliver Left Community in Season 3 to Focus on Other Projects

  • John Oliver played Ian Duncan, Greendale Community College's psychology professor.

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John Oliver was introduced as one of the major characters of Community in the early episodes, but his presence in the show grew increasingly infrequent until he disappeared completely. He played Ian Duncan, a psychology professor at Greendale Community College. Alcoholic, incompetent, and hilariously condescending, Duncan was one of the reasons why the show's dry humor worked so well, and the chemistry between him and the morally ambiguous Jeff Winger was one of the best parts of Season 1. The character is pretty much the reason why Jeff enrolled in Greendale in the first place; the two met in the past when Duncan's drinking problems got him into a legal mess. An active attorney at the time, Jeff saved him, but the favor wasn't returned by Duncan when his old pal asked him for a diploma.

Like Oliver, his British origins played a key part in his personality. The actor is best known as a comedian, responsible for writing renowned comedy shows such as The Daily Show and Last Week Tonight with John Oliver . The latter represents the biggest success in the actor's career and was recently renewed for three more seasons. The show consists of Oliver going over the latest global news with a caustic sense of humor.

Duncan mysteriously disappeared in Seasons 3 and 4 but later returned to explain he had to take a leave of absence to take care of his ill mother. Truth is, Oliver decided to focus on his two successful shows following Community's third season. During Season 4, Harmon was temporarily fired from his own show which explains why so many of his ideas were thrown away. With the creator's return in Season 5, Oliver once again became a recurring character, but it was just another goodbye: the actor didn't return for the show's sixth and final season.

Chevy Chase Was Fired From Community After s Racial Slur on Set

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  • Chevy Chase played Pierce Hawthorne, the show's biggest frenemy and a member of Jeff Winger's study group.

Chevy Chase reached peak frenemy status with Pierce Hawthorne in Community , an inconvenient old man with a sharp tongue. Apart from the clear age discrepancy between Pierce and the other members of Jeff's study group, he's also quite rich for a community college student: most of his money comes from his father's legacy in Hawthorne Wipes. Pierce found himself alone and unhappy in his older years and decided to enroll in Greendale to amp up his social life.

Chase was a great addition to the cast due to his character's bitter humor, but ironically, he seemed to have a lot in common with Pierce's criticizing nature. His name certainly helped attract more viewers to Community, given his movie star status: Chase starred in a number of successful comedies in the '80s, including the National Lampoon’s Vacation series, Caddyshack , and ¡Three Amigos! . Unfortunately, the actor clashed with Harmon for creative differences multiple times.

The official reason why Chase left Community was a racial slur he used on set while on a rant. Following the incident, NBC agreed that it would be best to cut him from the rest of Season 4. From playing down his co-stars to refusing to play key scenes, Chase had always been a difficult person on set, and his departure had been a long time coming. In what became one of Community 's darkest storylines , Pierce passes away shortly after he and his study group friends graduate from Greendale.

Donald Glover Left Community to Pursue a Musical Career

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  • Donald Glover played Troy Barnes, the youngest man in the group and Abed's best friend.

Nowadays, Donald Glover stands out as the most popular name in the cast of Community , but it hasn't always been like that. He was introduced as one of the main characters in the cast, Troy Barnes, a young man whose head was still in high school. He was the star quarterback and a success among girls, but the bond he develops with Abed leads Troy to unleash the nerd within him. Abed and Troy's friendship is one of the best of any sitcom, which makes Troy's eventual absence all the more upsetting.

Glover joined Community in 2009 and was still a rising star at the time. In 2011, he released his first Hip Hop album under the artist name of Childish Gambino. It wasn't an immediate success, but earned enough attention for his breakthrough musical project, the album "Because the Internet." Two meaningful Grammy nominations gave the actor the green light he needed to pursue his musical career, and Glover departed Community in Season 5 after a memorable farewell episode, "Geothermal Escapism," the fifth episode of Season 5.

Glover's decision was painful for fans and for the actor himself, who always demonstrated fondness towards Community and his character. His absence was arguably the most difficult to counterbalance throughout the seasons, Troy and Abed pretty much completed each other, and having one without the other drastically impacted the show's dynamics. Glover grew increasingly popular in both the TV and music industry: as of 2024, he has won 5 Grammys and is the star of the Mr. & Mrs. Smith TV show.

Yvette Nicole Brown Left Community to Take Care of Family

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  • Yvette Nicole Brown played Shirley Bennett, the last original cast member of Jeff Winger's study group to leave Community.

