Six Seasons and a Movie

Audacious Weird And Icily Ironic Community Was A Kind Of Geek Alt-Comedy Portal Packed With Science Fiction References In-Jokes That Quickly Metastasized Into Their Own Alternate Universe Dark Conspiracy-Tinged Humor And A Sharp Yet Loving Deconstructions Of The Sitcom Genre. At The Same Time It Also Turned Into A Thoughtful And Heartfelt Rumination On Loneliness Identity And Purpose. The Story Of Community Is The Story Of The Evolution Of American Comedy. Its Creator Dan Harmon Was An Improv Comic With A Hyperbolically Rapid-Fire And Angrily Geeky Style. After Getting His Shot With Community Harmon Poured Everything He Had Into A Visionary Series About A Group Of Mismatched Friends Finding Solace In Their Community-College Study Group. Six Seasons And A Movie: How Community Broke Television Is An Episode-By-Episode Deep-Dive That Excavates A Central Cultural Artifact: A Six-Season Show That Rewrote The Rules For Tv Sitcoms And Presaged The Self-Aware Metafictional Sensibility So Common Now In The Streaming Universe. Pop Culture Experts Chris Barsanti Jeff Massey And Brian Cogan Explore Its Influences And The Long Tail Left By Its Creators And Stars Including Donald GloverS Experiments In Music (As Rapper Childish Gambino) And Tv Drama (Atlanta); Producers-Directors Anthony And Joseph RussoS Emergence As Pillars Of The Marvel Universe (Captain America: Civil War And Avengers: Infinity War); And HarmonS Subsequent Success With The Anarchic Sci-Fi Cartoon Rick And Morty.Covering Everything From The Corporate Politics That Harmon And His Team Endured At Nbc To The Easter Eggs They Embedded In Countless Episodes Community: The Show That Broke Television Is A Rich And Heartfelt Look At A Series That Broke The Mold Of Tv Sitcoms.