So it looks like we weren't living in the darkest timeline after all. Community, the sitcom about a group of misfits finding friendship in a down-on-its-luck community college (but really about a whole lot more than that), has been dangling off the precipice of cancellation almost from the start. It was shunted around the schedules, had episode orders slashed and - perhaps worst of all - had its creator and guiding light, Dan Harmon, kicked out of the captain's seat following a third go-around that was substantially more successful critically than commercially. "The gas leak year" of season four was easily the show at its lowest ebb, a bad cover version of what made the first few seasons so unique. Everything felt weird, awkward, with an knock-off feel to the characterisation and a misunderstanding of the "weirdness" that fuelled the show and it's pop cultural lexicon. Not that any season had been totally perfect - Harmon, lest we forget, was in charge during the production of "Advanced Gay" and "Urban Matrimony and the Sandwich Arts" - but you know what? This season got close. Season 5 of Community was, in many ways, the best yet. That's despite losing two members of the principal cast, yet another truncated number of episodes and the now-traditional ending that could either be a season or a series finale. Let's not think about that, though; let's think about how cool it was. Cool cool cool.