I've always put season 1 of Community right up alongside season 2 as the best season, sometimes even higher than season 2, but I've never been able to put my finger on why. I just started rewatching Community for the zillionth time, and I think I figured it out.
Although season 2 has better individual episodes (season 1 is decent, but outside paintball and chicken tenders, it's basically a good sitcom with a bunch of one-liners), season 1 does almost everything else just as well, or in some cases better as a whole. I'd argue that half of the main characters are written much better in season 1 (definitely Pierce and Chang, and I'd argue that Britta and Shirley are much better in season 1, too), with the rest of the characters having similar characterization in both seasons (to an extent). Really the biggest issue I had with season 1 was how they shoehorned multiple love triangles into it, which I hate in pretty much every show, but that happens in season 2 (and to a lesser extent 3) also.
Additionally, I'm a fan of how grounded most of the season was. I think part of what made the chicken fingers episode and the paintball episode so great was how big of a shift it was from the rest of the show. In season 2, almost every episode was fairly surreal. Don't get me wrong, those episodes were (generally) great, but it gave me a similar feeling to when a show has a whole season of monster-of-the-week episodes. They can all be great individual episodes, but it (in my opinion) harms the show as a whole. So, while I think season 2 has the most great individual episodes, and my personal favorite episode is either in season 3 or 5 (it seems to switch between the alternate timelines episode and the polygraphy episode every time I rewatch), I think season 1 is, as a whole, the best season of the show.
Thoughts?
Submitted May 23, 2020 at 10:32PM by Gutterball1234 https://ift.tt/3bXPdzp
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