New Series: Community

Community (2009) D

After the season premiere of “The Office” last week, NBC debuted a new show called “Community” which centers around a lawyer named Jeff Winger (Joel Mchale) who must attend community college to avoid being disbarred. Sure enough, he is a lying, self serving smart-ass and the student body of the community college is a group of off-beat, socially awkward characters. This show is very predictable, and just not that funny. The only actor of note on the show is Chevy Chase who plays, that’s right, an aging actor. In the pilot episode, Winger fabricates a fake Spanish 101 study group in order to try to get close to a woman in his class, Britta (Gillian Jacobs). Another classmate, Abed (Danny Pudi), finds out and, assuming the study group is real, invites Pierce (Chevy Chase), Shirley (Yvette Nicole Brown), Annie (Alison Brie), and Troy (Donald Glover). Winger successfully attempts to turn them all against each other in order to get Britta alone but she realizes what he is doing and tells him off. I loathe to write off a show after only watching the pilot, so I may very well watch a couple more episodes. But that doesn’t mean you should.