Following Season 5's finale, Community met a turbulent moment caused by NBC's decision to cancel the show due to low ratings. Thankfully, the up-and-coming streaming service Yahoo! Screen tried to save the show with a reboot and brought it back for a sixth season, but with most actor's contracts expiring, the new season turned out to be the last. Amid the chaos, Yvette Nicole Brown, another original member of Jeff's study group, decided to leave the show in order to take care of her sick father.

Brown played Shirley Bennett, a divorced, independent woman whose passion for Christianity and bitterness towards the study group's toxicity led to some of Community 's funniest moments. She stuck with the original cast until Season 6 when she announced she would be exiting the series to stay closer to her family. Passionate about Shirtley, Brown returned for the Season 6 premiere for a proper farewell and for the show's final episode.

What Original Cast Members Are Returning for the Community Movie?

  • Every member of the original study group lineup is returning for the Community movie, except Pierce.

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In September 2022, Community 's "And A Movie" was confirmed to be finally happening and coming to Peacock. Recent updates from Harmon indicate the script is nearly wrapped and production is in advanced development. However, what fans really want to know is whether they will finally see the show's beloved original cast finally reunited.

So far, all the members of Jeff's study group are confirmed to return for the Community movie, except Chase's Pierce, as expected. Glover was the last one to confirm , and he didn't fail fans of the show this time. As for Oliver and other supporting characters, many names are yet to be confirmed, but Ken Jeong's Ben Chang and Jim Rash's Deal Pelton are reportedly on board.

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We said WRITER, not show-runner.  We'd have put a lot more fanfare into this were it to mean that tragedy had been averted, Sony TV and NBC realized their mistake and Dan Harmon had no longer been ousted from our beloved ' Community .'  Still, there is good news to come out of this whole debacle, yet another ray of hope that 'Community' season 4 will still have at least some of its old spark.

In spite of all the writer / producer turnover to come out of 'Community' this past year, including the departures of executive producers Neil Goldman and Garrett Donovan, writer/producer Chris McKenna, actor/writer Dino Stamatopoulos, and frequent episode directors and executive producers Anthony and Joe Russo, writer Megan Ganz has confirmed via her Twitter that she will in fact remain for the next (potentially final) run of 'Community' episodes this fall.

What say you? Can you enjoy 'Community' without Dan Harmon, or is the writing staff nothing without the show's creator? Give us your take in the comments below!

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At last, October 19th is nearly upon us. And by "October 19th," I mean February 7, which is the re-scheduled date for the fourth season premiere of Community . Fans of the series have been anticipating this day for months (and then a few more months after that). We cheered when they renewed it and gasped when we learned that series creator Dan Harmon would no longer be the showrunner. We cringed when they told us the comedy was being moved to Fridays in the fall. We cringed again when we saw that it was being paired with Whitney , a show with which it has very little in common. Writers David Guarascio and Moses Port were set as the new showrunners and some of the other writers left.

Fall arrived, and just when we were within sight of October 19th, the comedy was pulled from NBC's schedule. Cringe again. But then, some good news (kind of): Community would return to Thursdays, but we have to wait until February, after 30 Rock wraps up. Also, it's still on against the ratings vortex that is The Big Bang Theory , which means - pardon my pessimism - we probably shouldn't expect a noticeable increase in viewers. The timeline has its dark spots, but if we wanted to take an optimistic approach we might say that this one may have been the only timeline that allowed Community to return at all. And if that's the case, we'll take it.

The anticipation of the series' return was mind-bending enough to make me want to crawl into Troy and Abed's Dreamatorium and visit an elsewhere/time until I could watch the premiere. I have now seen the premiere and I've also seen the third episode of the season. NBC didn't send the second, but since the third episode has to do with Inspector Spacetime , I sort of approve of their choice to jump reviewers into the future by one episode, leaving us to wait with everyone else to see how the Season 4 premiere cliffhanger picks up. Yes! A cliffhanger! I won't spoil that with specifics, though there is a clue buried somewhere in the recent trailer , for those of you who don't want to wait.

At this point, I'll offer you the mildest of spoiler warnings. I have no intention of giving up the best moments the premiere has to offer, so if you're spoiler shy, rest assured, I'll treat this review delicately. With that said, some basic plot and character developments will be mentioned.

"History 101" is split between Jeff's ( Joel McHale ) determination to win a spot in the sole history class available that semester, and Abed (Danny Pudi) trying to mentally process the fact that this is the study group's last first day of school. That split is made particularly apparent by the fact that Abed's attempts to come to grips with reality takes him a bit further away from reality, which - as you probably know - is where Abed shines brightest. Look forward to that. Meanwhile, the Dean (Jim Rash) has set up a very Dean-focused competition in the style of a very popular movie from last year, only with more balls involved.

