Community

Last month to watch Community (2009-2015) on Netflix, it leaves in April in the USA. 

I don't think I've watched a show over and over more. I have insomnia these days and when I wake up in the middle of the night, if I don't put on a show or an audio book I can sometimes think negative thoughts, when my protective ego hasn't woken up yet, and so I put on a show or a book, and it's not a great way to watch a show, but it's also a way to have a show sneak into your consciousness in weird ways. 

I watched the show over and over before I started falling asleep to it. I find ensemble shows utterly fascinating. I'm also loving Young Sheldon right now. Anyway, you go on line and people defend or hate on a character is such an interesting window into their lives, not so much about the show.

Hamlet is indecisive, and you could say you hate him, but without the indecisiveness there is no play, so maybe it's more about plot device instead of a comment about psychology. That he stirs up feelings is important and tend to them, express them for sure, but don't imagine you're drawing some line in the sand that the world will now honor.

Jeff Winger is the slick lawyer whose rationality has him win big in court. He faked his way into being a lawyer without college, law school, or anything, Kim Kardashian is taking exams to be a lawyer without going to law school too. You just have to pass the Bar exam. He personifies attractive middle aged white male energy.

Britta Perry is the personification of American left wing radical, political correctness, every conservative's nightmare. She is intellectually compromised by her psychology and smoking cannabis. 

Abed has Aspergers and is obsessive about TV and movies. He's also middle eastern, but like the actor, is half Polish, and speaks Polish to prove it. 

Troy is the football star who sabotaged his life, and his friendship with Abed opens up his imaginative world that was closed down by his Jehovah Witness family. He likes Peirce sometimes. He was the top guy when in high school, and Annie always loved him.

Annie is the hyper competent and intellectually gifted Jewish young woman who got addicted to pills, and struggles with her expectations and competence. She loves Jeff and Troy and Vaughn, and just wants to be recognized. 

Shirley is the black Baptist mother. She wants to bake for the party, and convert people to Christianity, and be respected, like everyone else. She's a gossip and a shit stirrer. She can sing. 

Peirce is the elderly white man, heir to a fortune. He's provocative and says offensive things. He's the conservative who hates feelings and tries to provoke them out of everyone to get attention, and just wants to be taken seriously, but does everything he can to not be taken seriously. They all have self defeating behaviors.

This community also has in and out characters like Chang, and the dean, John Oliver, Buzz Hickey and Frankie, Garrett, Slater and Elroy. 

Frankie is low drama. Hickey is another cranky older white man who was a cop briefly. Elroy is the smart black guy, also older. John Oliver isn't really John Oliver, but you know, he can't really not be himself. Chang is a wild card, does the craziest stuff. 

It's really fun to see how they interact with each other and develop friendships. 

Dan Harmon is also the mind behind another of my favorite shows, Rick and Morty. There's a movie coming out, and there's way too much publicity about every nook and cranny of it's development, that I'm over that, I'll watch the movie when it comes to Netflix. It's a sad day when Community leaves Netflix, but it's probably for the best. I watched New Girl way too much and I was relieved when it left Netflix. I can only watch TV without commercials now, TV with commercials is just not gratifying enough.