NBC was right to suspend Community. BLASPHEMY! Except that I think Fox was right to kill Arrested Development when it did (in retrospect), so maybe I’m just too close to see what’s clearly best. Still… ONE MORE SEASON!

Community was never built for the long haul. It may have borrowed its structure from the standard American sitcom, but it’s a different kind of show, one that values style and intellectual content over characters and emotional content. It spends a lot of time being everything else, but less time establishing what it is—you can only parody for so long. That doesn’t make it a failure. Community succeeded, just at a different goal.