Community – Where are these people going to go?
Way to go, Julia. You write about how great the episode endings with Abed and Troy are, and Community stops doing them. As much as I did enjoy the rap at the end, it really just wasn’t the same. Other than that, I loved this week’s episode, although it brings up a worrisome point for me: where are these people going to go?
Yes, that’s a concern in any school-based series, but Community faces some challenges that others don’t. If this were a group of high school students, they could all randomly decide to stay in town and go to college together, as has been the way for years, from Saved by the Bell’s UC Berkeley (CAL) to Gossip Girl’s NYU. If it were a regular college show, new castmembers could be rotated in to pick up the slack after original ones graduated. However, Community is a little bit more difficult– and this week’s episode highlights that difficulty.
Behind-the-scenes footage, a contest, and a video vixen – Medium Roundup
Each week, I slave over a hot laptop to bring Medium fans news, promos, and other goodies associated with the show. These are some of the highlights from the past week at Medium Dreams. Enjoy!
- My “Bite Me” review pretty much agrees with Brett’s: The Night of the Living Dead stuff was fun, but the main mystery was pretty easy to figure out.
- Here are some behind-the scenes videos of the Night of the Living Dead episode, including some of Patricia Arquette being inserted into the film.
- CBS is running a contest where you can win a trip to L.A. to visit the set of Medium.
- This “Trip Down Memory Lane” involves Patricia Arquette as a video vixen. She appeared in The Rolling Stones’ video for “Just Like a Rolling Stone.” She plays a junkie!
- Here’s the press release for this week’s episode of Medium, “New Terrain.” Allison seems to be involved in yet another car accident.
- Yet another “Trip Down Memory Lane” brings us a couple of Medium parodies that MadTV did a few years back. The first one is hysterical.
Undeclared – CliqueClack Flashback
Undeclared is the best show about school ever made. Cliqueclack Flashback = DONE.
Judd Apatow’s quickly-canceled college follow-up to his quickly-canceled high school series, Freaks and Geeks, was released my junior year of college. I hadn’t seen Freaks and Geeks at the time, so I had no idea who Seth Rogen, Jason Segel, or any of the other now-familiar faces in the cast were. I just knew that it was the funniest and most painfully-realistic portrayal of college life that I had ever seen.
The cast looked, dressed and sounded like actual college students– not 30-year-old hookers, which is a feat that has not been accomplished since. The guys were odd looking– a fact that was freely mentioned, and even the hot girls looked like normal hot college girls, not model/actresses. It was this realism that allowed the writing to shine and allowed the viewers to identify with every single thing these people were going through.
Gossip Girl – Hookers
I love how everyone on Gossip Girl tonight was basically dealing in human trafficking: either they were selling themselves, or selling out everyone else. Although, I guess that could pretty much be said for every episode of Gossip Girl– they just spelled it out for us this time.
Today is election day all over this great land of ours, so this episode is especially timely. Gossip Girl can hardly be accused of realism, but I really enjoyed what they did with the election storyline. America loves a good hero, and it seems as though New York, especially, has a local hero about every week.
But enough about heroes. Let’s talk about hookers– and how Serena is totally a big one.
Southland is officially moving to TNT, but will we get new episodes?
As often as NBC fails, there are certain things that they do well more often than other networks. I’m in love with their current Thursday night comedy block, and they have a tendency to put out really great police procedurals. Unfortunately, this is where the fail comes in. Life is an amazing show, but we’ll never see a season 3. Southland was also much better than I expected it to be: the 7 episodes that NBC aired pulled from the best aspects of Homicide: Life on the Street and Law & Order. Yet NBC still canceled it, after initially picking it up for a second season.
So as soon as NBC pulled that boneheaded move, the speculation began as to who was going to swoop in and save this show. Early on, TNT was named as a top contender, and now it’s official: TNT has announced that it will be airing Southland. Honestly, when I first heard the news, I didn’t really care. After all, the current deal that’s in place is to air the seven episode first season that already aired on TNT, and follow it up with the six episodes that have already been shot for season 2. But what about new episodes? Is 13 all we’re going to get?
Community – Okay, Abed as Batman made me love you again
Is it just me, or does it seem like more shows are going all out for Halloween this year? This week was Community’s Halloween episode, and it made me ridiculously happy. While the plot was another “Jeff acts like a jerk, makes people sad, learns his lesson and fixes everything” one, the character elements really made it stand out.
It’s no secret that Britta has been bothering me the past few episodes, but I really enjoyed her in this one. From her ridiculous squirrel costume that she wears because she hates it when women dress up as sluts for Halloween (all of my college Halloween costumes involved me being hugely pregnant for the exact same reason), to her snapping the head off of Professor Robin Hood’s trophy at the end of the episode, she was interesting to me for the first time in several weeks.
Community – No, seriously. What does Jeff see in Britta?
Okay, you wonderful commenters helped me determine that last week’s episode of Community was, in fact, out of order. So I was willing to disregard Britta’s bizarre bitchiness toward Jeff as just interrupted storytelling. However, the more we see of Britta, the more I’m confused as to what Jeff sees in her; she’s really annoying.
Last week, it was a whole bunch of, “I can’t believe you’re trying to be my friend as well as being sexually attracted to me; that’s gross,” which was confusing, and this week it’s just, “I’m going to be completely tone-deaf and not understand social cues in any way.” Even Abed would have looked at her bathroom rant about the evils of day spas and been like, “Dude. You should probably dial it back a bit. You’re being weird.”
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