Best Television Show Tournament Round 1h: Stranger Things (54) vs Community (75)

[Chris]

Stranger Things
Plot: When a young boy vanishes, a small town uncovers a mystery involving secret experiments, terrifying supernatural forces and one strange little girl.
Genres: Science fiction, Horror, Mystery, Drama
Created by: The Duffer Brothers
Starring: Winona Ryder, David Harbour, Finn Wolfhard, Millie Bobby Brown, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin, Natalia Dyer, Charlie Heaton, Cara Buono, Matthew Modine, Noah Schnapp, Sadie Sink, Joe Keery, Dacre Montgomery, Sean Astin, Paul Reiser
Maya Hawke, Priah Ferguson, Brett Gelman
On-air: July 15, 2016 – present


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Community
Plot: A suspended lawyer is forced to enroll in a community college with an eccentric staff and student body.
Genres: Sitcom, Surreal humor, Satire
Created by: Dan Harmon
Starring: Joel McHale, Gillian Jacobs, Danny Pudi, Yvette Nicole Brown, Alison Brie, Donald Glover, Ken Jeong, Chevy Chase, Jim Rash
On-air: September 17, 2009 – June 2, 2015​

 

[Y2Jayne]

Community was overrated IMO
It was moderately fun at first but the last two or three seasons were tedious to finish.

 

[The Gipper]

I stopped watching community because Ken Jeong was annoying as fuck ngl.

 

[Jimmy King]

I like Community even though I never finished it, but I prefer Stranger Things so that gets my vote.

 

[Keith]

Nice match, guess both defined their different niches. ST gets my vote just for how epic it is and how it feels like true water cooler tv.

 

[Marty McFourth]

Tough match for Community really, but yeah Stranger Things I absolutely adore. It's just everything I want in a show basically. I love the synth theme, the setting, the atmosphere and the characters they did a really good developing for the most part.

I bingewatched the heck out of it when it first watched on Netflix, it's been consistently one of those shows I will absolutely resubscribe to their service just to watch it.

 

[Dubble J]

Community seems like the kind of show I would've liked but somehow I could never get into it despite multiple attempts. Meanwhile, love Stranger Things so it gets my vote.

 

[Hoss]

I'm hurt

 

[John McHenry]

Community is nice and fun. But Stranger things has everything horror, drama, comedy. Community made some attempts at doing everything but the end of the day it was always about the laughs.

 

[Canadian Dragon]

Community is great the first few seasons. horrible matchup though, ST is majorly loved

 

[Spider Matthau]

2 shows that love making references to other popular things. At least I get all of Stranger Things where sometimes I gotta Google Community just to find out the reference was a callback to an earlier season when a character was doing something out of focus in the background behind Joel McHale's forehead or some shit and there is such thing as being too smart with the refetences and a fella oughta be aware of it.

When Troy departed it lost a lot of its charm for me too. That said Stranger Things isn't finished and I might go with Community in the future but for now I'll go with the cool horror show.

 

[Gentleman Jake]

And this is why Community gets my vote

Also I tried to get into Stranger Things but never could


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[Hoss]

I thought Stranger Things was boring, I quit after 2 seasons. Respect that folks see that differently though.