{"id":5999,"date":"2014-05-09T19:04:57","date_gmt":"2014-05-10T01:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=5999"},"modified":"2014-05-09T19:04:57","modified_gmt":"2014-05-10T01:04:57","slug":"fiveseasonsandnomovie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/fiveseasonsandnomovie\/","title":{"rendered":"#FiveSeasonsAndNoMovie?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/community-jeff-winger-dean-pelton.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6000\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/community-jeff-winger-dean-pelton.jpg\" alt=\"community-jeff-winger-dean-pelton\" width=\"600\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/community-jeff-winger-dean-pelton.jpg 600w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/community-jeff-winger-dean-pelton-300x233.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>Exactly <a title=\"RIP Community\" href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/rip-community\/\">one year ago<\/a>, <em>Community<\/em> 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. \u00a0The next day, however, NBC surprised everyone by giving the show a surprise renewal for a fifth season. \u00a0A season which even brought Harmon back in to the fold. \u00a0While creatively the show improved, moving closer to what it had been in the first three seasons, the ratings continued to be depressing.<\/p>\n<p>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. \u00a0It 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. \u00a0The next day, however, NBC surprised everyone by giving the show a surprise renewal for a fifth season. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[3402,245,2581,500],"class_list":["post-5999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-television","tag-chevy-chase","tag-community","tag-dan-harmon","tag-nbc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6001,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5999\/revisions\/6001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}