What did you think of Community and Broad City?
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Replying to @TellerGrim
never watched more than the pilot episode of the former, never watched the latter at all
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @TellerGrim
The pilot of community is really unrepresentative of the show
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Dan Harmon (of Community and Rick & Morty) is someone you can really clearly tell is extremely averse to anything that smells of schmaltz and edifying morals, to his own detriment sometimes - hence the meta thing of writing characters who need to undercut all sincerity with snark
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Replying to @arthur_affect @shakln and
But that means when he's firing on all cylinders he's really good at writing stories that get to a point of emotional closure without trying to make you feel like you "learned something"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @shakln and
The funny thing is, I'd argue Community is every bit as schmaltzy as Parks & Rec, there's just an undercurrent of existential despair about it. Mike Schuer comedies make you feel like so long as you have a support network, you can go places.
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Replying to @fiddlersgreen92 @arthur_affect and
In Community, it goes as far as "so long as you have a support network." Entire episodes are dedicated to the protagonists bonding, learning some valuable lesson about how hard it can be to live with someone, etc.
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Replying to @fiddlersgreen92 @arthur_affect and
And, natch, ultimately, throughout the show's run? Almost none of the characters achieve their dreams. The world is terrible, but it's at least manageable if you have friends.
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Replying to @fiddlersgreen92 @shakln and
Yeah Parks and Rec serving a massive plate of wish fulfillment with its ending really shows how much his POV changed as he got more license to indulge
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Replying to @arthur_affect @fiddlersgreen92 and
If you actually look back at P&R S1 when it was "public-sector The Office" they actually explicitly state the stakes Nothing ever gets done in the Parks and Rec department, Leslie's plan for a new park is a pipe dream, and if it actually happens it'll be her biggest achievement
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The epilogue having her morph into Hillary Clinton and be on the way to the White House made it really clear this was not at all even the same kind of show
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Replying to @arthur_affect @fiddlersgreen92 and
Almost kind of feel like we can blame the final season of P&R for Trump getting elected, like it was such smug, self-congratulatory feelgood liberal bullshit that the Moirae themselves had to doom humanity just to spite the hubris of it
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @fiddlersgreen92 and
You know that it's text on The Good Place that the events of the show inadvertently caused everything bad that happened in 2016, including Brexit (and implicitly Trump)
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