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swo17
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#752 Post by swo17 » Wed Oct 01, 2014 8:53 pm

To provide full-time care to her ailing father...and to be on another show?

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#753 Post by Mr Sausage » Wed Oct 01, 2014 10:10 pm

Wasn't Community cancelled?

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#754 Post by Ashirg » Wed Oct 01, 2014 10:11 pm


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#755 Post by Mr Sausage » Wed Oct 01, 2014 10:15 pm

Ashirg wrote:
Oh yeah, I remember now. Must've repressed that.


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#757 Post by The Narrator Returns » Mon Nov 17, 2014 10:44 pm

Its decline was just a red herring.

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#758 Post by Cold Bishop » Tue Nov 18, 2014 12:10 am

Honestly, with the phantom season bringing the Jeff-Dad issues to an anticlimactic thud, I'm surprised it took them this long to mine this storyline.

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#759 Post by domino harvey » Tue Feb 24, 2015 10:12 pm

Gillian Jacobs directed the Queen of Code, a documentary on Grace Hopper, and you can watch it here

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#760 Post by domino harvey » Tue Mar 03, 2015 3:05 pm

Community Season Six trailer... actually has a lot of laughs?! Could it be?

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#761 Post by Cold Bishop » Mon Apr 20, 2015 8:37 pm

So no opinions on this season in exile yet?

Those who found S5 to be woeful probably won't change their minds, but as someone who found the season charming enough if totally complacent (especially given all the backstage turmoil), I can say it's not the failure it could have been. This season hasn't found them changing that – there's been no real standout classic episode yet – but I do feel it's began to own up to it. Instead of fighting against the budget cuts, or the cast changeover or the credibility-stretching 6-year community college premise, I feel the show's at least going with the tide. Gone are the elaborate concept episodes, sure, but in it's place is a much more casual hang-out vibe built off the cast's natural charm more than anything else. If the show seems less concerned with huge arcs and mini-mythos and attempts at huge stakes, it's also given up the trend towards treacle (note the absence of Jeff-speeches) and shipping fan-service, which may have felt arch in early seasons but became overbearing near the end.

It's not amazing television yet, but I feel it's found a more modest groove which it could ride to a second wind if S7 were to occur. Given the downgrade, it's conceivable there saving the big concept episodes for the end, so we'll see how they play out

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#762 Post by swo17 » Mon Apr 20, 2015 9:56 pm

How do you watch this show now? Is it on the internet or something? My DVR hasn't picked up any new episodes.

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#763 Post by pzadvance » Mon Apr 20, 2015 10:00 pm

swo17 wrote:How do you watch this show now? Is it on the internet or something? My DVR hasn't picked up any new episodes.
It's on Yahoo Screen this season

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#764 Post by Cold Bishop » Mon Apr 20, 2015 11:34 pm

And surprisingly free, as I thought until recently that Screen was Yahoo's entry into the Netflix/Hulu game, when it's really more their Youtube.

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#765 Post by Moe Dickstein » Thu May 14, 2015 9:51 pm

There's no budget downgrade, in fact they have a slightly larger budget than the last season on NBC

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#766 Post by Cold Bishop » Thu May 14, 2015 11:20 pm

Which I've since learned... Perhaps the cast has gotten a bigger payoff or they're planning for something (they are doing another paintball... which is questionable), because it certainly doesn't feel that way.

Of course, after my laurels above, the show took a multi-episode dive into akward "gas leak" territory. With that said, I thought the last episode was perhaps the strongest of the season, and once again it's strength was just having the cast casually bounce off eachother.


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#768 Post by Murdoch » Thu Oct 22, 2015 1:25 pm

Yahoo previously teased that it may be renewing “Community” for a seventh season, or even take part in a movie deal with the Greendale Community College gang. That may appear less likely with Tuesday’s disclosure, but insiders tell Variety that a “Community” movie is still in play — with or without Yahoo.
Still pressing that joke I see. This has become like the Simpsons where I keep forgetting it's still being produced.

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#769 Post by domino harvey » Wed Jun 06, 2018 5:14 pm

Complete series is coming to Blu-ray in September from Mill Creek!

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I love that Jim Rash is top billed. Maybe the Dean was the real protagonist all along

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#770 Post by diamonds » Wed Jun 06, 2018 7:00 pm

Best news I have read all day. The Happy Endings announcement had renewed my longing for Community on Blu. Over the moon for this!

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#771 Post by domino harvey » Mon Oct 29, 2018 10:04 am

Waiting for this to go down in price but apparently the set has an Easter egg in that the season six commentaries, which were only available via Yahoo and not on the DVDs, are not listed in the extras or menu screens but are available by switching the audio options

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#772 Post by Gregory » Mon Nov 19, 2018 6:57 pm

Is there any chance that this set is from an actual HD source rather than being an upscale?

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#773 Post by domino harvey » Mon Nov 19, 2018 7:21 pm

Why would it not be HD? Mill Creek has released plenty of Blu-rays for TV series, I've seen zero indication that this is an upscale

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#774 Post by Gregory » Mon Nov 19, 2018 7:45 pm

I don't believe I've ever purchased any of their TV releases but had read (including here, I'm pretty sure) that they will often release upscales and that they cut corners in general. I also haven't seen any specific indication that this is an upscape, but then I also haven't seen a single review of this set on any of the usual review sites. Mill Creek have been asked this question on social media and I'm not sure there's been any word from them in response one way or the other.

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#775 Post by domino harvey » Mon Nov 19, 2018 8:27 pm

Their Happy Endings and Friday Night Lights series sets are authentic HD releases, the former of which comes from the same licensor. They def cut corners on DVD releases, maybe that's what you're thinking of? No reason to think this would be SD uprezzes

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