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Modern Warfare.


It's official! Community, after a long and painful hiatus, is finally returning to our screens on March 15. Awesome Coincidence Alert: March 15 also happens to be my birthday! It's like the universe conspired to make my 22nd birthday more awesome. I'm so glad to have the show back.

Community's about a bunch of misfits in community college who form a study group. They start of simply as people trying to pass a class. As the 1st season goes on, they become actual friends. It's nice to see that develop, and over the course of Seasons 2 and 3, we see their friendship deepen, and the characters grow too. The characters are all equally lovable, and complex, and the relationships between them are also something worth watching.

It's a very well-layered show. The characters are all trying to achieve something - it's a college after all, and they have their own journeys. This journey is tied lovingly into well-crafted episodes. peppered with funny lines, popular-culture references and visual gags.

It's ambitious as well, in that it tries to defy a viewer's expectations of a sitcom. With HIMYM, we always expect a bunch of friends, hanging out at a bar and having adventures. With Modern Family, we expect...well, a family. With Community, we see a school. Only in this school, absolutely anything and everything will happen. Zombie attacks, gay bashes, paintball wars, dungeon and dragons...These escapade, although highly conceptual, remains faithful to the premise of the show and it's characters. It doesn't do gimmicks for gimmicks' sake.

On top of these are dedicated and talented actors, a group of genius writers and a fan-base who will do all sorts of crazy things for the show. When the hiatus was announced, fans rallied behind the show and staged flash mobs, created posters, sent mails to NBC, tweeted incessantly about the show. On my part, I put on a black goatee.



So come March 15, we'll be hanging out with our favourite study group once more. Okay, maybe it won't be everyone's favourite show. Not everyone will "get" it. The jokes aren't LOL-funny, some may find the characters too weird, and the situations too unbelievable to be taken seriously. But I think you should give it a shot anyway. Because if you do "get" it, you'll love it to bits. And if you bother to delve more into the show and watch it a couple of times and read up on it's background and stuff like I did, you'll love it even more.

PS: Omg, I was planning to just post those pictures but I got carried away. To make it worse, this isn't the first time I'm posting something like this. I did one a Community-related post a couple of months back. Ahh, there's more important things on my to-do list. I've a paper review due tonight.

With this out of my system, let's hope that I can focus more.