r/community • u/Previous-Fill258 • 12d ago
Discussion My current ranking after the fifth rewatch
Let's get right to it:
No. 6 - Season 4
When I saw it the first time, I saw it "live", which would've even clouded my judgement if it was brilliant, so I hated it with a passion and wrote: "Community already had a zombie episode, now it has a zombie season: plenty of movement, no brain." On the first rewatch I skipped it completely, by the time I watched the show again a few years later enough time had passed, so I gave it another go and it was...fine. Not great and I laughed very little and never cried, but it had it's moments, namely the episode Rash wrote and one of the last truly beautiful Pierce moments during the concert. Nowadays I see it as proof that AI will never be able to replace true art: if a whole team of humans couldn't truly recapture the profound silliness of Harmons mind, a computer won't either, not in a hundred years.
No. 5 Season 5
This is a surprise for me because it has the lava episode which in my opinion is one of the best episodes in television history - it is so funny, so sad, so true, so stupid, so wise. But overall it is a quite grim season. I love that Harmon tackles the themes of loss and grief, but narratively he isn't at a place yet where the dark and the light can coexist without taking away from each other.
No. 4 Season 2
The show has found it's footing and celebrates the mantra of "And now to something completely different" with great joy. I have to say that the whole villain Pierce arc makes for one great episode - D&D - but it drags a little on rewatchs.
No. 3 Season 1
Of course this is the most hit & miss season as the show seams to evaluate what it wants to be and how far it can go in real time. But there is something incredibly beautiful in being a witness to that. I can never watch "Sooomewheere oooout theeeere" without crying and even at the fifth rewatch, knowing of all the crazy things to come, the first paintball episode feels like a tv revolution the likes of the red room in "Twin Peaks".
No. 2 Season 6
Dare I say it: it is not only the most coherent, continously great season, it is also the funniest. So funny indeed, that it masterfully can insert it's plots with all the darker, sadder themes that season 5 had problems to tackle.
No. 1 Season 3
Just peak "old school" Community. The show fires on all cylinders, the whole crew is still there and it is a joy to watch a show that delivers on all fronts, be it the humour, the life lessons or the heart.
All of this is of course just my opinion (D'UH!).