The first episode of the season re-introduces us to the characters, treading into familiar territory with new shenanigans. Shirley ( Yvette Nicole Brown ) and Annie (Alison Brie) are teamed up for a mission Annie sets upon in anticipation of her senior year. And Troy (Donald Glover) and Britta (Gillian Jacobs) have a disagreement that gets out of hand. Pierce (Chevy Chase) is set aside, trapped in his own thoughts in a less literal way than Abed. With the characters somewhat split up or paired off, there isn't a lot of time to focus on anyone in particular, but there are some great jokes, and as I mentioned, the episode works as a re-introduction to the group as they embark upon their final year at Greendale Community College.

"Conventions of Space and Time" includes guest appearances by Matt Lucas ( Little Britain , Bridesmaids ) and Tricia Helfer ( Battlestar Galactica ) and takes the group out of school entirely, as Troy and Abed go to the Inspector Spacetime convention to celebrate their love of the Doctor Who -like sci-fi series. They're joined by the rest of the study group, though - as you can imagine - not everyone fits in nearly as well as they do. But each of the characters finds something to do there. Shirley and Pierce's arc is funny, but Annie's adventures may be my favorite side story of the episode. Without giving any specifics away, I'll just say that we've seen how weird Annie can get when her imagination and identity issues get the better of her. Things get dramatic for her in this episode. And Troy and Abed's friendship is once again put to the test.

Losing its showrunner could have had drastic consequences on the show, and two episodes isn't really enough to say whether or not Harmon's departure was the end of Community as we knew it. The series has had three seasons to define itself, and the first and third episode of the season seem to tap into that definition, delivering more of the whacky hijinks and ridiculous antics that we've come to expect from this likable batch of college misfits, while also continuing to tell their stories. Beyond the hijinks, at its core, Community has always been about a group of characters finding one another while searching for their own identities, told with humor and nostalgic homages to pop culture. The formula may not have yielded the spectacular ratings the series deserves, but it has earned fans' steadfast devotion through the years. The start of the season indicates that it'll stick to that, and hopefully we'll see more of what we've known and come to love from this show as the season progresses.

Community Season 4 premieres Thursday, February 7 at 8:00 p.m. ET on NBC.

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New modes, Hellfire Gala suits, and accessibility features, plus suits created in collaboration with Gameheads.

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We cannot explain to you how grateful we have been for everyone who has picked up Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 over the holiday season. Everyone here at Insomniac Games is proud of the game, and we’re very excited to share details with you about the major title update that will hit your PS5 console on March 7

Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 version 1.002 will bring New Game+ to the game. We know many of you have been eager to replay the game on a harder difficulty, with all your suits and abilities carrying over. Or perhaps you want to just replay a favorite mission or two – you can do that, too! And there’s more to unlock – with Ultimate Levels, Golden Gadget styles, and more!

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Speaking of styles: we’ve added suit styles for several of Peter’s symbiote story suits in the game, allowing you to further customize your look if you play and unlock them via New Game+ Ultimate Levels. And yes, you’ll be able to set which color your symbiote abilities are as well. But we couldn’t just stop at new styles – we know how much you all love when we add suits with no additional cost to the game. You’re in luck – we’ve brought Marvel’s Hellfire Gala suits to the game for both Peter and Miles. Peter sports the design created by Russell Dauterman, and Miles gets his iconic look from Bernard Chang’s gorgeous Hellfire Gala variant cover for Miles Morales: Spider-Man #8.

And you’ll want to show those looks off as much as possible with our updates to Photo Mode – including action figure mode and stickers. You’ll also be able to change the time of day once you complete the story, allowing you to get all those cool Photo Mode shots with just the right lighting. Make sure you share them with us on social by using the #InsomGamesCommunity hashtag!

This update also contains some major updates for Accessibility. We’ve added Audio Descriptions** and Screen Reader** to the game. We know that these features were highly anticipated, and we’re thankful to the community for giving us a little extra time to ensure they were polished and ready to be released. We also have additional features like Cinematic Captions and High Contrast Outlines, among several new features added to this update.

