The Good Place on NBC

"they're taking a big risk with s2 though, how it's basically incomprehensible without having watched all of s1"

is anything really a risk anymore when you've got the binge dollars coming in? it's on netflix and hulu. and probably amazon and wherever else.

i wonder how much a network makes letting netflix show their show.

michael is clearly not all-knowing

GF noted how nice it is to be gently lowered back into reality after Twin Peaks via The Good Place

michael is clearly not all-knowing

honestly this is the only aspect of the show's world that bugs me, like people can have private conversations that the architects can't see or hear? this is a tiny quibble, though.

I interpret this as Michael not having been given the resources to properly monitor everyone, because he's working on a project his supervisors don't approve of, even though if it's successful it will really help the organization -- when everyone is torturing him or herself, you don't need such a huge staff.

"when everyone is torturing him or herself, you don't need such a huge staff."

uh, except for the town of people who are in on it? that's a lot of overtime.

That's just for now, though. Initial outlay to get the project up and running.

honestly this is the only aspect of the show's world that bugs me

Well, they keep suggesting that Michael is actually terrible at his job, so that's seems like a good enough explanation.

My guess is that the season will work towards the gang and Michael teaming up against the larger aggressor (being Holt's husband from Brooklyn 99).

There is a typically TV critic indulgent thread on Twitter at the moment - they've decided it's a TV show about storytelling and other TV shows. I get the inclination but that is a godawful boring take on it.

i'm rewatching on netflix and it definitely works better as a binge. a chapter a week is fine but less satisfying.

Michael isn't supposed to be omniscient - he's the guy setting up the Sims world and letting it run.

they've decided it's a TV show about storytelling and other TV shows. I get the inclination but that is a godawful boring take on it.

"Area stoner thinks everyone on TV also stoned."

That speech Michael gave to his minions was all-time! “Sure, we could fire up the penis-flattener...”

Just blew through the entire series this weekend. I paid no attention to the episode count so I was shocked when I realized the first season was over.

Not much to say that hasn't already been said. It's great, and I wish I hadn't sat on it for so long. Recognizing glimmers of oneself in the main characters is kind of a 'fun' game (the familiarity of Eleanor's relationship with her coworkers stung a bit).

DJP spoiled this for me on Twitter
is it still worth watching?

Yes

for janet alone, yes

I spoiled myself by peeking at this thread. The impact was lessened slightly but the twist almost seems to be the jumping-off point of the series rather than a Shyamalan-esque 'DID I BLOW YOUR MIND?!?' moment. So, yeah, definitely worth watching.

yeah, and upon rewatching the whole first series takes on a whole new tone

Main cast aside (all excellent), it's lovely to be reminded how amazing Adam Scott is at playing a total douche. He has such a range, that one.

That's really his best mode

It took me way too many hours to realize that this is No Exit: The Sitcom.

This is the only show for which I will wade through ads on nbc.com (which continually crash the stream)

I am hopeful for more amazing Jianyu/Jason content

This show cements for me the opinion that I should always make an effort to check out Michael Schur-driven shows.

DJP spoiled this for me on Twitter
is it still worth watching?

1. Sorry!
2. Absolutely. Knowing the "twist" is what made me start watching the show and it is super, super hilarious regardless.

It's beside the point but now I find myself wondering what all the other 'extras' are doing with their time when not interacting with the humans. Just eating Hawaiian pizza I guess?

I am interested to see how they flesh out the cosmology. Like, assuming those people are actually demons or something like it, how much of a drag must it be to behave like such paragons of humanity all the time and not bite people or flatten their penises? I expect we'll be seeing more Denise-ing as the experiment continues.

my ongoing reaction was "these people can't even be real" so I'm sticking with that impression

One of the things that Team Fremulon have perfected is making compliments as funny as insults, especially between women. I love that.

here's an abridged version of the full list of food puns i turned in with my first draft of tonight's #TheGoodPlace episode pic.twitter.com/x335NYNN09

— Megan Amram (@meganamram) September 29, 2017

"Camembert-bie Let's Go Party" is the Galaxy Brain of restaurant puns.

