Oral History of Community

[liz_marcs]

I think I might be the only person still posting here.

The Independent did an oral history of "Community" which you can read here.

For reasons that surpass all understanding, this is the description of the article: "‘We were around each other more than our family’: An oral history of Community"

As the cult comedy series arrives on Netflix, Simon

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[amrywiol]

You may be the only person still posting, but let me assure you that you're not the only person still reading:-)

Anyway - interesting article, thanks for linking to it. I actually learned stuff I didn't know from it which I wasn't expecting, that the Dean's sexual harassment of Jeff was apparently Joel's idea forex, or Alison thinking the cast didn't star to gel until "Introduction to Statistics" whereas I think most fans think the show starts to fly with "Football, Feminism and You" , and it was also nice to see Dan praise Joel for holding the group together during the show's most chaotic period. Was it just my imagination, or does Dan generally sound more thoughtful and reflective and generally holding-his-sh**-together here than he has in the past? It'd be nice if he's putting his demons behind him, even if it doesn't bode well for a movie. I think the best thing I got from it though was a sense that these people are not just going through the motions about wanting a movie - they genuinely sound like a bunch of people who really enjoyed working together and want to get that back.

But probably the most interesting thing about the article was that it was written at all in a British paper. Community, to put it mildly, is not a show that has a high profile over here (I speak as a British Community fan...) - it was never picked up by a major network and I for one was barely aware it even existed until it dropped on Amazon Prime ("barely aware" means that in a discussion on The Big Bang Theory in another place someone once said "if you think BBT was good, you really need to watch Community"). I started watching it out of curiosity, devoured the first five seasons in the month or so before S6 started and then had to scramble around and find an obscure satellite channel that was carrying S6 (thankfully I didn't have to go to Yahoo TV), and after a month or so of being forced to watch it at a pace of one episode a week I started reading (and writing - "And everything Goes Back to the Beginning" was started about halfway through S6) fanfiction to keep my fix at the maximum level. As a measure of just how obscure it was, when Glow launched Alison was introduced in publicity material as a star of Mad Men, not Community! I'm guessing this article was a labour of love for a fellow underground fan, but in any case I hope it attracts some attention to the show.