The Good Place on NBC

Not really. The flashbacks were a device to let us know what these characters did to merit a spot in the Bad Place; now that we know, continuing to flash back doesn’t give us anything other than funny vignettes and think this show is being more ambitious than that.

If anything, they should continue flashing back on Michael and show how more of how he ended up being susceptible/amenable to learning from humans. It’s clear he’s not like the other demons just from the elaborate lengths he went to in creating the neighborhood; was he always different or did something spark imagination in him? If the latter, is it something they could expose the other demons to and get more allies?

Jameela Jamil has now said that Tahani is modeled after a real life person whose name she won't divulge, but apparently they know each other.

Which is probably a perfectly safe thing to do, since there's no way a real life Tahani would watch an American sitcom.

flashbacks were a device

An average viewer tuning in to season 2 would be utterly lost. Devices are useful in episodic TV.

but the episodes are chapters, so it’s very strongly implied viewers shouldn’t start at chapter 14

for a second I thought Eleanor had dropped the first "binch" on TV

i too am a total smoke show

^ so good

not skin

So tell me Chidi, how do ethical philosophers feel about murder?

Tahani is quite redolent of someone I knew at university. Hmm

I'd say it's not completely impossible that it could be this person, in fact, given she's an exact contemporary of Jamil's, from Hampstead, an upper-class British Pakistani and a fairly self-regarding Oxbridge type...

i could totally binge-watch that last episode five times in a row. so much goodness.

https://www.gq.com/story/the-good-place-darcy-carden

Acting is such a sad little desperate job where every job interview is you begging for a job. And it happens every day, and you have no control, and it's just this sad little thirsty job. The trick is to be confident and to not be thirsty. That's how you get the job. It's a fucking mindfuck. Don't get into it.

I love knowing that Ted Danson is a "giddy little weirdo" for some reason.

imo the presidents on mount rushmore _should_ have butts on the other side

^ I said this after that scene

btw made it a whole 30 seconds on before Hulu buffered this week

via vpn from the other side of the planet?

btw netflix australia has it now, same day

I'm in America

as we like to call it, The Somewhat OK Place

I've noticed that Hulu has become terrible across the board; I almost never use it anymore.

kind of a letdown that the jacksonville jaguars are good this year

another sign that we are in The Bad Place

I'm in America

― shackling the masses with plastic-wrapped snack picks (sic), Tuesday, 7 November 2017 04:35 (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i mean, this show is good but it's not that good

Checks out

http://pbs.twimg.com/media/DN_RZAkU8AEa-yY.jpg

derek!

Exclusive: #TheGoodPlace Renewed for Season 3 at NBC https://t.co/2zuXRyPtZR pic.twitter.com/pJXWRqu6MF

— Hollywood Reporter (@THR) November 21, 2017

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Alignment meme is extremely accurate

Still only chuckle twice or three times an episode, but I've been enjoying season 2 with my younger one. I just saw "The Trolly Problem" (or whatever it was called) and really like the philosophical paradox of pretending you're being tortured so that the real torturers don't find out and torture you for real. Between that and the meta commentary on sitcom conventions there's enough for me to get into.

the good news

excellent news!

the trolley picture with the blade on a pole killing the single guy on the other track still makes me laugh regularly

I think it works because two of the dismembered bodies are shrugging. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

yay @ renewal!

Watched six episodes. So far my favourite live action US sitcom since Always Sunny was at its prime.

That was a long hiatus - hope it hasn't ruined any momentum it was building. Good new episode.

I'm caught up now. My initial reaction may have been a little overenthusiastic, but season 1 is pretty magnificent - great jokes, great story, very fresh feeling.

Season 2 thus far OTOH... Excellent first two eps (the endless reboots were hysterical), but the it seems to have been running out of steam a bit since. For me the humour lies in wringing every last ounce of ridiculousness out of the premise rather than the minutae of the character's relationships, and the emphasis on the latter in recent episodes has made the show a tad more generic. Also, Eleanor, Tahani and Jason are starting to annoy me, though I still like Michael, Janet and (my favourite) Chidi. There's still been some great stuff in this last handful of eps, the trolley sequence springs to mind.

Tahani and Jason are so annoying.

The Jason reveal in season 1 was masterful, but since then he's been a nothing character. Tahani can be funny, but less so recently.

I was surprised the learn the actress is actually English, it sounds put on (I think she is considerably less posh irl).

man jason is awesome wtf

for some reason everyone loves the endless reboot episode the most but i think the strongest episodes of the show so far are the recent janet-focused ones

Every Tahani gag is like some lame celebrity namedrop gag: "I was on a diamond-studded jet ski with Puff Daddy and Prince Harry when ..."

Every Jason gag is about him being the stupidest person in history: "Oh, eggs, I love those things, they are so funny!" (sits on egg and cracks it and laughs gleefully) "But I still haven't made a chicken yet." (makes sad face, then confused face). "Maybe chickens don't come from eggs, maybe eggs come from chickens? (makes dopey face) Why are birds are so confusing?!"

jason is good

yes. jason is good.

imo the gag is the Tahani anecdotes are never funny or interesting, but she thinks they are because they always involve celebrities and class markers

and the point of her stories is always a super mundane thing that could have been said *without* the namedropping, which makes it funnier to me

Every Jason gag is about him being the stupidest person in history: "Oh, eggs, I love those things, they are so funny!" (sits on egg and cracks it and laughs gleefully) "But I still haven't made a chicken yet." (makes sad face, then confused face). "Maybe chickens don't come from eggs, maybe eggs come from chickens? (makes dopey face) Why are birds are so confusing?!"

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, January 5, 2018 8:03 AM (thirteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is so dramatically worse than any jason joke