New Fall TV Spotlight: Community

If you watch The Soup - and if you don’t what’s wrong with you - you’re as excited about NBC’s new show, Community. I never thought I’d see the day Joel McHale stepped onto a fictional, scripted television show, let alone a sitcom, but it’s welcome. While still playing a character, even from the previews it’s easy to see McHale keeps his dry, sardonic, and sharp sense of humor in tact. Which is a saving grace, as that’s what us McHale fans will be turning in to see. I wonder if I’ll keep expecting to see a little TV screen appear beside his head playing a reality show clip for him to comment on…

The show centers around McHale’s character, Jeff, a lawyer whose bar certification has been suspended due to the realization that his undergrad degree is from Colombia - not Columbia, the ivy league university people assume Jeff means.  Now he has to hurry up and get a more legit degree, and he turns to community college.

The show looks offbeat, quirky, tongue-in-cheek, and unafraid to insult - which is refreshing. The humor looks like a blend of Scrubs, Freaks and Geeks, and It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. It lays bare the eccentricities, hope, and disappointment of community college - like the married-seven-times elder student Jeff meets, played by Chevy Chase. All in all, I hope this one lasts. It premiers Thursday, September 17th at 8PM EST on NBC.

August 27th, 2009 by Courtney Iseman | Posted in Uncategorized | (0)