The Good Place on NBC

D’Arcy Carden showed up on this week's Lovett or Leave It podcast. She does some acting.

Blake Bortles signed a 3 year extension fwiw

ngl, i was cheering for the jags to make/win the super bowl entirely due to wanting to see how jason would react on this show in season 3

K Bell <3 <3 <3 <3 <3
so happy that she has been owning TV for years

and T Danson KILLS IT on this show, i literally had no idea he was so funny (my bad.)

If that means you've never watched Cheers, we're finding that the early episodes hold up p well.

i was watching an old Cheers and i was amazed at the amount of dialogue. the best episodes are good little plays.

Shelley Long deserved a better post-Cheers career.

Agreed with all of this Cheers talk. The first 2-3 seasons are more theater than sitcom.

I wish Cheers was on netflix! A funny thing that we do since we are now old and tired, is when I don't want to go to bed early I will say "But Cheers* isn't even on yet!" or "But Empty Nest* isn't over yet!"
*insert whatever random show that came on during that timeslot.

cheers is totally on american netflix.

Gah, I just searched on mine and it isn't. So annoying.

cheers is fantastic

i know british people love it but frasier kinda curdles my blood. i tried really hard to like it when it was first on but i ended up hating being stuck in a room with them. they really wanted to be drawing room brilliant but it turned insufferable to me. that dad in the chair more of a demon than any eugene o'neill character. and his little dog too. felt so bad for any woman on that show.

I've seen every episode of Cheers. I never could make it through any episode of Frasier. I never understood how that character was the spin off.

I had no idea we liked Fraiser more than the yanks. I'm lukewarm on it myself.

that dad in the chair more of a demon than any eugene o'nell character. and his little dog too

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frasier makes the bbc top ten:

http://www.bbcamerica.com/anglophenia/2013/03/10-american-tv-shows-that-were-huge-in-britain

perhaps frasier has endured in the uk and colonies because class interplay has historically been a cornerstone of british light entertainment. the us rarely produces anything along class lines that resonates this well.

and i'm not talking the diff'rent strokes/fresh prince/silver spoons "those ones are rich and those ones are poor", i'm talking the specific tension derived from aspirationals breaking away from their working class roots and trying to wodge themselves into the real upper classes (hyacinth, basil fawlty)

yeah, i mean it could almost be a bbc show really.

otm

The stuff about class in Cheers seems p real to me now that I live in the approximate Greater Boston Area. I don't know what stratum of Pacific Northwest society Frasier and Niles would even be aspiring to; if anything, the joke seems to be that they don't know themselves?

yeah, iirc in cheers frasier started as a proper posh snob and sort of became the british-aspirational type post-diane, by the time he got his own show his working class roots had become the whole point

and T Danson KILLS IT on this show, i literally had no idea he was so funny (my bad.

He was great in Bored to Death too

He shows up in season 2 of Fargo! Which I am currently watching.

by all accounts he’s a really nice guy too, which must factor into the amount of work he’s been getting

He's very much channeling Matt Smith in Doctor Who, which is a good thing in my book

He was excellent on HBO’s Bored to Death. He’s been consistently working since ... forever? He and Steenburgen just seem like great, super professional across.

was great in Damages too, plus he was a regular on Curb for a while, right?

Bored to Death sucked but he was good in it

he's still on Curb

larry ribs him for working so much and so late in his career on the latest season :)

No. Fuck off. No. You terrible and toxic influence on young girls. I admire their mother’s branding capabilities, she is an exploitative but innovative genius, however this family makes me feel actual despair over what women are reduced to. ☹️ pic.twitter.com/zDPN1T8sBM

— Jameela Jamil (@jameelajamil) May 16, 2018

stunning skinny model decries lookism!

j/k

i think she's also decrying snake oil selling....

Emmy nominations for Ted Danson and Maya Rudolph

Apparently D'arcy Carden spells her name that way because she was a Smashing Pumpkins fan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EF1RB2IPfTo (Which makes me love her more, though ymmv)

More importantly, for Megan Amram

Kinda got a crush on D'Arcy Carden

I really wish Netflix or Hulu would put out the full 2nd season so I could get caught up.

it's available on DVD in the US via Netflix

But that means I have to send back my other DVD!

Slightly sad that the American market for physical media is still ~45% 480p DVD, a dozen years after the introduction of backwards compatible 1080p blu-ray players. As an American with only a 120" screen, I own the UK S1 blu-ray, and am also sad that S2 won't be released until Feb 11, 2019.

As an American with only a 120" screen

this is the new nabisco having to rent a car without a CD player that one time

lol

Nope. A refurbed projector was cheaper than a panel TV. Its pretty ideal for me, as I don't "watch TV", I put on films for (sometimes) a couple hours a day.

However, this does make my DVD collection mostly accumulated a decade ago look pants. What you don't notice at 42" (resolution, compression artifacts) is pretty damn evident at 120".

NBC was pretty shrewd with restricting access to the good place season 2 via streaming.. I was only able to watch earlier eps (more recent ones were on hulu) via the nbc app, which required a cable subscription

S2 gag reel came out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3eFAqemAkQ

Given my interests, how did I not know that Tahani is dating James Blake irl? Learned it from an Azealia Banks tweet, lol.

through episode 6 of this, getting huge laughs from me

he says almost every artist is in the bad place but he also says Beyoncé is 104% perfect???