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02 Jun

Community: The Moment Abed Became the Main Character

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There’s no doubt that Danny Pudi’s character Abed was a favorite of Community fans everywhere. Despite a lack of social skills explained through an unspoken understanding that the character was on the autism spectrum, Abed’s charm sprung from his ability to relate reality to pop culture narratives that were easier for him to comprehend. However, there was a specific moment in season one that made it clear that his penchant for meta-referencing his fictional existence made him the de facto POV of the show, not just the sidekick to Joel McHale’s character Jeff. It’s worth noting that Community creator Dan…
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20 Oct

How Call of Duty’s SBMM Controversy Divided a Toxic Multiplayer Community

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Ahead of Call of Duty Black Ops: Cold War‘s release on Nov. 13, the CoD community remains divided on the subject of skill-based matchmaking (SBMM). Maybe this is the first time you’ve heard about SBMM, but you can rest assured that if you’ve played a Call of Duty game in the last 15 years, you’ve probably been affected by it. In fact, you’ve probably unknowingly participated in the SBMM debate if you’ve played just about any major multiplayer game. So how has this prevalent and seemingly simple bit of game design become such a venomously contested subject? Here’s an overview…
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15 Sep

Community: Britta Perry Is the Worst, Which Makes Her the Best

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Sitcom characters very rarely come off of the page fully formed. Many classic (and not-so-classic) network sitcoms rely on time as an ally. Time spent with characters allows for not only an audience to get a better sense of them but also for the writers and actors to do so as well.  Community was no exception. Each of the ensemble cast’s seven main characters (and tertiary characters like Ben Chang and Dean Craig Pelton) arrived in the pilot fundamentally unfinished. And each of them evolved over time, in some cases sharpening creator Dan Harmon and the writing staff’s original assumptions…
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20 May

Community Movie: Donald Glover on Newfound Love for Series, Open to Film

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Ten years is a long time. Yet it’s been that and more since Community first premiered on NBC in the fall of 2009. Originally greenlit as a lighthearted single-camera sitcom about community college misfits, the series created by Dan Harmon turned out to be much weirder and outside-the-box than that. In retrospect, this was its virtue, as was its deep bench of talent that in addition to Harmon included future award winning talent like Donald Glover, Alison Brie, Jim Rash, and Avengers: Endgame directors Joe and Anthony Russo. But at the time, its quality was sometimes hard to quantify for…
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13 May

Community Movie: Gillian Jacobs Says ‘We’re All Down’

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It never was quite the same. While Community was given a brief reprieve from death when NBC cancelled the cult classic sitcom in 2014, the sixth and final season of Community on Yahoo Screen was not the same show. How could it be? While Season 5 featured Donald Glover for roughly half its length, season 6 would also say goodbye to Yvette Nicole Brown and much of the network TV budget that, even when diminished, gave creator Dan Harmon a lot of mileage for his high-concepts. Plus, there was the loss of Chevy Chase/Pierce Hawthorne… Yet the final season still…
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28 Nov

Community – The Complete Series – DVD

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Highly Recommended The Show:Over the last five decades or so, there has been no shortage of sitcoms that take place in educational institutions. They're mostly centered on high school, but college also gets its occasional turn in the form of quirky shows about early adults struggling to find their place in life. Community is special amongst them because it's mainly about misfits of various ages who are trying to grasp a second chance at life. That insightful premise is wrapped about a heightened high concept tone that borderlines on a live action cartoon narrative. The formula that creator Dan Harmon…
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