it's season finale... season!

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[There was really only one thread of interest for me on The Office...]which was of course whether or not Catherine Tate would be staying for the next season and if I would then have to keep watching. And it looks like the answer is yes?? I was excited but also conflicted because lol this show is a travesty now. BUT CATHERINE TATE ON MY TV MORE? HOW CAN I TURN THAT DOWN? Plus she recited Shakespeare. So I guess

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[fauxkaren]

I actually really loved last night's Community. A lot of the little gags slayed me. Like "Ladders" or the deans playing chess using students to decide about job fair parking (Vikki neighed!!!). Or Garret's voice being deep and manly in the asylum scenes. Or Chang doing lines of crushed Doritos. Or Chang trying to use Garrett as a precog a la Minority Report. Or Shirley grabbing a book from the library and opening to see that it'd been cut out in the middle in order to hide a gun. And for some reason the scene where Shirley was giving her sons toys to the study group because "they took something of yours" after her boys ate the cookies she had made for the study group made me cackle

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It had some good moments but overall I was eh on the first clipshow half. I might have to rewatch and see if my opinion changes at all. I did love how early on Abed was like "the Dean has been replaced with a duplicate" and everyone assumed he was crazy when that is in fact what happened, lolol.

LOL Well I mean I know exactly why i keep watching and apparently that reason isn't going away anytime soon. Considering how many new writers and what a shuffle they'll have to do maybe it'll magically be better next year? Or ten times worse. BUT LET'S HOPE FOR BETTER.

Yeah that's how I felt. I was glad Leslie won but not shocked and overall the election plotline was mehhhhh to me. And Ben/Leslie drama is meh as well. And Tom/Ann of course is the fucking worst. It didn't even have to be, they just chose to execute it in the worst of all possible ways.

[fauxkaren]

I enjoyed the little clip show segment because there were a lot of really quick little gags in there that cracked my shit up for whatever reason. Like I cannot explain to you why I laughed so hard at "Ladders", BUT I DID. But the episode definitely elevated itself once it went to the whole "twist! you've been in an insane asylum the whole time!" thing. And then it was even funnier when that trope was made fun of when they realized how unbelievable it was.

The Office is such a mess. I mean Mindy Kaling's pilot got picked up, so is Kelly leaving? And I keep hearing rumors of a Dwight spin off? Idk. I think most of the cast is ready to move on. I really don't know what the show can do ti save itself, but I hope it figures something out because this is getting painful.

Yes! Tom/Ann didn't have to be terrible. BUT THE WRITERS ARE MAKING IT TERRIBLE. WHYYYYYYYYY??????????/

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I love those psychological twist gotcha movies so I loved seeing Community riff on them and ESPECIALLY when everyone went "wait, this makes no sense!" "I AM LITERALLY WEARING A GREENDALE BACKPACK RIGHT NOW!" etc. That's when I got really into it. The clipshow part was hit and miss.

Kelly is on so infrequently that maybe they'll be able to just keep her on. But she'll be so busy with her show that maybe not. IDK. Ed Helms is guesting on her show though. AND YEAH IDK? I mean... so many of the main cast has left. I guess Jenna, John and Ed are signed on and I'm sure the minor cast members are as well. AND PRESUMABLY CATHERINE TATE? I wish I knew whether she was doing a regular gig or a recurring gig because if it's recurring it'll be annoying for me to hvae to know what episodes to watch, lol.

Tom/Ann could've been good but the writers made it the opposite of good. So IDK.

[captaintish]

Flawless gifset is flawless. That moment made me laugh out loud, too. Shouldn't Gabe be gone now, since Sabre is no more?

[sherrilina]

Lol, I was thinking Shutter Island as well, loved it! (And the pen reference omg). I liked the flashbacks at the beginning too (like in the memories episode in season 2), especially because aww Dean (and his ~undying love~ for "Jeffrey"), but I did think it picked up more in the second half.

I too hope that season 4 will be especially strong with only 13 episodes--tbh, as I've watched more and more British TV and cable shows, I've come to appreciate shorter seasons.

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LOL I do love the Dean's intense favouritism for the "Greendale Seven" (haahahah), and how that eventually became what clued them in to Abed being right.

Same. I'm a little pressed now that it seems P&R gets a full season and Community doesn't, since I enjoy Community more, but ... oh well I guess.

[doctahr]

The Office can last as long as it likes as long as Catherine Tate's still on it.

I need more Catherine Tate on my TV.

[zombie_boogie]

I enjoyed parts of the election storyline, but I really preferred the first half of the season where there was a bit more variety in terms of stories and character interactions. I felt like a lot of the episodes in the back half blended together as much as I may have enjoyed them at the time. But I think the show still has enough spark in it to keep me excited for next season, especially because they'll have a wide open field to play in terms of stories.

I think the entire episode of Community should have been the asylum stuff, because that was brilliant (though I did enjoy a lot of the individual fake flashback clips). It dropped off at the end and felt like a set-up for the next episode.