Community: 10 Reasons Why Season 5 Is MASSIVELY Underrated

Bringing the characters back for another year of Community College needed a valid reason, and after the season five premiere established that the Study Group would cease and soon begin the Save Greendale Committee, the show wandered into a direction that felt fresh but also inevitable.

Greendale was known by the students and teachers as a garbage fire of a school, and we've seen throughout the show's run various characters stepping up to making their Greendale Community just a little bit better. Having the team all band together now to save the school was a poignant arc, with a clever ending.

Every season prior concluded with some explosive and dramatic consequence, but the fifth season blended realism with drama as saving the school actually harmed it. Fixing Greendale gave the school value for once, and so the Committee bands together to stop Greendale from being sold off.

The show could have seen the Committee fix one other problem with the school each episode and then high five in the season finale when all is fixed, but to give a negative side to that aspect is a consequence and a twist no one saw coming.