The Good Place
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iannis
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This show is weird.
I started watching it and despised it. I thought it was condescending garbage. But kept watching it because for some reason I really do like Ted Danson (I liked Becker, fuck you the rest of the world) and... Kristen Bell is stupid hot. So I just put aside the disgust and cherry picked out the good bits. And I started to like the Janet character well enough.
Then we hit the end of season 1 and I was repudiated. All that simmering disgust was intentional. They tricked me. I absolutely did not expect that sort of writing in network television.
This show made me laugh at myself. That is a very hard thing to accomplish. It's easy to make charicitures and get us to laugh at other people, or aspects of society... but to get you to laugh at yourself...
Surprisingly good.
I started watching it and despised it. I thought it was condescending garbage. But kept watching it because for some reason I really do like Ted Danson (I liked Becker, fuck you the rest of the world) and... Kristen Bell is stupid hot. So I just put aside the disgust and cherry picked out the good bits. And I started to like the Janet character well enough.
Then we hit the end of season 1 and I was repudiated. All that simmering disgust was intentional. They tricked me. I absolutely did not expect that sort of writing in network television.
This show made me laugh at myself. That is a very hard thing to accomplish. It's easy to make charicitures and get us to laugh at other people, or aspects of society... but to get you to laugh at yourself...
Surprisingly good.
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Cybsled
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I think the show direction will be trying to figure out what Shawn meant by everyone going to the Bad Place. It will probably end up being like South Park the movie where heaven has barely anyone in it and hell has the rest, because of stupidly high standards or because the bad place basically has rigged the whole system to benefit itself. It was somewhat telling that all the demons + Bad Janet showed up so soon after Shawn got kicked through the Judge's door.
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Jorren
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iannis
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Read stranger in a strange land. Grok is a hippy concept. It's a real shame it's fallen out of use. It's a great word for the concept. And surprisingly English doesn't have a single word for the concept. It takes a short paragraph at the least to encapsulate "grok" .
I guess it's close enough to understand that it never took root. It is a specific variant of active understanding.
Grok, great word.
Different author, but I also don't hear "kipple" near often enough. Kipple is a modern affliction.
I guess it's close enough to understand that it never took root. It is a specific variant of active understanding.
Grok, great word.
Different author, but I also don't hear "kipple" near often enough. Kipple is a modern affliction.
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