“Let’s talk about evil.” – Britta Perry (…Well, let’s talk about some other things first. We’ll get to evil eventually, I promise.) One of Community’s biggest strengths is its veritable wellspring of thematic versatility. As a television show set on a college campus, it’s always had a sort of built-in proclivity for conveying overarching lessons, morals of the story, and general larger truths. Because along with that academic setting comes the natural expectation that the characters are going to learn […]

Egos can be dangerous things. Inflated, they can make us forget how connected and indebted we are to the people we love. Bruised and shattered, they bring us crashing back down to the glaring reality that we aren’t perfect, flawless, or even close to ideal. The tough part is that after floating so high above such a difficult reality and suddenly finding ourselves back in the middle of it, it can take a while to catch our bearings. We suddenly […]