The Good Place on NBC

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???

i guess beyonce isn't dead yet in that particular moment? (also opens up more questions about how time works in the afterlife that they haven't addressed yet)

So...first episode of the new season. It wasn't great.

idk i enjoyed it

It’s world building

it was good!

the “i crumb from a land down under” muffin stand was 👌🏻

still loling every time i think of the chipotle/aristotle joke

omg yes

I was worried this season would start with the gag being Eleanor driving Chidi crazy at college, or something. I love how she vibed with everything right from the start.

“I was practicing virtue ethics while helping the two of you bone down!"

Goodbye Bono.
Goodbye The Edge.
Goodbye The Edge's real number that Bono doesn't know about.

I'm glad everyone else enjoyed it! It just felt really flat to me for some reason. Some good gags, though; hopefully it's just the work of establishing the stage.

I loved how they answered all the fan questions about what language Chidi speaks, and about his accent. And I love Simone. Between this, Killing Eve, and Barry, Kirby Howell Baptiste is having some year. Fair play to her.

New season just starting yay.
Circulating through other means if you're not getting it terrestrially btw.
Assume it must be even over here though.

Play something terrible
*Right Here Waiting For You plays*

LOL

https://twitter.com/richardmarx/status/104546857636521165

shit, embed not working & i think i broke that twitter link, here is the screencap instead

https://i.imgur.com/QDkE4cL.jpg

“Royalties, B” -R. Marx

Mr Veg laughed extra hard at the Marx burn bcz I am a superfan - I pretended to pout for his benefit

That's maybe why I didn't like it - I'm a big Richard Marx stan.

gotta have a sense of humor abt these things

i appreciated the way eleanor pronounced gif

Thought his was pretty flat too, but some bright spots, and Jason's story was worth the wait

i hope Kirby Baptitste turns out to be be evil, as there is no other dramatically valid choice for that accent

it was better than ted danson's vague stab at an accent

i found that hilarious

Ted Danson's was supposed to be bad!

yeah that was a great fake accent

ted danson killed it all episode

he always kills it!

i love that mild panicked look he got when he realizes jason is about to loop back around and tell his story over again

Got to see this last night, may need to rewatch when I'm more awake.

Was wondering if this had been picked up Worldwide then heard it was on netflix. Is that the original source or is it on a non-cable?

It's made for NBC in the states. Not sure how it's distributed in various other places.

Guys, Zack Pizzazz

still loling every time i think of the chipotle/aristotle joke

Ok so I read that post before seeing the episode, and I assumed the joke was that she thought Aristotle was pronounced like Chipotle, ie "Ari-stowt-lay". I was laughing about that all week.

I loved how they answered all the fan questions about what language Chidi speaks, and about his accent

I have a large number of other questions about everybody else's accents now though

also wt enormous f at the giant flag in in his office

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/04/magazine/good-place-michael-schur-philosophy.html

Now I have to binge rewatch S1 & S2 focusing my attention Danson's hand gestures.

the vogue 73 questions parody was also v good

Humans are only alive for 80 years and they spend most of it waiting for things to end

mount rushmore in the american restaurant: david hasselhoff, paris hilton, judge judy, hulk hogan