God damn.
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Some of the best lines in the entire show
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The Good Place S2 |OT| Well, We Forking Here Now - Thursdays 8:30/7:30c
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Some of the best lines in the entire show
Marc Evan Jackson is a national treasure and I will hear no arguments otherwise.
The molotov cocktail gag killed me.
Was that Nick Offerman voicing the CGI monster that Michael asked about weight-loss? It sounded like him, but I didn't see him in the credits.
Was that Nick Offerman voicing the CGI monster that Michael asked about weight-loss? It sounded like him, but I didn't see him in the credits.
Just watched this weeks episode. We just recently started watching and kinda binged to catch up. How is this show so consistently great?
I know you're being rhetorical, but I think it's down to having consistently fresh material because of the premise. Extremely diverse cast, unusual focus (how many philosophy jokes do you get in the average sitcom?). Great actors and clever writing bring it the rest of the way.
I read an interview with one of the show heads (Michael Schur, I think) talking about how they want to surprise the viewers and not just rest on their laurels. And in my experience with the show, it translates into them trying to stay one step ahead of the audience.
When I started watching the show, I was expecting the entire first season to be Eleanor barely getting out of one jam after another, before finally admitting she's in the wrong place as part of a cliffhanger. They did that in the middle of the first season. A different show might have spent an entire season on how they work with Michael to avoid getting tortured - not this show, they did that after like three episodes.
A different way of putting it is that it feels like they get this crazy premise, make the best one or two episodes they can, and then move on instead of milking it to death. We're getting the best content they've got per unit of time, and it makes the show something really special as a result.
When I started watching the show, I was expecting the entire first season to be Eleanor barely getting out of one jam after another, before finally admitting she's in the wrong place as part of a cliffhanger. They did that in the middle of the first season. A different show might have spent an entire season on how they work with Michael to avoid getting tortured - not this show, they did that after like three episodes.
A different way of putting it is that it feels like they get this crazy premise, make the best one or two episodes they can, and then move on instead of milking it to death. We're getting the best content they've got per unit of time, and it makes the show something really special as a result.
He's not a human.
Janet (who was somehow nowhere to be found when they left and still in the Bad Place) is obviously going to save him.
Damnit Micheal, that's a fine solution to the 4 people 3 pins and a portal problem, but it's not a solution to the trolley problem. Still, it was a really sweet scene and some of the lines this episode were killer.
God damn.
I regret that I don't have the skill to make good gifs and have to rely on Imgur.
Man. Not the point of these, but now I really want to see what Bad Janet spends all her time texting. Is it just a network of Bad Janets calling each other fat dinks? Is she on evil Twitter? Evil Instagram?
She's a Russian social media bot posting fake news about Hillary Clinton. And she's a moderator on /r/the_donald.
Exactly! The problem they were actually dealing with was the overloaded boat problem, and the proper solution here would have been to have four of them go through and then either throw one of the pins back through or, if a pin needed a person to get through, have one person take two pins back through. Then everyone could have been saved. Except Janet, who would still have been left behind. But now she gets to save Michael.
I think by now they should be like 500 years into the future. Although maybe Janet is not bound by time.
I don't think the afterlife is bound by time honestly but that's just me
I love how perfectly douchey everyone and everything in the Bad Place is. I know it's an old joke, but I always loved one of the test questions Michael asks in season one: "Did you ever own a vanity license plate?" I just love these little digs!
Aren't you predicating this on the assumption that the portal runs both ways? Or that, assuming a person needs a pin to travel (possibly even exist in the neutral space?) that they could find one in the extremely limited time Micheal had before getting captured?
Yeah, I'll admit that it depends on the portal running both ways (which would have been a worthwhile question to ask). But they already had portal-passage pins. It's conceivable that pins might be necessary to exist there (another worthwhile question to ask), but I consider it unlikely. I doubt the Judge or the Accounting department staff would want to need to wear a pin all the time or risk non-existence.
I really enjoy every time the show takes a second to turn into Here's Another Thing That Annoys Michael Schur because it's always a slam dunk.
The most recent episode has done nothing to change my opinion that this show is just an excuse for Schur to insult food he doesn't like.