We’re also excited to announce two new suits for Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 that Insomniac Games, Marvel Games, and Gameheads have partnered to create. Early access to the Fly N’ Fresh suits will be available for $4.99. Starting March 7,2024 and continuing through April 5, 2024, PlayStation will donate $4.99 (100% of the purchase price) of each Fly N’ Fresh Suit Pack in the United States to Gameheads , up to $1 million*. We appreciate your help in supporting Gameheads’ mission of empowering low-income youth and youth of color to thrive in the video games industry. Don’t worry, we don’t plan to start charging for suits in Marvel’s Spider-Man 2; the Fly N’ Fresh Suit Pack will be available for at no additional cost to all players at a later date.

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Fly N’ Fresh Suit Pack includes;

  • Fly Suit for Peter
  • Fresh Suit for Miles
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  • 2 photo mode frames

Working with Gameheads as part of our efforts to increase representation in the videogame industry is an important cause to us. Insomniac Games President Ted Price shares more in this video:

To talk more about our collaboration with Gameheads, I sat down with Malia Atta, Insomniac’s Manager of Culture and Belonging, Damon Packwood, Director of Gameheads, and Eric Monacelli, Senior Director, Product and Franchise Development at Marvel Games for more insight.

What is Gameheads?

Damon Packwood: “We develop diverse talent and bold new voices in gaming, train students for the tech ecosystem and prepare them for college, career and civic life. We serve low-income students, and underrepresented students (ages 15-25) in 15 different states with expansions to Honolulu and Atlanta.  

What is the origin of the Gameheads and Insomniac partnership?

Malia Atta: “Gameheads has been a partner of SIE for many years; however, the partnership with Insomniac Games began when we brought on three apprentices in our Core Technology, People Experience, and Design departments. Each apprentice made meaningful contributions to the game, and we saw an awesome opportunity to support and elevate the Gameheads Mission by asking their artists to design suits for Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 .”

That sounds really great – what’s the goal?

Malia Atta: “The partnership benefits both Insomniac and Gameheads by providing our teams with opportunity to mentor, coach, and develop emerging talent who then infuse fresh ideas and energy into our games and culture. This partnership also makes way for more people from different backgrounds to gain access to the industry.

From a bigger picture, Insomniac Games is focused on creating a supportive, vibrant, and diverse environment that reflects our players and communities. We are currently focused on uplifting and amplifying the voices of our devs and allowing them to bring their unique voices and gifts to how we make games.”

Eric Monacelli: “Our creative collaboration with Insomniac values fostering a world of belonging via our characters in our video games. The Gameheads initiative is a real-world manifestation of this. Marvel has always been about reflecting the world outside one’s world authentically, especially in ways that make creative endeavors and Marvel storytelling more accessible, diverse, and inclusive.”

What was the process like collaborating and iterating on the suit designs?

Damon Packwood:  “We had a great time working with (Insomniac artists) Bobby Hernandez, Johnson Truong and Davison Carvalho. We had six of our students creating iterations for the suit and stickers over the summer. The process was pretty professional. Our students went through 1-2 week sprints, showcased their artwork to the Insomniac team, got feedback and after a few weeks we settled on a concept. Once the concept was approved, each of the students picked a different aspect of the suit (shoes, texture, mask, web shooters) and we finalized the suit and the stickers in August.”  

Tell us more about the final Fly N’ Fresh designs:

Damon Packwood: “The inspiration for Miles Morales’ Fresh Suit design was a 90’s b-boy. Peter Parker’s Fly Suit design was inspired by 90s television’. Marisa Diaz, who designed the suits, was just having fun. We never expected Insomniac to like it but it was definitely fun to design. Our designers had fun being silly and the older folks, me and the Insomniac crew, had fun reminiscing on our 90’s fashion choices.” 

That’s all for now! Thanks to everyone for all of your support, and we can’t wait to see you swinging back through Marvel’s New York in your Hellfire Gala and Fly N’ Fresh suits while checking out New Game+!

Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 is available now, only on the PS5 console.

* PlayStation will donate $4.99 per pack sold in the United States from March 7, 2024  through April 5, 2024  to Gameheads up to $1 million via its fiscal sponsor, Community Initiatives. This purchase is not tax deductible. Community Initiatives is tax exempt. https://communityinitiatives.org/ .   Gameheads is not tax exempt. https://gameheadsoakland.org/

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The Donald Glover-starring college comedy was knowing and surreal, before puppets and gas leaks made viewers want to play hooky

Greendale Community College, setting for Dan Harmon’s almost-too-smart-for-its-own-good sitcom Community, was the sort of school that offered courses in the history of ice-cream, theoretical PE, and an intriguing module called “Will it fry?” For three glorious seasons, fans watched a quirky band of life’s losers form a surrogate family in a college whose flag resembled a bumhole (motto: E pluribus anus).

