I know that many of you were out doing cool people things last night and can’t talk to me about television yet. Screw you guys. This post is dedicated to the introverts and the couch potatoes. Reading about television in a timely manner makes us better than social butterflies.
Anyways. Hoooooooly crap, a lot of excellent things happened during last night’s Thursday shows! Read on, friends.
Community
GUYS, I MEAN REALLY:
I loved this. I didn’t think that it was the funniest, or cleverest, but it was art. And, even for being highly stylized, it was probably the most accessible episode of Community in months. I’ve spent hungover weekends mainlining both of these shows, and the combination worked beautifully. The yam plot device was weird because I had no idea that yams could grow in jars (why would you do that??) but assuming that is a real thing that happens, the story rocked. Troy and Abed nailed it as quippy detectives, and I am SO RELIEVED they are being real bros again. I loved that Britta’s only forensics skill was making things sepia-toned. AND! Michael Kenneth Williams (Omar from The Wire) came back as Professor Kane and actually said “a man’s got to have a code." And I died.
BUT THEN THAT OTHER THING HAPPENED! AND IT’S BEHIND A JUMP BECAUSE FOR BIG SPOILER!