Yup. I had to admit I giggled almost every time I saw their QB. Jason's "Bortles!" kept playing in my head.
i was rooting for them because if nothing else getting to the superbowl would mean some great jokes next season
I haven't watched a second of football this season but I tuned in at the last 2 minutes hoping Bortles! would win it.
New episode tonight:
There's also a promo for tonight's episode here. Please spoiler tag any discussion.
There's also a promo for tonight's episode here. Please spoiler tag any discussion.
I haven't been able to tune in since the return from the break but managed to marathon everything I missed just in time for tonight's episode. Woo!
Rudolph was a fun guest star. Janet suddenly being able to play bad feels like a slight cheat but I'll take it. Loved that Eleanor was the only one who substantially improved, and I thought Tahani deserved a little more leniency. She broke by going in the room, sure, but her response to her "parents" showed a lot of growth.
Not an all-timer like last week but good setup for what should be a world-upending finale.
Not an all-timer like last week but good setup for what should be a world-upending finale.
I just watched the pilot and thought it was really bad for the fact it wasn't funny. I figured it got canceled based on how much I found the first episode to be so bland. I'm going to give it another shot. I think there's potential with Kristin bell. She reminds me of Christina Apple gate.
How did I not realize we're hitting the end of the season already? Going to be a long wait until season 3.
I think Chidi failing his test is bullshit, in fact he shouldn't be in the bad place at all.
The threshold for who a good person is supposed to be seems a lot higher for him compared to the rest of them.
The others did genuinely "bad" things, while he was just extremely neurotic without malice.
I think this is a nod to the whole "You work twice as hard just be successful" adage.
The threshold for who a good person is supposed to be seems a lot higher for him compared to the rest of them.
The others did genuinely "bad" things, while he was just extremely neurotic without malice.
I think this is a nod to the whole "You work twice as hard just be successful" adage.
I dunno—they did a great job of showing how his indecisiveness caused those around him pain in life. And how his neuroses meant he didn't really contribute anything of value to the world. He thought about ethics a lot, but he didn't add to the canon or go out and practice them. He just thought.
1. Please stick with it until at least episode 4. I personally thought that episode 2 was the low point of the series. Episode 3 is better, and things are in high-gear by episode 4.
2. You'll probably want to stay out of this thread until you get caught up. Even though it's a comedy, spoilers SERIOUSLY MATTER for this show.
None of which was intentional. Everyone else chose to do bad things, whereas he didn't choose to do much of anything.
I didn't say he deserves to be in the good place, I said he doesn't deserve to be in the bad place. If anyone deserves a medium place it's him.
^^^The threshold for anybody to get into the Good Place is extremely high, I don't think Tahani really did much bad either besides being really self-obsessed. I doubt hardly anybody is actually in the Good Place based on the rules of the show.
Maya Rudolph was fun as the judge.
It's going to be interesting how the season will end next week. Will be a major shift in the show no matter what happens.
Maya Rudolph was fun as the judge.
It's going to be interesting how the season will end next week. Will be a major shift in the show no matter what happens.
Tahani raised 60 billion dollars for charity. She didn't choose to do bad things - she actively made the world a better place for others. She just did it for the wrong reasons, which in this setting is enough to send you to the Bad Place. If doing good things for the wrong reasons isn't enough to earn a spot in the Medium Place, hurting everyone around you because you're so focused on doing the right thing certainly shouldn't.
Consider this: Would Chidi even have reacted well to being sent to the Medium Place? In the previous episode Chidi mentioned that he's pretty good at turning everywhere he goes into his own personal hell.
I have a theory that getting into the Good Place isn't actually about moral standing or accomplishment, but about whether or not you could avoid making yourself and those around you miserable. Eleanor, Jason, and Chidi's tests were all about overcoming behaviors of theirs that had caused others misery while they were alive. Tahani, on the other hand, didn't make others miserable. She made herself miserable, and her test was about overcoming that (I would agree with andrew that Tahani should have gotten credit for how she responded to her parents). If they can stop hurting themselves and those around them, then they would be qualified for the real Good Place. Until then, they would just make anywhere they went into a Bad Place.