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Jeff wrote:Walton Goggins has joined the cast in some capacity for this season.

Goggins and Jonathan Banks are going to great additions to the upcoming season. Can't wait!

Andre Jurieu wrote:Maybe this will free up some salary for them to throw at John Oliver.

He's back!

Yes! He does immoral-functioning-British-alcoholic so incredibly well that it would be a crime not to bring him back.

The Russos appear to be back too.

Double-Yes! Or I guess triple-yes, if it's both Russos coming back (it's still weird to think they will direct a big-budget comic-book action movie).

Season Five trailer

(And don't forget to celebrate Christmas today, since it's December 10th)

From the executive producer of Community Seasons 1-3

"They invented fibromyalgia and the cure for fibromyalgia" - This line alone restores my faith that Harmon is back in form.

An interview with Gillian Jacobs, detailing her childhood feminism and her dream project, a Jean Seberg biopic (which I may have to finance if nobody else does it).

Better ratings for Community last nite than any other NBC comedy, even if the numbers only matched last Season's finale

So happy to have it back, I'm sure the positive buzz will result in ratings improvements over the coming weeks. At least I can hope!

I really, really enjoyed those two episodes. Community + Harmon = greatness.

I struggled to get through the premiere, trying to push all of these characters back into Greendale was just awkward. I did like Jeff's quip about Britta's (d)evolution into an airhead. The second episode was great though and the show in fine form.

Second episode (minus the embarrassing, godawful, made me want to blind myself Nic Cage impression that went on forever) was full of laugh out loud moments and made me far more optimistic than the lackluster premiere too-- though season three also took a couple episodes to get back in the swing of things too and there was a lot of heavy lifting Harmon needed to do here. Props on getting Zach Braff to record a fake Scrubs monolog, though-- the circle on my constant diss whenever the show goes in the wrong direction is complete!

Oh man. This week's episode was such terrific Fincher parody. So good to have Harmon back.

It's weird: these have been really solid episodes, but I haven't laughed very much at them. Mostly chuckle and appreciate their cleverness. They're just really watchable. I say weird because usually the mildly funny concept episodes are awkward and cringe-worthy rather than watchable.

Did this episode have a tag? Comcast just stopped the ep after the end card parodying Zodiac. Duncan and the Dean had a few funny lines but I didn't think this was very good, too much juvenile humor, and I didn't find the Troy rape victim gags amusing at all

I thought Britta had the best lines actually.

The tag was a pretty funny Starburns thing, I guess giving you an idea of what he's been up to all this time.

This was probably the best episode since Regional Holiday Music, or maybe even Remedial Chaos Theory. Just fantastic, hilarious and emotionally gutting when it needed to be.

When he eventually leaves, I am really going to miss Donald Glover's contribution to the show. He had the two most hilarious line-readings of last night's episode, both of which prompted me to pause my PVR while I laughed.