The Good Place on NBC

If you could push a button and simply cease to exist, would you press it?

This was great when it remembered it could be sad *and* funny at the same time (Chidi’s calendar!) but I still kind of preferred the earlier, funnier, smarter ones

A treat to get 4 seasons of Ted Danson doing this, though (even if evil Ted was better). WJH seemed v poorly served by this season, mind

What’s Ted danson doing next?

Still bummed by the oh so short run of Bored to death. George is probably my favourite character he’s played.

Love that show

What’s Ted danson doing next?

Tina Fey & Robert Carlock sold a direct-to-series project to NBC about Jack Donaghy running for mayor of NYC. Alec Baldwin spent a year on his usual hardball negotiating in the style that got 30 Rock cancelled mid-season, and now the series will star Danson as a businessman running for mayor of LA.

Agree that Bored To Death is apex Danson.

The republican convention moving to Jacksonville made me want to bump this thread

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Just started watching this show, incredibly relieved when at the end of episode 3 that the Buddhist monk actually got to speak. Was totally afraid that character would just be a running joke.

it gets even better!

that character becomes, shall we say, somewhat integral to the story

honestly one of the all-time great performances

K i'm just starting the third season and am just completely amazed by this show
that it exists at all (I imagine pitched as Lost: The Sitcom!) and on was on network television, that it gets rebooted effectively every year, and that it's so awesome and the cast is so so good

it's a very good show!
without being a killjoy, allow me to forewarn that i don't think it sticks the landing and gets mired down in its own sentimentality too much for its own good. that said, i watched it weekly and didn't binge so i'm curious what your take is.

Loved this show massively!

I can easily understand how you felt though - if i had to watch this show week to week ala... well, Lost, it could've driven me crazy, especially the last two seasons having the Batman '66-esque cliffhangers for several episodes in a row to end them all. The last season I really kept wondering how the show wasn't ending from like, episode 8 of 13 onward. But it's perfect as a binging show and provided some desperately needed positive vibes for me in this time. (Next up: Ted Lasso.)

Yes the show gets REALLY sentimental, but I was totally okay with it honestly. I wholeheartedly bought into the show's concept - as lampshaded clearly in one of the final episodes - that for all this thought about philosophy and what good and bad people deserve in the afterlife, without that emotional underpinning it would've rung much more hollow. (And just as importantly, as a sitcom, it hit on a pretty much every level - the characters, cast, absurdism, etc. all worked and the show didn't go on past its welcome.) Ultimately, I bought in.

Still feeling a little wistful sadness from the finale, but ultimately very happy to go through all those Jeremy Berimys. Gonna skim through this thread to see how people felt in real time...

JORTLES

all seems fair on that assessment

Former Jacksonville Jaguars QB Blake Bortles says he 'quietly' retired

should've announced it by throwing a molotov cocktail at a boat