The Good Place - new fantasy sitcom

Never thought that but it started very good but now has turned boring for me.

 

The first season was ok at best but season 2 has been all over the place. Funny at times to extremely painful to watch. I felt the same way about Last Man on Earth & finally gave up on that one.

 

Show's back with a great new episode. Very clever use of coded dialog that kept one guessing. The roast was a blast!

 

Here's hoping Mindy is more successful at having sex with Derek than Jason was with Janet. I mean, on the one hand, Jason tried for hours and couldn't get anywhere but, on the other hand, Mindy has two duffel bags full of cocaine, and how can that not help?

 

Very much enjoying the new season. Some pretty clever lines in last night's, and loved the payoff of the Molotov Cocktail joke. Even my wife, who couldn't get into the first season, has found it more accessible.

John K.

 

For me the best part of the ep was at the end where Michael professes to have solved the philosophical Trolley Problem and then demonstrates the solution. A very nice scene.

Jason looked pretty cool in his Rat Pack outfit , Eleanor looked fabulous in the 1940s hairdo and glasses, and Tahani, well, she looks fabulous in anything!

 

This show is a lot of fun - had a bit of a slow start for me, but picked up right at the season one plot twist.

 

I watch this show but I find it's generally more "interesting" than "humorous." I'm growing weary of the back & forth with the good place/bad place/ and Michael alternating between good guy/bad guy.

 

Well, the "Good Place" has now been destroyed, so that's no longer as issue. Michael spent the first season as the bad guy pretending to be the good guy and most of the second season being the opposite. Now the cat's out of the bag (so to speak) he's presumably being sincere. But Thursday's the season finale, and any and/or all of that might be upended. Let's find out!

 

Tonight's episode was the finale for Season 2. The show is still fresh and engaging.

 

The running gag with those two insufferable songs being played repeatedly in hell really cracked me up.

I haven't dedicatedly followed the show, but I like what I've seen. My wife had to fill me in on a few plot points on the season finale. Smart show, so smart I can't believe it's on a traditional network.

dan c

 

This is a fun and relatively unique show for network tv.

 

A plethora of good points to The Good Place people, on both sides of the camera, for something so completely different, regardless of what fork in the road it takes.

 

Very nice season ender. Eat my farts Benedict Cumberbatch!

 

Great 2nd series. Easily on par with the first. An ending which made me smile, but I’m not sure a third series is needed. Time to put it to bed I think.

 

No way! They've just set things up for another potential narrative upheaval. The scene where Michael tells the Judge that the point system is "fundamentally flawed and unreasonable" is a profound insight which means that we're likely to see some kind of shakeup coming next season.

Also, forgot to mention how much I loved seeing Ted Danson behind the bar again (Schur is a big fan of Cheers)!

 

Season 2 out on DVD (again; no BluRay ) July 17. It doesn't appear to include any bonus features this time around and, again, it's only Ted & Kristen on the cover.

 

Anyone catch the extended season 3 opener? So good to have the show back and it looks like the hinted at shakeup has come to pass. This show keeps reinventing itself, which keeps it fresh and interesting. I recall back in S1 people lamenting that the premise won't have any staying power long term, but the producers were clever enough to overcome that potential pitfall.

The opener was cleverly constructed and very funny, all while keeping true to what we know about each of the main characters. Big thumbs up from me.

 

I finally watched the second half of the second season on Netflix, and I was so very pleased to see my proposed solution to the trolley problem come up, and from Michael no less!

Can't wait to watch S3 E1!

 

Just watched the premiere of Season 3. What the fork? It has cleverly shifted, but stayed the same. Good vs Evil.

 

Watched Season 3 Ep1 - great to have the characters back in 'new' (which are old! ) situations!! It's not often we get a series that pokes fun at the consequences of people's actions and relates it to 'the good place' and 'the bad place'!!!

 

I watched S3 E1 tonight ... great to have The Good Place back, terrible Aussie accents notwithstanding

Michael's accent was supposed to be terrible, and Simone (who I assume is a British actor) had a weird combination of Aussie/Kiwi/Cockney accent.

--Geoff

 

Yeah, a total mishmash. I was just rewatching some Frasier episodes and had to chuckle how all of Daphne's Brit brothers had Aussie accents with weird Cockney-esque overtones - cor blimey guv'nor!

 

I was not expecting "Right Here Waiting" by Richard Marx to be the song to inspire demons to work more efficiently.