Greatly improved second ep, good direction for the show to go!
Also"biscotti pippen"

If this wasn't so long it'd be worth polling. "Squab goals."

Now I really want to see a Bob's Burgers/The Good Place crossover.

Sushi and the Banshees <3

Just finished Chapter 16. This show keeps reinventing itself and its character relationships so quickly I wonder how long it will take for the story to burn itself out. That said, I love it so much.

Mindy is such a great tertiary character, btw.

"You walked in on me while I was masturbating. Or I walked in on you while I was masturbating."

i was reluctant to check this out because i thought it was by some pushing daisies people, and then it seemed super like it was even though it turns out i was wrong about that, but i guess it has turned out ok anyway, except that i am kind of expecting it to become a little insufferable or nauseating like pushing daisies. maybe the lack of a tru luv theme will ensure that it can't.

My mom liked Pushing Daisies, but I never watched it. I can guarantee you my mom would hate this show.

w . . . kiw mindy

Same.

watched S2E2 last night and i really do kinda like the wobbly nature of things. i don't know what is gonna happen. and i dig that. i also kinda like the idea of them pretending to be miserable for a whole season just to help michael which makes no sense! but what else are they gonna do?

and i loved michael confiding in jason and jason having no idea what he was talking about. "i understand the word rat...and the word jason..."

Xp Tru luv theme is very much on the way, don't doubt

this show.... is not good

You're right. How could we have all been so wrong. Let's stop watching it, guys.

it has problems. jianyu is/was a terrible actor for instance.

He's meant to be an incompetent idiot, not a successful mastermind of disguise

How would Caviar on a Stick even work?

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Pushing Daisies was beloved by romantics who find sex repulsive. There's nothing romantic about The Good Place.

Star crossed lovers meet in hell, find each other through hundreds of incarnations isn't romantic?

They share a predicament, not a soul bond. The show explicitly mocks the idea.

honestly one of the all-time great performances

K i'm just starting the third season and am just completely amazed by this show
that it exists at all (I imagine pitched as Lost: The Sitcom!) and on was on network television, that it gets rebooted effectively every year, and that it's so awesome and the cast is so so good

it's a very good show!
without being a killjoy, allow me to forewarn that i don't think it sticks the landing and gets mired down in its own sentimentality too much for its own good. that said, i watched it weekly and didn't binge so i'm curious what your take is.

Loved this show massively!

I can easily understand how you felt though - if i had to watch this show week to week ala... well, Lost, it could've driven me crazy, especially the last two seasons having the Batman '66-esque cliffhangers for several episodes in a row to end them all. The last season I really kept wondering how the show wasn't ending from like, episode 8 of 13 onward. But it's perfect as a binging show and provided some desperately needed positive vibes for me in this time. (Next up: Ted Lasso.)

Yes the show gets REALLY sentimental, but I was totally okay with it honestly. I wholeheartedly bought into the show's concept - as lampshaded clearly in one of the final episodes - that for all this thought about philosophy and what good and bad people deserve in the afterlife, without that emotional underpinning it would've rung much more hollow. (And just as importantly, as a sitcom, it hit on a pretty much every level - the characters, cast, absurdism, etc. all worked and the show didn't go on past its welcome.) Ultimately, I bought in.

Still feeling a little wistful sadness from the finale, but ultimately very happy to go through all those Jeremy Berimys. Gonna skim through this thread to see how people felt in real time...

JORTLES

all seems fair on that assessment

Former Jacksonville Jaguars QB Blake Bortles says he 'quietly' retired

should've announced it by throwing a molotov cocktail at a boat

Really enjoyed the first episode of A Man on the Inside. Love Ted Danson so much

Finished this now. So, so good. It doesn't have as many laughs as The Good Place (although still has plenty) but it's charming, funny, sad and poignant and Ted Danson is an absolute joy throughout.

Good to know, will give this a shot someday, hopefully

we binged it in a few nights, it's easygoing and enjoyable, would happily watch a second series.

blake bortles is still only 32

jets need a qb

namaste