I don't mind season 4, either. Not my favorite, but I liked it fine. Wasn't super thrilled with season 5.

I think I disliked it more on rewatch than I did the first time, which surprised me.

That said, it's a bad season of Community, not straight up bad television. It's still much better than the one episode of Yes, Dear my Tivo tricked me into watching where I literally spent the whole episode waiting for an actual punchline

So far the most surprising thing about rewatching season 5 is how little I remember - I hadn't seen seasons 2&3 in years and years either (although I did watch those episodes more back in the day I'm sure) and those were full of recognition and anticipating the cool thing I knew was coming and season 5 is just kind of, I remember few big things but that's it. I don't know if that's some intrinsic difference or maybe a difference in how I initially consumed them or just my brain doing what it does for no good reason, but it's striking.

Troy leaving still makes me cry

No surprise there

I started a rewatch after watching the Community Table Read, and while I still find the pilot pretty mediocre, I quickly fell right into it and ran through 10 episodes laughing my way through.

I was a little surprised how quickly the first season sucked me right in last week. Part of that is how delightful to recognize firsts and future callbacks, probably.

I'm watching Entertainment Weekly Binges Community videos in between seasons, they are kind of fun - a little visiting with a cast member, a little TV-nerd discussion between critics

Troy and Abed was one of the best television bromances ever.

Huh. The last two episodes of season 5 are completely unfamiliar to me. Is it possible I never saw them? Weird.

SO, season 5 as a whole I kind of halfway like, I think? There are a couple of episodes I really like in their entirety, but most of them I like parts of. I wish Shirley had had more of a storyline. She had some fun stuff to do but her big picture seemed kinda muddled and vague - starting the season with the revelation that Andre had taken the kids and left and just letting that be with no follow up or development is disappointing, especially knowing she won't be back for season 6.

Just started season 6, and it occurs to me that what I mostly remember about it is how hard it was to watch Yahoo Screen, I have very little memory of the actual episodes and what I do remember is snippets more than, say, emotional content so this should be interesting.

Yeah, I think I didn't actually see any of these episodes all the way through when they aired. Streamed. Whatever. THere are definitely scenes I remember but not enough to string together to make any kind of sense. But I'm glad I did now. The finale is really good and sweet. THe season as a whole has a season 1 feel, but also kinda feels like fanfic, and that works for me.

Would stand in line to watch the movie assuming some sort of civilization is happening that allows for that.

I usually am not good at ranking things, but I feel like this is both pretty stable and a satisfying pattern: 3-2-1-6-5-4. I should make that a combination to get into...something.