The show centred on a study group thrown together accidentally by Joel McHale’s disgraced ex-lawyer Jeff Winger. “I thought you had a bachelor’s from Columbia?” a friend remarked in season one. “And now I have to get one from America. And it can’t be an email attachment,” Jeff replied, utilising his potent blend of sarcasm and smarm. Greendale’s other washed-up misfits ranged from Alison Brie ’s suffocatingly driven Annie Eddison (“It’s called a stress headache – I got my first one when I was four”) to Chevy Chase’s endearingly bigoted Pierce Hawthorne. Together with the rest of a cast of outcasts, including Donald Glover’s vacant Troy, they formed an ensemble sitcom with heart and brains in the style of 30 Rock and Scrubs.

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Chris Diamantopoulos, Alex Schemmer, and Alex Klein in Community (2009)

S4.E4 ∙ Alternative History of the German Invasion

Joel McHale and Gillian Jacobs in Community (2009)

S4.E5 ∙ Cooperative Escapism in Familial Relations

Ken Jeong in Community (2009)

S4.E6 ∙ Advanced Documentary Filmmaking

Chevy Chase, Joel McHale, and Jim Rash in Community (2009)

S4.E7 ∙ Economics of Marine Biology

Danny Pudi and Donald Glover in Community (2009)

S4.E8 ∙ Herstory of Dance

Donald Glover in Community (2009)

S4.E9 ∙ Intro to Felt Surrogacy

Ken Jeong, Joel McHale, and Danny Pudi in Community (2009)

S4.E10 ∙ Intro to Knots

Jim Rash, Yvette Nicole Brown, and Alison Brie in Community (2009)

S4.E11 ∙ Basic Human Anatomy

Jim Rash in Community (2009)

S4.E12 ∙ Heroic Origins

Joel McHale and Jim Rash in Community (2009)

S4.E13 ∙ Advanced Introduction to Finality

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Community: all 6 seasons, ranked.

Community was full of laughs and wows as we saw the 6 members grow before our eyes. Let's rank the seasons and see which tops as the best.

Community is arguably one of the best shows of the decade, and one of Dan Harmon's greatest creations as the show had everything. It had laughs, drama, heart-breaking and cringe moments, it was a show for fans of all genres. It covered everything in more, on its way to earning Emmy nominations and filling out the supporting cast perfectly.

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With just six seasons revolving around a dysfunctional and very different group of adults trying to make it in life, we have so many favorite and memorable episodes. We're going to rank all six seasons to see which one comes out on top as the best.

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Season 5 seemed like a grasp from the very beginning as it would’ve represented the 5th year of the gang's collegiate career when they all graduated in four. We didn’t know what to expect as there would be no use for them to still be in college, but we quickly find out the team isn’t very happy outside of graduating.

Jeff is failing as a lawyer, Abed is failing as a filmmaker, and Shirley and Annie are both hating their jobs. The gang returns but this time Jeff is the teacher and the rest of the group is once again enrolled.

Most episodes are forgettable and we see the end of Troy’s reign in the gang as he decides to leave on a boat trip after Pierce’s tragic passing before the events of season 5.

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Season 6 shouldn’t have happened in the first place. With half of the cast being demoted to recurring, we don’t see a lot of any of our favorite characters and it’s hard to care about new characters that come in after 5 and a half years of following the study group. The whole season seemed rushed or like it was running out of material. There was no reason the group should be in college anymore.

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Like season 5, a lot of the jokes and episodes are just recycled from other seasons and its hard to get into the show. Although we would welcome a Community reunion, we hope it's better than season 6.

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Season 4 is where we start seeing the ratings drop and the show starts to struggle. When the first three seasons where nothing but humor and creative stories, it seems like we got some recycled jokes and overplayed humor. It also shocked fans as the leader of the group, Jeff, looks to graduate early.

That doesn’t mean the season didn’t have gems like “Advanced Introduction to Finality” where we see alternate timelines after the gang decides to roll a dice. We also see the origin of the team as told b Abed in “Heroic Origins”. We saw a shortened season and the quality suffered for it.

This is also the last full season where the entire cast is present and accounted for. It is senior year for the gang and we see them in a different light in season 4.

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Season 3 started with some drama, as Jeff is kicked out of the group after trying to prove they don’t need to take the same classes to stay together. After realizing how important the group is, he sees the error in his mistakes and begs to come back.

