Thursday, April 16, 2020
COVID-19 Binge Recommendation
If you're looking for something entertaining to binge during social distancing, I heartily recommend the best sitcom of the past ten years, Community, which is now happily available on Netflix.
Watch the first three seasons, they're golden. Season four, the so-called "gas leak year" is less good because Sony stupidly pushed out series creator Dan Harmon (Rick & Morty) and the show started losing some of the cast. Harmon returned during a re-invigorated season five, and after NBC cancelled the show, the sixth season was produced by Yahoo TV.
Whatever the weakness of its latter seasons, seasons one through three are among the best seasons of any sitcom in history. Smart, funny, clever, well-acted, genre-bending, surprisingly warm and good-hearted, and a joy.
Cool, cool, cool.
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I would respectfully request you call it "one of" the best sitcoms of the last ten years, due to the existence of the equally-brilliant Good Place.
I've been rewatching Avatar: The Last Airbender, which is head-and-shoulders the best animated television series in history.
I actually haven't seen either The Good Place or The Last Airbender. Aware of both, very much, but haven't watched them.
I want to be very clear here.
Avatar: The Last Airbender, the animated television show, is one of the greatest shows ever made. That's not hyperbole. It'll take a few episodes to get into it, but you have to trust it. It's unbelievably smart and layered to an absurd degree, especially for a kids' show. It remains to date (as far as I know) the only animated show to ever win a Peabody Award.
The Last Airbender, the movie, is shit. No other way to put it.
Totally understood. I know your tastes well enough to KNOW that you were talking about the animated series and NOT the terrible, terrible movie. :-)
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