A quick review of this week's "Community" (which you can find, as usual, on Yahoo Screen) coming up just as soon as I teach the reverse Jim Gaffigan... In terms of the emotional story at the heart of it, "Grifting 101" wasn't appreciably deeper than last week's "Intro to Recycled Cinema." Yes, Jeff gets jealous of anyone who may seem cooler than he is, as everyone called him out on when he was mocking the class, but that was still a fairly thin excuse to pay homage to various visual and plot motifs of con artist films like "The Sting" and "The Grifters"(*). (*) It's been at least 15 years since I watched "The Grifters," but my memory of it doesn't track with Abed's assessment that it's surprisingly light on actual grifts. Anyone with a more recent viewing care to weigh in? Fortunately, the parody elements, the guest performance by Matt Berry as the new professor,...
- 5/5/2015
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Hitfix
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