The rest of the season is where we see some of the most creative episodes, with 22 minutes of pure entertainment. We see Troy and Abed at odds for the first time in “Pillows and Blankets” and we see Troy struggling with a decision between staying with his friends or attending the prestigious air conditioning school.

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We also meet Pierce’s racist dad. Overall, we see the show expand from the regular six and slowly start to appreciate characters like Chang and Dean Pelton, although they don't take away the spotlight from any of the starring cast.

We see a new side to Pierce, who was often the outcast of the group due to his ignorant and offensive ways. Although he's not always easy to deal with, we learn why he is the way he is.

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The first and arguably one best of all the seasons where we met the group and watched as they experienced their first semester of college at Greendale. This is where we see each character develop and what roles they’re going to play moving forward, with Jeff Winger as the leader, Shirley as the den mom, and everyone else falling into place.

We got classics like “Physical Education”, where Jeff literally plays pool naked to prove a point and others like “The Science of Illusion” where Britta’s April Fools joke goes way too far and Shirley and Annie fight it out to see who’s really the “bad cop”.

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The season finale is where we put all the hatred we had for Jeff for being stuck up and realize that he means well although he doesn't always show it. It's amazing to see how a show can develop characters so well.

A Fistful Of Paintballs

Season 2 saw some minor changes to the group like instead of taking Spanish, they must decide on their next class. We see Jeff learn to appreciate his friends more and take on a better leadership role as he spends a lot of episodes defending someone in one way or another.

We see some sad episodes, some hilarious, and some that just make us love the study group even more. We see the ignorant and childish Pierce come to terms with the death of his mom with the help of Troy and Abed, we learn a little bit more of Jeff’s past as a lawyer, and we see the Christmas special where the gang is claymation. We even see the gang invite new members in “Advanced Dungeons and Dragons”.

Perhaps the most epic was the two-part episode where the entire school embarked on an all-out paintball war to earn a prize. It was something we'd never seen in a sitcom before.

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Bring the heat during Season 5 of NBA 2K24 .

Season 5 of NBA 2K24 is heating up! Team up with Phoenix Suns guard Devin Booker and deliver scintillating performances to earn all-new rewards this Season. Channel Booker’s myriad of skills by facilitating the offense as a dynamic distributor or lighting up the scoreboard with a barrage of mid-range jumpers. Now that the 2024 NBA All-Star Game has passed, Booker and the Suns will kick their competitive edge into a higher gear as they direct their focus toward the postseason—where legends are born.

For the next six weeks visit the pristine beaches of The City (New Gen) or bask in the beauty of The Neighborhood (Current Gen), where you can compete with other MyPLAYERs, earn new rewards, and experience a bevy of exciting events!  

NBA 2K24 SEASON 5 TRIKE

Season 5 of NBA 2K24 keeps the good times rolling with added rewards and more content for you to enjoy in The City and The Neighborhood. Hit the courts solo or with your friends and compete against other MyPLAYERS to earn XP as you level up to receive new rewards. This Season features a fresh batch of Emotes, Jumpshot Meters, 2XP Coins, and more, with even bigger rewards for players who reach Level 30 and beyond.

NBA 2K24 SEASON 5 JET PACK

Take a look at some of the featured rewards below:

  • Level 1 Season 5 Tee and Ball
  • Level 10 Los Angeles Clippers and New York Knicks Team Banners
  • Level 20 Wearable Mascots
  • Level 27 Leather Jacket
  • Level 30 Black-on-Black Jetpack
  • Level 35 Season 5 Pinstripe Suit
  • Level 37 Tim Duncan and Larry Bird Banners
  • Level 39 Motorized Drift Trike
  • Level 40 Gold Floor Setter (NG)

Create a bonafide star using one of the many MyPLAYER templates available in NBA 2K24 , including an entire batch of new Season 5 templates featuring current and classic NBA stars, with some unique Community builds; take a look:

Current NBA

  • PG - Coby White
  • SG - Devin Booker
  • SF - OG Anunoby
  • PF - Obi Toppin
  • C - Nicolas Claxton

Classic NBA

  • PG - Nick Van Exel
  • SG - Tony Allen
  • SF - Joe Johnson
  • PF - Rashard Lewis
  • C - Dikembe Mutombo
  • PG - LaMonsta
  • SG - JerseyMade93
  • SF - COLETHEMAN
  • PF - Dimework
  • C - BashWorld

Season 5 is sizzling with hot rewards and action-packed events! Soak up the fun and enjoy some fierce competition as the NBA regular season comes to a close and college basketball heats up.

