Community: 10 Reasons Why Season 5 Is MASSIVELY Underrated

At the beginning of the series, the traits of the eight leads could be summed up in one or two words. As the series progressed, the nuances and behaviours of each character expanded, and it's in the fifth season that some of those traits are either confronted or reach their conclusion.

Troy and Abed go through emotional growth as one leaves Greendale behind while the other learns to live without their best friend; Britta has her principles as a fleeting activist called out by people who actually help their communities; Abed gets a dressing down off by Buzz about living in his own world; and an entire episode focuses on Jeff's neurosis as he accepts that he is getting older.

Annie's precocious nature proved to be her hindrance throughout as she leads the Save Greendale Committee. The show informs us that even in sitcoms, not everything can be tied up with a neat bow, and the characters have started to realize that.

The writing of Community always did a great job of pulling apart television tropes and reconstructing them in a clever way, but where the magic really resides in the show is the dissection of its characters and what makes them tick.