i love my favorite show
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Friday, 7 December 2018 17:17 (five years ago) link
This was a great episode. A brilliant performance from D'Arcy Carden. It really connected in the way that the best of the episodes did.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Friday, 7 December 2018 22:59 (five years ago) link
Yeah, that was some kind of high spot.
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Saturday, 8 December 2018 17:02 (five years ago) link
Such a genius episode, and you could tell Carden was really having fun with the Jason impression.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 8 December 2018 17:34 (five years ago) link
So if they're finally in the real Good Place is it all going to be based on perceptions of idyllic society from 500 years ago? Hope so!
― nashwan, Saturday, 8 December 2018 17:59 (five years ago) link
Loved it esp the accounting dept
― kinder, Saturday, 8 December 2018 22:18 (five years ago) link
I was kind of surprised how much taller Stephen Merchant is than Ted Danson.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Saturday, 8 December 2018 22:22 (five years ago) link
I noticed that too!
― Locked in silent monologue, in silent scream (Sund4r), Saturday, 8 December 2018 22:25 (five years ago) link
yeah samehe is ridiculously tall
― kinder, Saturday, 8 December 2018 22:29 (five years ago) link
(I would suggest that by the established rules so far it isn't odd that Doug isn't getting into heaven - all of his actions are directed at that end)
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Saturday, 8 December 2018 23:19 (five years ago) link
This episode contradicts some of even that though, because it says once a value's set it's automatically applied and some of the activities pre-dates a concept of a good or bad place (I would guess, since we'll never know whether God and the Afterlife were our first sentient thoughts.)
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Saturday, 8 December 2018 23:25 (five years ago) link
in 1497 (521 years ago) this guy died:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Manetti“He is particularly noted for his investigations into the site, shape and size of Dante's Inferno. Although Manetti never himself published his research regarding the topic, the earliest Renaissance Florentine editors of the poem, Cristoforo Landino and Girolamo Benivieni, reported the results of his researches in their respective editions of the Divine Comedy.”
― maura, Sunday, 9 December 2018 16:49 (five years ago) link
didn't they previously say abraham lincoln was in the good place?
― adam the (abanana), Sunday, 9 December 2018 23:21 (five years ago) link
Yeah, but those were demons pretending to be Good place folks, right? So they just lied.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Sunday, 9 December 2018 23:56 (five years ago) link
yeah, that's what i was figuring as well
― maura, Monday, 10 December 2018 00:35 (five years ago) link
https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--1mcsGL6_--/c_scale,f_auto,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/t1vm2sekvydzpayiavuz.png
― Plinka Trinka Banga Tink (Eliza D.), Monday, 10 December 2018 15:13 (five years ago) link
it's always been close, but i feel like chidi has become Too Perfect
― mookieproof, Friday, 11 January 2019 13:52 (five years ago) link
just wait til he has to pick a hat to wear
― affadavido (voodoo chili), Friday, 11 January 2019 15:09 (five years ago) link
rule changes kinda got to me last episode ("the system is rigged by the bad place" -> "the system didn't adjust with the increasing complexity of human life" kinda lame and obvious but fine) but last night's episode was excellent, hopefully they settle down a little on the super expository plot shifts
derek
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Friday, 18 January 2019 15:32 (five years ago) link
lol'd at the "time knife" bit
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 18 January 2019 15:34 (five years ago) link
haven't watched this week's ep yet, but god this show is *so close* to inadvertently backing a full-throated critique of global capitalism lol
― resident hack (Simon H.), Friday, 18 January 2019 15:34 (five years ago) link
I think it’s advertently
― harvey wall/barrier (voodoo chili), Friday, 18 January 2019 15:46 (five years ago) link
enh Schur seems like a standard-issue liberal from what I've seen but I'd be happy to be wrong
― resident hack (Simon H.), Friday, 18 January 2019 15:47 (five years ago) link
but he's explicitly making the argument that globalism implicates even well meaning consumers into such a web of exploitation and avarice that even nice acts are net negatives to humanity. how could that be inadvertent?
