The Good Place on NBC

Everyone on this show is so, so good.

trouble ahead
trouble behind
donkey doug you better
watch your speed

Eleanor’s expression when she finds out her mom is still alive a++

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/oct/28/the-good-places-australian-accents-are-bad-but-maybe-thats-the-joke

That’s the joke with Ted Danson and his character’s unconsciously terrible attempt at an Australian accent. Except that it’s a joke which would be funnier if it didn’t sound to Australian ears kind of like Simone.

Your mother is a very confident and selfish lover

That was a sweet episode.

trouble ahead
trouble behind
donkey doug you better
watch your speed

― mookieproof, Friday, October 26, 2018 5:22 PM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

a+ post

a few excellent jokes about nevada in this episode

what a fun way to say a normal thing!

what wankers

"Always bet on read!"

is there a joke i'm missing in that eleanor's mom and jason's dad appear to be the same age as their children?

I wondered that too. Not the case with Tahani's parents.

just that they both seem to be the type of people to have kids really young?

Donkey Doug looks at least 20 years older than Jason

My spouse has taken to calling me Donkey Doug. Which I kind of weirdly understand.

fwiw I went to high school with and am facebook friends with the guy who plays Donkey Doug so I can confirm that he is only 3 years older than Manny Jacinto.

lol

the actress who plays eleanor's mom is nine years older than kristen bell

I wouldn't be surprised if Eugene Cordero (who plays Pillboi) is older than Donkey Doug

The actress who plays Eleanor's mom first played the role in the flashbacks to Eleanor's childhood. So that's why she's so young. I think.

she talks about it in an interview (it’s the woman who played mary cherry on POPULAR)

You play Kristen Bell’s mother on The Good Place, and you return for Thursday’s episode. How did that role first come about, and did you discuss the age difference?
I (first) got a call from my agent, “You got an offer to play Kristen Bell’s mother.” I was like, “Well, here it is. Here’s that phone call where you are officially an older actress.” Then she said, “No, no, wait. It’s to play the mother of her character in flashback.” Initially, it started off as playing the mother of a little girl. I thought, “Okay, that makes more sense,” because Kristen Bell and I are not that far apart in age. Look, don’t get it twisted. I know I’m older than her, but I’m not old enough to be her mother.

Then when they said, “We’d like you to come back and work with Kristen,” there was a conversation, “Well, how is that going to work?” Like, “What are you going to look like?” They were like, “We don’t want to do aging makeup on you. That’s not something we want to do.” They came up with a brilliant idea to just Real Housewives her and to make her look really pulled and surgeried. We put in extensions. We gave me a really insane tan. Pulled my face up with tape. Wore really crazy makeup, really intense, Real Housewives-ish makeup.

https://www.vulture.com/2018/11/leslie-grossman-ahs-apocalypse-the-good-place.html

makes sense! but i was not expecting real housewives to become a verb

another terrible thing about our cursed age

they didn't really appear to do that to her though. she looked exactly the same as she does on American Horror Story.

KUNG FU JANET

The homage to LOST at the beginning was fantastic.

(the whole episode was fantastic, actually)

Honestly never expected one of the best shows on TV would feature Ted Danson channeling Matt Smith, but here we are.

Via the podcast today, I learned the fight sequence was coordinated by the same guy who did all the work for the Bourne films (including the building jumping one in Morocco).

Lost feat Chuck McGill... loved it

i had been wondering why chidi never questioned the utilitarian good place calculation. glad they plan to address it.

Yeah, same. I really didn't think the show could get this good again.

what's weird is that I could tell it was Michael Mckean before they showed his face!

martin luther gandhi tyler moore

xp me too! Guess I've been watching a lot of BCS.

abanana otm xp

what's weird is that I could tell it was Michael Mckean before they showed his face!

― akm, Saturday, 17 November 2018 6:55 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I was expecting John Lithgow

Is there no episode this week?

they're on midseason break :/

it's back next week

oh nice! I assumed it was off till '19

Oh, that's okay, I guess. Was looking forward to my episode today...

after next week it's off again until January, then the last three episodes run b2b with new Brooklyn Nine-Nine and The Office repeats, presumably from the Schur era

That's.... usually not a good sign for a show, no? Burning off episodes like that? I know it hasn't been renewed for S4 yet, but that doesn't make me feel good about the future.

best thing that could happen to this show would be to go out on top. would be great if they wrapped after another season... or this one.

Burning would’ve been if they ran them off now and held the show until fall next year

On WTF Kristen was talking about Schur has had the whole storyline mapped out in his head from day 1. I thought she said it was a 5 season plan, but maybe I'm conflating it with something else.

That's.... usually not a good sign for a show, no? Burning off episodes like that?

Sitting on a mere three remaining episodes so that you can program a night around three shows by the same bloke, one of which you've just rescued from the network that cancelled it, does not indicate a lack of faith in that bloke, imo.

(One does wonder what the plan is after the third week, though.)

Oh wait! I misread that as all three episodes b2b on the same night. That's what I intended with the burning 'em off comment. Never mind.