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  • Network: NBC
  • Series Premiere Date: Sep 17, 2009
  • Season #: 1 , 2 , 3
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Metascore
69 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 23 Critics What's this?

User Score
8.6 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 279 Ratings

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  • Summary: Jeff Winger (Joel McHale) is a lawyer who must attend community college after it is discovered he lied about where his law degree was from.
  • Genre(s): Comedy

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 16 out of 23
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 23
  3. Negative: 0 out of 23
  1. Newsday
    Reviewed by: Verne Gay
    91
    Community can be fresh, funny, smart and extremely aware of its own cleverness; it also can be terrifically odd--odd good, or odd bad, or sometimes odd-good-bad-strange all at once.
  2. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Matt Roush
    90
    One of the best new comedies of the season, and an instant bright light in NBC's much-honored lineup.
  3. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: David Hinckley
    60
    In weeks ahead, the show will likely work out a balance between the jerk and the laughs. Then it can also start exploring the other characters, all of whom have the potential to fuel amusing ongoing subplots.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 77 out of 93
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 93
  3. Negative: 15 out of 93
  1. darksobao
    10
    Go Greendale! The best comedy show on air. Each episode is a surprise, and humor is bright and quick. The characters have extreme personalities, but this is fun! Each week waiting for the new episode, and now I hope that NBC continues it! Please!… Expand
    • 1 of 1 users said yes
  2. EliasC
    4
    I liked the pilot but after watching a few more episodes, including the ridiculous laugh-free episode #3, I see this show as rudderless and going nowhere. The writer's seem not to know that the genius in comedy is to make humor out of ordinary situations, not to make situations and characters unrealistically over-the-top and totally unbelievable. 'Community' is now off my 'must watch' list. Perhaps it will improve mid-season. I will wait and see. Joel McHale deserves better.… Expand
    • 1 of 15 users said yes
  3. BrandonS
    0
    Love The Soup, love Joel McHale. I was looking forward to this show a lot - and it took about five minutes for my wife and me to turn this off. Supremely unfunny, it was disastrously bad.… Expand
    • 2 of 10 users said yes

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