NBA 2K24 SEASON 5 BAD BUNNY

Bad Bunny, one of the biggest recording artists on the planet, is coming to NBA 2K24 , along with special MyCAREER and MyTEAM rewards. As part of the MyTEAM Crossover Series, you can complete the Bad Bunny Spotlight challenge to add him to your lineup! In addition, you can add two Bad Bunny jersey cards and a Bad Bunny court to your MyTEAM collection. As for MyCAREER, you can flaunt your Los Cangrejeros de Santurce MyPLAYER jersey around The City and The Neighborhood! Plus, 18 songs from his most recent album, Nadie Sabe Lo Que Va a Pasar Mañana, will be added to the NBA 2K24 soundtrack in addition to special MyCAREER and MyTEAM rewards.

NBA 2K24 SEASON 5 MyTEAM MOBILE

This Season of MyTEAM has a lot to offer, and now you can enjoy the action from anywhere with the NBA® 2K24: MyTEAM mobile app. Experience your favorite card-collecting mode in the palm of your hands on iOS and Android devices. Whether you’re on mobile or console, you can earn powerful new cards in Season 5.

Bolster your MyTEAM lineup with this Season’s sharpshooting Kevin Durant and James Harden cards. The former teammates are among the greatest shooters in NBA history, and now they can be a part of your lineup in Season 5. Participate in MyTEAM’s various modes to earn XP and level up the seasonal rewards ladder to earn Durant, Harden, and more, including a special MyTEAM Coliseum Arena Card, which you can earn by completing a series of agendas.

Kevin Durant’s unique blend of size, athleticism, and finesse make him one of the best players to grace the NBA. Start Season 5 by earning the Level 1 Free Agent Kevin Durant card and make use of his offensive repertoire for five single-player or multiplayer games. Once you’ve added the versatile scorer to your collection, you can earn 2XP Coins, Prize Balls, Ascension Picks, and other rewards before reaching the Level 10 Amethyst Steven Adams card.

If you’re looking for a bruising presence in the key, Adams can hold it down with the best of them. The New Zealand native is an excellent rebounder, and his nimble footwork makes him a reliable defensive presence in the paint. With Durant and Adams both in your lineup, your team should have plenty of defensive pressure that will force your opponents to reconsider driving to the hoop.

NBA 2K24 SEASON 5 JAMES HARDEN

Round out your playmaking and scoring with the Level 15 Diamond Caron Butler , Level 25 Pink Diamond Pete Maravich, and Level 40 Galaxy Opal James Harden cards to turn your best lineup into an offensive powerhouse, with gifted players at every position. Each of the aforementioned players can light it up from beyond the arc or get in close with signature moves like James Harden’s near-unstoppable euro-step layup. The former Houston Rocket won MVP, led the league in scoring three consecutive years, and was a six-time selection for the All-NBA First-Team squad during his nine seasons with the team. The 10-time All-Star is the first Level 40 Galaxy Opal player of NBA 2K24 .

Lastly, no lineup is complete without a savvy coach to conduct the gameplan—enter Miami Heat head coach Erik Spoelstra. The two-time NBA champion coach got his start as a video coordinator within the Heat organization before climbing the ranks and developing into one of the league’s best head coaches. The Level 30 Diamond Erik Spoelstra card can take your star-studded lineup over the top.

NBA 2K24 SEASON 5 MyTEAM Coliseum

Stand before 60,000 fans in the massive MyTEAM Coliseum, earned by completing new agendas to show you are a Master of MyTEAM. Compete for glory, honor, and this new special reward by completing various feats, including beating a team by 100 points in Domination, finishing a Triple Threat game with a 21-point lead, earning a Weekend Championship Ring in Unlimited, and more! If you’re able to accomplish all of the thrilling tasks, you’ll receive this new and exclusive arena to compete in each of MyTEAM’s modes.

Don’t forget, you can always brush up on all the latest MyTEAM packs and cards by visiting the MyTEAM Season Playbook page.

THE W ONLINE*

The height of the college hoops is nearly upon us, and soon we’ll get a closer look at many of the incredible prospects who are sure to be selected in the 2024 WNBA Draft. To commemorate the moment, NBA 2K24 will feature a pair of former college standouts in Sabrina Ionescu and Becky Hammon, who both led their respective teams to the Sweet Sixteen during their college careers. In Season 5, we’re introducing all-new rewards and compelling challenges to fuel your competitive spirit in The W Online.

