The Good Place on NBC

http://www.splitscreensfestival.com/event/the-good-place-a-conversation-with-william-jackson-harper/

https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/the-good-place-ending-season-4-1203236561/

Schur is capping it at four. I trust his instincts.

I bet a hard season limit was among Lindelof's pieces of advice, lol

If it can pull a Justified (subpar penultimate season followed by return-to-form-and-then-some) then good. Lots of incidental pleasures last season but was generally disappointing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uolHo5M9eZs

Adverts for the new season accentuating that it's the last one have started cropping up on podcasts I listen to over the last few days.

Back next week, isn't it?

it is

Second year in a row a new season has been a birthday present to me.

stonehenge was a sex thing

Kept to the tradition of the new season dropping on my birthday.

Happy bday!

Good episode, tho they shoulda just shown both halves this week. I’m liking the fact this season looks like it’ll bring Maximum Derek

1-877-KARS-FOR-KIDS

K-A-R-S KARS FOR KIDS

what is kars for kids?

if possible, never find out

lol

*posts youtube link*
*stops self at last moment*

I outright cackled when the punching started

Series overview/behind the scenes/best of The Paley Centre Salutes the Good Place was quite fun.

Sorry to hear about end of the show, but it probably is good that they quit while they're ahead.

Is this the first episode that didn't include a topic from moral philosophy?

Why the hell did it say "to be continued" at the end? How was it different than any other episode (in terms of the level of cliffhanger)?

Idk, Simone was basically dealing with simulation theory, how to act of you don't believe the world is real?

Why the hell did it say "to be continued" at the end? How was it different than any other episode (in terms of the level of cliffhanger)?

Like the past two season openers, they made a 1-hour episode, but this time NBC cut it in half to debut the new Schur afterwards.

how to act if you don't believe the world is real?

this is a highly peculiar verbal construct. the fact that this question can be asked is no surety that it has any meaning at all, let alone any conceivable answer.

see also a whole lot of other philosophical questions

wait so would you believe... pizza is real?

Like the past two season openers, they made a 1-hour episode, but this time NBC cut it in half to debut the new Schur afterwards.

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Oh. Well it seemed to wrapped up close to the same as any other episode so they didn't really have to bother imo.

Like the past two season openers, they made a 1-hour episode, but this time NBC cut it in half to debut the new Schur afterwards.

that must be why it was so underwhelming

I don't know, I thought it was great. Rampaging Simone is great and the boring lady was amazing top to bottom.

yeah, full of excellent moments, it just felt underwhelming for a season premiere.

btw i have a full-blown crush on chris baker, which just goes onto the pile of crushes i have on the performers in this unfairly attractive show

like, if you are bi this show is properly unfair

I was very glad the boring lady turned out to be a demon, as I was already worried about that (good) joke wearing thin over any more episodes

I dunno; I’m not big on doing the reboot-cycle on Chidi for a third(or more) time

Not sure why, but I feel I’m going to be v disappointed in the series if this last season doesn’t have an emancipatory aspect to it. They’ve covered both moral development but also how an archaic & sclerotic moral system literally dooms everyone within it, and it feels like the final critical task to destroy the illegitimate system and liberate both themselves and humanity.

It seemed like they were giving hints about that at the end of the last season with the “No one is going to save you and fix things, Michael, you have to do it yourself” bits

Also how it is I’ve been watching this show for years and never twigged to the fact that Ted Danson’s character not shares both name and job as creator/architect as the show’s creator/showrunner?

Not sure why, but I feel I’m going to be v disappointed in the series if this last season doesn’t have an emancipatory aspect to it. They’ve covered both moral development but also how an archaic & sclerotic moral system literally dooms everyone within it, and it feels like the final critical task to destroy the illegitimate system and liberate both themselves and humanity.

This sounds right.

I made my cousin watch the first couple of episodes (s1) - did Chidi have his teeth fixed at some point? They look different!

I enjoyed this episode - even if the shapelessness of this season is a mess.

Yeah it feels like they knew how they wanted to wrap it up and could have done it in a couple of eps, but are having to stretch it out because they were commissioned by season.

They requested one episode more than previous seasons

Odd then that it feels like it's treading water.

I feel like all the seasons have been shapeless since about halfway through the second season.

This year feels a lot *funnier* than last year though so I'm happy

Yeah I feel like the "let's roam around before the reveal of what this season is actually about" period is longer than usual.

it’s still v funny but dramatically it’s gotten a little saccharine and a lot repetitive. how many more crises of confidence scenes can i take

also you couldn’t pay me to be interested in eleanor and chidi’s relationship

however i'm still enjoying myself so whatever

It seems like the funniest lines this season are almost all Jason and to some extent Derek, I feel they're kind of wasting actual funniest cast member Janet

treading water otm

im not gonna complain. ted danson is an absolute gift. 72 and crushing every line.

love ted danson as vicky