― Mordy, Friday, 18 January 2019 16:10 (five years ago) link
well ppl often fail to realize the implications of powerful arguments when they start thinking that they sound like a cool way to dunk on ppl
― j., Friday, 18 January 2019 16:13 (five years ago) link
inadvertent only in the sense that the show diagnoses this as simply "modern life" and not the product of a specific set of historical processes at work. which makes sense because it's a sitcom and not an undergraduate lecture series
― resident hack (Simon H.), Friday, 18 January 2019 16:15 (five years ago) link
likely linked upthread but all mentioned points are fairly intentional if perhaps not completely thought throughhttps://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/04/magazine/good-place-michael-schur-philosophy.html
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 18 January 2019 16:18 (five years ago) link
torturing Shakespeare, lol
― kinder, Friday, 18 January 2019 20:08 (five years ago) link
yeah that was my favorite throwaway gag, besides maybe Eleanor high-fiving Jason after his iHop burn
Also, can't stop laughing at Interdimensional Hole of Pancakes, especially since the "of pancakes" part was completely unexplained
― harvey wall/barrier (voodoo chili), Friday, 18 January 2019 21:26 (five years ago) link
i laughed for two solid minutes at how harboring a non-fried vegetable is a felony in jacksonville
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Friday, 18 January 2019 21:27 (five years ago) link
counterpoint, humans are garbage. limp bizkit, slavery.
― harvey wall/barrier (voodoo chili), Friday, 18 January 2019 21:33 (five years ago) link
Oh man, Michael flossing
― groovypanda, Saturday, 19 January 2019 11:49 (five years ago) link
Chidi’s voice when he yelps about having seen the time knife
― mh, Saturday, 19 January 2019 15:18 (five years ago) link
Every Derek/martini moment killed. Jason Mantzoukas is consistently hilarious in every show he's on. He should be on more shows.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 19 January 2019 16:22 (five years ago) link
^^ love that guy
― DJI, Saturday, 19 January 2019 17:43 (five years ago) link
He's even great playing the straight man in The Dictator
― Chuck_Tatum, Saturday, 19 January 2019 18:15 (five years ago) link
he is a great guest judge on nailed it
― adam the (abanana), Saturday, 19 January 2019 18:27 (five years ago) link
if u like zouks search every comedy bang bang ep he's been on; consistently hilarious dude
― Mordy, Saturday, 19 January 2019 18:35 (five years ago) link
the chris gethard episode with mantzoukas and paul scheer is still the funniest thing i’ve ever seen
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Saturday, 19 January 2019 19:36 (five years ago) link
See also, the How Did This Get Made? podcast.
― Sanpaku, Sunday, 20 January 2019 15:44 (five years ago) link
One of the things I love about the show so much is how it's becoming this complete epic journey. I started rewatching Lost last week (haven't seen it since it came out) and I am getting apprehensive about where I will give it up, knowing already the ending and how it completely fizzles out in storytelling. I hope this doesn't happen to The Good Place , but since they are already dead...
― Yerac, Sunday, 20 January 2019 16:17 (five years ago) link
The ways they've chosen to completely reframe/reboot the plot over and over again somehow always works. Presumably introducing 4 completely new characters to recreate S1 is bold as hell.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 20 January 2019 16:53 (five years ago) link
They did such a great job casting as well.
― Yerac, Sunday, 20 January 2019 16:55 (five years ago) link
Alison Jones also cast Freaks & Geeks, The Office: An American Workplace, The 40 Year Old Virgin, Superbad, Knocked Up, I Love You Man, Bridesmaids, Parks & Rec, Veep, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Arrested Development, Lady Bird and Eighth Grade.
― sans lep (sic), Sunday, 20 January 2019 17:22 (five years ago) link
Well I'm fucked up now
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 25 January 2019 03:25 (five years ago) link
that was terribly sweet
― resident hack (Simon H.), Friday, 25 January 2019 04:49 (five years ago) link
what a lovely finale
― Jeff Bathos (symsymsym), Friday, 25 January 2019 08:32 (five years ago) link
that destroyed me
― calamity gammon (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 25 January 2019 11:32 (five years ago) link
Great show, good finale but I'm not looking forward to every nerd wedding speech from now till eternity including the phrase "Jeremy Bearimy, baby"
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 25 January 2019 20:04 (five years ago) link
Teared up at the end there. Didn't realise it was the finale.
― groovypanda, Saturday, 26 January 2019 12:10 (five years ago) link