Community, Season 3, Episode 1: “Biology 101” Airs Thursdays, 8pm ET on NBC Community is back for its third season, opening with a bright and cheery musical number in which the cast sing and dance throughout the school, proclaiming that this new year will be different in that they are going to be more “normal.” …
A while back I posted a list of my favourite episodes of Community which wasn’t an easy task, since they are almost all great. The NBC sitcom is by far my favourite comedy series still airing, with Parcs and Rec in a close second spot. The new season is less than a month away, premiering …
The Broadcast Television Journalists Association has just announced their nominations for the first Critics’ Choice Television Awards. Modern Family leads the comedoes with six nominations, while Boardwalk Empire, The Walking Dead, Game of Thrones and The Killing dominate the drama series. We’ve been focussing more and more on television here at Sound On Sight and …
If you are not yet familiar with Dan Harmon’s Community, now’s as good a time as any. The NBC series (which airs on Thursday nights at 8:00 PM) ranks as one of the three best comedies currently still airing; which is saying a lot given this is now being hailed as the “Golden Age” of …
There is a reason why Community is one of my favourite shows. The show’s best episodes strike more imagination that most thirty minute comedies found on television. Prime examples would be the famous “bottle” episode and both Halloween specials. Last night Community aired an homage to Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction, and while spoofing Pulp Fiction has …
Donald Glover is best known as Troy in NBC’s comedy Community, a former high school football star trying to find his way. What many people don’t know is just how many projects Glover juggles at once in his career. He’s an actor, comedian (a member of the comedy troupe ‘Derrick’, an ensemble which released a …
NBC’s Community recently aired a stop motion Christmas special in which it’s cast went animated in the tradition of the Rankin/Bass holiday TV specials from the past. Well recently Cartoonist Chris Schweizer decided to sit down and illustrate something a bit different. Below you will see his drawing, turning the cast of Community into some …
If a single recent event can help to sum up what’s happened to television in 2010, at least on a symbolic level, it’s this one: Charles Eglee, one of the writer-producers who had worked on AMC’s wildly popular The Walking Dead before either leaving or getting sacked by showrunner Frank Darabont (depending on who you …
If Sound on Sight has a resident favorite network sitcom, it’s likely NBC’s Community, a fast-paced, earnest, and self-reflexive ensemble comedy best enjoyed by pop-culture obsessives. In keeping with their tradition of high-concept episodes (“Modern Warfare,” “Epidemiology”), showrunner Dan Harmon recently announced that the December 7th episode would be a stop-motion tribute to the Christmas …