I definitely think Alison is the best actor in the group, I feel like if this table read were a real-life production of an episode, she wouldn't have needed to do any additional takes at all heh. Great timing and comedic ability. But Gillian and Danny are a very, very close second. And then Donald is the comedy king when it comes to overreactions and overall silliness EDIT I almost forgot about Jim Rash, though, he's also incredible at comedy
Im up to season 6 now on my rewatch. The first couple of episodes were pretty boring and didnt have many laughs, but then the episode where they gave a dog a degree had me dying.
Season 6 was interesting for me. I pretty much re-watched seasons 1-4, and then 5 and 6 were new for me. 6 feels like a pretty much different show. The bloated run times don't really serve the episodes and the characters kind of lose the edges they had in the first two seasons especially. But I laughed plenty and the paintball episode is wonderful! And the VR stuff with the Dean had me rolling. Those animations were perfect.
Does anyone else occasionally skip the series finale? It's the perfect ending and a great episode, but man, it really hits me in the feels these days I keep watching this show on a loop ever since dropping on Netflix. Probably on my 5th Netflix watch so far on top of the million times I've cycled it on Hulu
You absolutely nailed this lol. For what it's worth Chevy Chase was really great on this show too for the first two or so seasons imo
Chevy was good at his role, but he's such a piece of shit in real life I can't really divorce that from the character, especially when that character pretty much becomes a caricature of what he was like in real life by S2. I like S1 Pierce well enough but after that he's insufferable to me
Pierce didn’t really have any redeeming qualities as a character or friend to the others, so it’s always confounding watching the other characters forgive his actions as if he’s worth being in their lives. He never really clicks well with any of them, and through most of s2 he’s literally the antagonist lol. Like I always thought it was bizarre that he calls Annie his favorite because he did very little to ever show that he actively liked her. In the second ep he and Jeff have to do a Spanish project together and the only reason Jeff pulls through for him at the last minute is because Britta guilts him into realizing that Pierce is incredibly lonely, and that was a good foreshadowing of every subsequent “emotional” Pierce moment: accepting not because they like anything about him, but because they see in him their own potential loneliness
Tbf Annie stuck up for him when the group wanted to get rid of him and I think he grew respect of her independence after she returned his check to help her with rent I agree he never really clicks well with anyone, though. It was also jarring when they went full-on asshole with him in eps like D&D, not that I don't absolutely love that episode
otoh Pierce choosing to hump Neil’s sword and menacingly changing Neil’s shape to “fat” will never not be hilarious to me
I honestly very easily forget that he is the same Chevy Chase that I see in all those comedies from the 70s/80s. Like obviously he looks different but even when his old characters are buffoons they are still very quick-witted and charming in a way that Pierce never comes across
Curious what the metal pole next to him is? As much of a jerk as he is, I hope he's ok and that's not some kinda IV drip
Totally forgot Matt Berry/Laszlo played the grifting professor in S6. Just watched the ep last night.
I liked the absurd sequence at the end when they're chanting "Hot Dogs! Hot Dogs!" and Chang yells "Ohhh because I Can't. Be. TRUSTED!"
I love when it did the flashback/revelation of Abed swapping out the briefcase and it was just like the complete opposite of sneaky, you could see the shelf rocking back and forth and him fumbling around with it lol
Finally got to watch the table read, really fun. Dan talking shit on the writing kind of rubbed me the wrong way when I realized he didn't write the episode and it wasn't just self-deprecating humor.