Community: Season 3
  • Network: NBC
  • Series Premiere Date: Sep 17, 2009
  • Season #: 1 , 2 , 3 , 4
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Metascore
81 out of 100

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User Score
8.8 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 169 Ratings

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  • Summary: The study group returns to find a new vice dean (John Goodman), and Jeff clashes with the new biology professor (Michael K. Williams).
  • Genre(s): Comedy

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 4
  3. Negative: 0 out of 4
  1. Hitfix
    Reviewed by: Alan Sepinwall
    Mar 15, 2012
    100
    Normal is overrated. Give me whimsy, dreams and Evil Troy and Evil Abed any day. Give me extraordinary. Give me Community.
  2. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Hank Stuever
    Mar 16, 2012
    90
    Community stands on its own intangible excellence.
  3. Slant Magazine
    Reviewed by: Mike Lechevallier
    Nov 7, 2011
    75
    Community is at its most watchable not when it's tackling some real-world hot-button issue via the guise of a Greendale Community College campus event, but when it's examining the interactions of its main characters.
  4. PopMatters
    Reviewed by: Daynah Burnett
    Sep 29, 2011
    60
    We never know how fully such a mix might develop, and in this episode, it seemed undercooked by the end.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 22 out of 24
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 24
  3. Negative: 2 out of 24
  1. Ps3blaze22
    10
    The most astoundingnly, clever comedy to grace the small screen since Friends and Seinfeld. God, this comedy series just can't be described in words. You have to watch it imo, if you aren't you're really missing out.… Expand
  2. drlowdon
    8
    There were certainly more episodes that missed the mark in Community's third season than in the previous two but when a show is as ambitious as this and willing to try something different every week I for one am more than happy to cut it a little slack. Any sitcom that produces episodes as original, clever and as funny ‘Remedial Chaos Theory’ and ‘Digital Estate Planning’ is more than worthy of my time.… Expand
  3. enworbo
    7
    As already hinted at by Abed, since series one, this show has been taking a slightly different direction. Season 1 was a sitcom with an overarching plot, similar to Scrubs, I suppose. Season 2 was just a series of episodes that were fun to watch. Season 3 seems to just be heading deeper down that path, in that every character is now essentially an unrealistic caricature of their season 1 self. Whether or not this works well, remains to be seen.… Collapse
  4. lbolen
    0
    OK, well the first season I thought I liked the show, had some interesting twists. But as the second season came along, and now this one...it's just getting weirder and weirder. I just don't enjoy the show any more.… Expand

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