"Community"

“Community” is a new show on NBC. I am a little late in reviewing it, but I have been a little busy. “Community” was one of the most anticipated shows of the fall season. It stars Joel McHale as a lawyer named Jeff Winger who has to go to community college because his original bachelor’s degree was not legitimate. The first scene finds Jeff at a community college. He convinces a professor, a friend of his, to help him get through college because as he says, “If I wanted to learn, I wouldn’t have gone to community college. Jeff tells him he wants all the answers to the tests he has to take. Jeff is also interested in this girl in his Spanish class named Britta (Gillian Jacobs), who does not seem as interested in him. He offers to help tutor her in Spanish by saying he is a Board Certified Tutor in order to get colder to her. However, when he meets her, turns out more people were invited to this tutoring group. Jeff seems like he can make everything go the way he wants it to and can lie his way out of sticky situations. I mean, he lied his way into a career as a lawyer. One of the guys, Abed, compares them to “The Breakfast Club”, which kid of makes sense. These are people of different ages coming together.

Jeff runs into trouble, though, when everyone shows up to his tutoring special expecting him to tutor them in Spanish. The people in the group start arguing because of the differences among them. Jeff gives them a speech on how they should accept each other for who they are and create emotional bonds with each other. However, he completely made it up and he is called out on it and asked to leave. Later, they say the group isn’t the same without him.

I thought the first episode was good, it did not blow me away, but I think I will keep watching it. The episode was much better and funnier the second time around. It will be interesting to see Chevy Chase in this kind of role. He is a very talented comedian and it will be interesting to see how he is in the role. All the characters are very likable, especially Abed, who seems to be clueless about most things. And Joel McHale is a very funny guy, who people should check out on “The Soup” as well. Check out “Community” because it is a show that I think will get better over time and has the potential to succeed.