'Community' season 5 premiere review: As good as it gets

Yeah, it's all demented -- Harmon's voice, not the fans (so much) -- but there is something very specific and impossible to define about that voice and style, doubly impossible to mimic. Tonight's two-part opener sounds almost exactly right for this reason -- the non-sequiturs, word play, pop culture refs and absolute disdain for anything bordering on sitcom logic are all part of a mad dash through the mind of Harmon, and past all of the stuff he finds so gloriously idiotic. He's abetted by a cast that knows his rhythms in their sleep, and by newcomer Banks, who's just about flawless.

The first half-hour ("Repilot") is very funny. The second ("Introduction to Teaching") is simply hilarious.

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