Weekly Goal

  • Sabrina Ionescu Heroine Edition Jersey
  • Team Accelerator Boosts
  • Team Resilience Boosts
  • Team Extender Boosts
  • Helping Hands Boosts
  • Player Boosts

Season Rewards

  • MyTEAM Sky Jersey Card
  • MyTEAM Sabrina 1 Shoe Card
  • Becky Hammon MyTEAM Coach Card
  • Clothing Bundles
  • Becky Hammon Historic T-Shirt
  • Level C, B, A, S Seasonal Perk Winners Circle
  • Napheesa Collier Jersey
  • Sabrina Ionescu All-Star Jersey

Compete and earn rewards to flex your collection in NBA 2K24 .

SEASON PASS

NBA 2K24 SEASON 5 WHITE HELMET

Enhance your NBA 2K24 experience with the Season 5 Pro Pass.** The Pro Pass grants you access to 40 additional levels of earnable premium rewards, including the Season 5 Eye Patch, Pro Pass Galaxy Opal James Harden card, Galaxy Opal Zion Williamson, White Astronaut Helmet, Premium Skin Motorized Drift Trike, and more!

**NBA 2K24 Pro Pass requires the base game, internet connection and NBA 2K Account.

COMMUNITY SURVEY

Want to share your thoughts on Season 4 of NBA 2K24 ? Click here and take our six-minute NBA 2K Community Survey to let us know what you’d like to see more of in the future! The survey will be available through February 26, 2024.

*The W Online mode and related content are available on New Gen only

**NBA 2K24 Season Pass FREE rewards require unlocking with gameplay. NBA 2K24 Pro Season Passes and Hall of Fame Passes are available for separate purchase and require base game, internet connection and NBA 2K Account. Paid premium Passes unlock additional rewards for the Season that are earnable through gameplay. Progress and rewards reset at the end of each Season. For more information on Season Pass, go to https://nba.2k.com/2k24/season-pass/ .

COURTSIDE REPORT

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Indiana Pacers superstar Tyrese Haliburton will welcome fellow NBA stars to Indianapolis for the 2024 NBA All-Star Game. Partake in the festivities in NBA 2K24.

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Celebrate NBA 2K’s 25th Anniversary during the 25 Days of 2K event, taking place during Season 3 of NBA 2K24 in The City and The Neighborhood.

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IN-SEASON TOURNAMENT

Compete in the NBA’s inaugural In-Season Tournament and advance from Group Play to the Knockout Stage, and try to win the NBA Cup in NBA 2K24.

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The future has arrived in Season 2 of NBA 2K24

NBA 2K24: Season 1

NBA 2K24 is here, with new Season 1 rewards and content.

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Street Outlaws: No Prep Kings Season 4 Streaming: Watch & Stream Online via HBO Max

Street Outlaws: No Prep Kings Season 4 follows a gathering of talented drivers engaging in high-speed drag races at various locations nationwide. Amidst fierce competition and significant rewards, participants strive to conquer difficult tracks and establish themselves as prominent figures in the street racing community.

Here’s how you can watch and stream Street Outlaws: No Prep Kings Season 4 via streaming services such as HBO Max.

Is Street Outlaws: No Prep Kings Season 4 available to watch via streaming?

Yes, Street Outlaws: No Prep Kings Season 4 is available to watch via streaming on HBO Max .

In Season 4, skilled racers engage in fierce competition on challenging tracks across the country. Ryan Martin emerges as a formidable contender, encountering tough competition from other skilled drivers. Amidst changing partnerships and escalating rivalries, each racer endeavors to achieve success. The season culminates in an exhilarating finale where every decision carries significant weight.

The cast includes Justin Shearer (Big Chief), David Comstock (Daddy Dave), Shawn Ellington (Murder Nova), Jerry Johnston (Monza), Chuck Seitsinger (Chuck), and Ryan Martin, alongside Birdman (Chris Hamilton) and BoostedGT (James Finney).

Watch Street Outlaws: No Prep Kings Season 4 streaming via HBO Max

Street Outlaws: No Prep Kings Season 4 i s available to watch on HBO Max. It offers a wide range of premium content, including original series, blockbuster movies, and popular TV shows, combining the extensive HBO catalog with additional WarnerMedia properties.

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Street Outlaws: No Prep Kings synopsis is as follows:

“Each week, Outlaws veteran “Chuck” will serve as race master in a new city and on a new “no prep” track, where 32 of the biggest names in no prep racing – including STREET OUTLAWS favorites, as well as newcomers – will duke it out to become the ultimate “no prep winner” and receive a $40,000 first place purse”

NOTE: The streaming services listed above are subject to change. The information provided was correct at the time of writing.

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