Exactly one year ago, Community looked to be ending on a down note after a fourth season run adrift due to the firing of creator Dan Harmon and, to a lesser extent, the loss of Chevy Chase.  The next day, however, NBC surprised everyone by giving the show a surprise renewal for a fifth season.  A season which even brought Harmon back in to the fold.  While creatively the show improved, moving closer to what it had been in the first three seasons, the ratings continued to be depressing.

Today, NBC announced that there would be no such reprieve this year, cancelling the show and dashing the hopes of its fans who had taken a throwaway line from an second season episode (Six Seasons and a Movie!) and turned it into a rallying cry during the annual wait to see if the show would return.  It would be easy to look at this as a day of disappointment, but the DVDs of 3 great years (along side 1 decent year and 1 better left forgotten) will live on when the show should have, and likely would have, been cancelled much earlier.