Season 3 - Episode 5
NBC (US)
Previous Community Hallowe'en specials have given us "Introduction to Statistics" and the quite brilliant "Epidemiology", so it was with great anticipation I watched "Horror Fiction in Seven Spooky Steps". Whether it was the fact it had to follow the last episode "Remedial Chaos Theory" - probably the best episode this show has ever made, saying a lot given some of the episodes they've pulled off - or the fact that Community's themed episodes are usually so good, but "Horror Fiction..." just fell a little flat for me.
That said, this was anything but a bad episode of television, in fact, even a lacklustre esode of Community is better than most of what gets shown on TV. The theme of the gang telling a series of increasingly ridiculous horror stories to see which one of the group had tested as a sociopath in an anonymous psychological test. The story gave us Alison Brie in a variety of revealing outfits - never a bad thing - and gangster versions of Troy and Abed. And while the individual stories were funny, the whole episode lacked a real flow.
The reveal at the end was cute, they were all sociopathic barring Abed, but while previous episodes of this ilk - and the four episodes preceeding it this season - have given us positive development, "Horror Fiction..." felt like a filler. Albeit a very good filler.
*** 1/2
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