Last night’s episode entitled, Community, the show should have been called Lukewarm, because that’s the epitome of what it was just so, so. No big moments, no big twists, just medium through and through. Fear Itself the show is starting to be that in itself actually. Just, medium.

The episode starred, Superman’s Brandon Routh, who is kind of what the show called for, typical all-American Joe, who is just attractive enough and then again just average enough to mix into this storyline with enough believability. The first scene in the movie we see Routh’s character, Bobby, in a shot straight out of the Fugitive. Only thing missing was Tommy Lee Jones. Tommy Lee would have caught him immediately, by the way. Then we get a flashback from five months earlier. Can I say to the future writers of this series, please cool it with the flashbacks, they drive me nuts. I’ve watched too many Lost episodes, I guess. Because, I’m over it. So, in this flashback we learn Bobby and his wife Tracey are a young couple just starting out who want to have a baby. But, Tracey doesn’t want to raise their baby in the city. I’m not sure what city this is, we are never really told. So, she convinces Bobby to look at houses in the suburbs.

So, they pack their little Volvo station wagon and off they go. They don’t have any kids yet, but they got the station wagon covered. Was it a station wagon? Seriously, I couldn’t tell. But, that tells you how boring the start of this episode is, I’m obsessing over the make of a car. Ok, on with the story. They arrive at the gated community known as “The Commons.” And it’s just what you expect little kids playing, nice manicured laws, really cute houses, you know suburbia. But, you already know there is something wrong, because Bobby and Tracey could never afford this type of house right now.

The realtor is a dead give away that the Commons is not going to be all barbeques and kids’ birthday parties, it’s a little too happy around this place. But, Bobby and Tracey push forward and buy the house anyway. Oh, yeah, the house is huge and fully furnished, right down to the rugs and throw pillows, really who leaves all their stuff when they move? But, Candace, the realtor simply says the previous residents had to leave all their furniture. It’s a clue of course of the events to come. On moving day, the entire neighborhood shows up to welcome Bobby and Tracey. Then, we met the Fabers who are probably the most interesting part of the story. The husband, Phil drinks a lot and you get the idea he really doesn’t enjoy his life at all. Another clue of things to come.

Skip ahead a bit and after a few months and still no baby for Bobby and Tracey and the community starts to reveal itself as basically what it is, a cult. The community judges the residents personal lives and dispenses punishments accordingly. And we basically find there is no way out, no matter what. Bobby however springs a plan into action that honestly made absolutely no sense to start with. He basically got his best friends wife killed, I think. That was one of the many questions the story left us with. But we end the way we started, sort of, we find ourselves watching Superman, I mean, Bobby running in the woods trying to get away. I won’t reveal what was supposed to be the big twist, I’ll just say, HUH? Where’d that come from?
Kind of like last week’s show, the episode was a shade on the boring side, they promised us a thriller and it never really built up enough steam or suspense to call it that at all. The episode was written by Kelly Kennemer, who in checking her IMDB, seems non-prolific to say the least. And sorry Kelly, but it shows. May I suggest she read Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery. Now that’s a thriller about a crazy community, done right. The episode’s director was Mary Harron who directed American Psycho, so this was a huge let down for me. There were certain elements in the show that were a little reminiscent of American Psycho. For instance there is a pig mask used throughout the episode, a nod to Patrick Bateman’s mask perhaps. Maybe, maybe not. I don’t know.

Overall the seventh episode was just as I said lukewarm. I give it 6/10, if I were rating it. Next week we get Skin and Bones where a family goes to desperate measures to protect themselves from their possessed patriarch.

Hope you guys watch, I will, they switched Swingtown to Friday nights, so I have nothing else to watch. Stupid move CBS. Even I’m not at home on Friday nights and I have no life at all.

And now something good from Mary Harron.

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