The Good Place on NBC

also his friend Pillboy, who is DOPE

I lol every time he talks about Pillboy

also: wings

I want to order wings now.

wings are dope

It was a good call.

i don't know about chidi, making him senegalese (?) but coming up with an in-world excuse for playing him as a culturally unmarked american (or i guess, culturally highbrow = cosmopolitan, conventional social identity left behind) plays exactly on the nose for his portrayal of a philosophy professor (seriously, pitch-perfect), but it also sets them up to not have any need to address black identity.

everyone is equal in death

- thomas hobbes

Chidi should speak French in the flashbacks. Where was he supposed to live? It's hard to tell because you get his grown friend, the Australian professor, the English-speaking girlfriend in bed...

we binged the first season in like 2 days - i like it a lot

i think he moved around a lot doing post-docs and shit

I demand more expository rigor from my NBC sitcoms.

yeah, i don't really care. SOME of the animals on earth on Z Nation turn into zombies. but apparently most don't.

Not that it's a life and death matter but I wondered that too about where Chidi was supposed to have actually lived and taught. It makes sense that it would be in an English-speaking First World country but then he could have just given that as his reason for speaking English in ep 1.

I mean, idk, maybe it was at a Senegalese uni where an Australian guy moved to teach and they just translated the flashbacks.

everyone can understand everyone else, in death

like, it's an american TV show so it's finna be in english regardless of where the characters are actually supposed to be from. plus, y'know, they're all dead. so it would make some sort of sense that souls would be able to understand each other in the fantasy, imaginary universe of this afterlife.

idk sounds like a cop-out to avoid addressing the armenian genocide

if they r souls why do they not float thru doors and how do they drink chowder from chowder fountains and are the clams ghosts also, damn this shit is sloppy

That part makes sense and was explicitly stated in the first episode, as far as the afterlife scenes go. It's Chidi's flashbacks (to his Earthbound lifetime) that are more confusing.
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And part of the point was that they did feel the need to explain in ep 1 that Chidi was speaking French but was being translated since it was the afterlife, after Eleanor said "you speak excellent English". If, on Earth, his English was good enough to have lectured on advanced topics, he could have just given that reason. Again, it's little stuff, just thoughts that come up when we're posting on the Internet about a TV show.

How do lava demons even fit into human-sized skin suits, ffs. If they don't address this outrage immediately, I'm out.

so you just want the earthbound parts of show w chidi in french to keep it honest then

I did crack up at the demons out of character in the alleyway hanging out, with one of them in his normal form just chilling

I mean, I was just going off something scott was saying in the first place, but, now that I feel like I need to explain, I just think it's confusing where it was that he was supposed to have been a professor. Around 2:45 into s1e7, you see him on campus talking to his Australian-accented colleague about his boots. Most aspects of the setting of the scene - the somewhat diverse but predominantly white student body, their clothes, the vegetation - make me think of a university campus somewhere in the West. They look like what I see every day, not like any of these pictures: https://www.google.com/search?q=senegal+university+campus&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjyxfHuwtfWAhVEyoMKHa69DMIQ_AUICigB&biw=1173&bih=671

It may well be something that they will explain. A lot of the things that seemed confusing in s1 did end up making sense when the twist came around.

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And, like, this wouldn't even be that weird:

so you just want the earthbound parts of show w chidi in french to keep it honest then

Master of None did this with flashbacks to India, for example.

I feel like there was a throwaway line that explained where he was teaching, but maybe not?

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Master of None was a Netflix series, the rules are going to be different on a network sitcom. The most subtitles on a network show this year probably came in the first Star Trek episode.

Doesn't Chidi run through the whole locations of Universities etc thing when he first meets Eleanor in one of the very early episodes but she fails to listen to anything he says or at least remember it.

I, too, failed to listen

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Oh yeah, "my work took me all over the place: Australia, Hong Kong, Paris." So Eleanor was just being dumb when she commented on his excellent English but I've got that lots of times too.

you misspelled racist :)

i feel like they made jason TOO dumb in the last episode even for him. he was like a dog trapped in a human body. that whole episode was pretty much in one room.

tahani's death was a little too dumb too! disguised as a waiter? really? i kinda hope this show doesn't get too dumb. guess it depends on who is writing the episode.

I kept thinking the most glaring question not asked by characters was 'are there kids in the good place?' or indeed figuring out the real deal based on their absence. Schur's understandable explanation tho - http://www.ibtimes.com/good-place-creator-explains-why-there-are-no-children-elderly-people-shows-afterlife-2477423

I’m only not quite done with this latest episode but... someone just remembered the cocaine. This bodes well.

Oh, never mind

http://www.vulture.com/2017/10/the-good-place-janet-on-the-twist-and-the-audition.html

mindy and janet rule school

So, as hinted, will Season 3 be their attempts to fit into the good Good Place, but finding they brought their hell with them?

otm about the varying quality having to do with writing; the cast always brings it and the concept holds my attention but there are times when the writing feels WAY off

saw that gr80’s buddy (I’m remembering that correctly, right) cord was a story editor on this new one

someone opined that janet is god

i don't think that's quite right, but she's obviously something key

also it'd be funnier if mindy were god

i give this week's episode 12 out of 13

Michael’s slow motion home alone-style freakout

felt like this week (and last week to a degree) were a bit of a dip in quality but I can't tell if that's because I'm watching it week to week ratehr than the entire season in one marathon which is what I did in season 1. maybe season 1 felt that way too if you didn't watch it all at once.

Ha, I thought of Munch's The Scream. (Maybe that's obvious.) xp

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Does it have a lot of butt-touching?

I've been on ILX long enough to know that I don't share its sense of humor, borne out by the fact that I didn't find the first season funny at all but have loled a bunch with season 2.