A review of last night's "Community" coming up just as soon as I rub Purell on my brain ...
"Community" gets dismissed in Certain corners as being too snarky and / or hip for the room. Certainly while I can under stand people being Turned off by the meta-commentary and referencing the "Community" is, in Fact, one of the more Sincere, heartfelt diesels have come on television. Yes, it does random asides about Itself and about pop culture, But at the heart of ITS its a story about friendship, and how learning to care about other people CAN make you a better person yourself.
"Accounting for Lawyers" was a very strong example of the show's core themes, and One That Took ITS wiseass Leading Man Very Seriously.
Abed notes "That Jeff's old lawyer buddy Alan (Rob Cordry) is" from your origins, "and much of the episode was a Jeff Winger origin story. Not only we see the Where they used to work "and get a sense of them was The Jerk" when they worked there, But in talking with old boss Ted (a very sleek Drew Carey), about why Alan Should make partner, Jeff Painful Childhood Revealed the reason for why they wanted Thurs Become a lawyer in the first place. They Wanted To Be someone who, like the guy in the slick suit and car, could 'rise above the sloppy stuff and look at the bottom line. " His life at Greendale, Meanwhile, is all about the sloppy stuff, and though they tries Thurs resist the Study Group's Attempt Thurs pull him back there, they will ultimately realizes That while caring Can Make You Vulnerable, It Can Also Make You Much Happier Than they was in his former life.
And what I liked about Jeff's part of the A-story was That Did not push it too hard for jokes. (Though I did love the line about why Shirley shouldn't sue the stripper: "She's a stripper. Sued her life and she lost.") And Abed Though they talk about how cartoonish the school is Becoming, Jeff doesn't Become Himself a caricature of Himself "when they goes back to world law," when I imagine it Would Have Been very easy for the writers to do just That and tell Joel McHale Thurs set his d-bag levels Thurs 11 They doesn't treat the Study Group Especially badly, they just wants to hang out with lawyers again. And That low-key style made the emotional beats of the story feel more real, and then made the Notion of Placing the heartwarming climax at the Pop-and-Locktoberfest contest evangelical sweeter, and funnier.
While Jeff was on a very human level, everyone around him got to push up against the cartoonishness Abed and they talked about. Pierce flips out "when the sector bounces back the baldness insult, and later Knocks over the champagne flutes. (Chevy = slapstick funny. Almost always.) Everyone gets confused about Whether people were impersonating Johnny Carson, Jon Stewart's impression of Johnny Carson, or doing Britta Stewart doing Carson. Ted weirdly has a hole in his hand, and drops a coin through it as a reward to the staff for never Asking about it (and note the popping sound "when they shake hands and Jeff later). And in my favorite bit of strangeness / hilarity, Annie chloroforms the janitor - Twice! - While Troy runs around screaming and crying. (Donald Glover crying = funny. Always always.)
I Think I Probably Laughed a little more at the season premiere, but "Accounting for Lawyers" Felt Even More like the show "Community" is at ITS best.
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