Actually I think he was making a lame Russian hacking joke but you’re right that the outright anti-democracy moves going on in Wisconsin and North Carolina right now are the much more apt and timely comparison

Right but I think according to MIchael’s understanding of the system what Doug was dong should have worked. It was never firmly established how much Michael thought motivation should be a factor

Commenters have been talking about the point system being arbirtary or being too difficult and the Good Place being nearly impossible to get into since Season One. There are a couple folks who have been referenced (or seemingly referenced) as getting into the Good Place but it’s never been established definitively…

I respect what you’re saying but I’d argue that having completely cohesive, coherent view with consistent, deep world-building and a compelling ongoing narrative like The Good Place is more difficult and impressive than taking the same actors and characters and doing a different genre and tone each week like…

I don’t know if you’re joking but the Accountant was Stephen Merchant, long-time Ricky Gervais collaborator among other things. 

Janet kissing Janet was the hottest thing  I’ve ever seen except for Janet Kissing Eleanor and also except for Eleanor kissing Chidi

One of the reasons I watch Doctor Who is because it has structures and rhythms totally unlike American dramatic television. I like these overstuffed episodes that seem to be three episodes at once or whatever, though I also think this episode could’ve worked as the setup to a two parter

Just wanted to say I’m glad to see there are people who like me thought the “Tsurunga Conundrum” was a very good episode. Generally on these boards it’s used as shorthand for “bad episode this season”. I don’t agree that it was the season’s best though

And the backwards t-shirt!

Yeah what a shame we never got to see that monster whose head looks like a geoduck clam

I’m a day behind watching this but wow was that a wild ride. As the review says, finally an episode that felt like Doctor Who in all its goofy weirdness and lunatic ambition. I don’t even know if Doctor Who is a “good” show in conventional terms but I know there’s a certain mode the show goes into that’s unlike…

I thought “The Tsuranga Conundrum” was a decent episode, definitely in the top half of episodes this season but I can’t find anyone else who liked it.

I’ve always found Doctor Who to be pretty preachy. Don’t think it’s any moreso nowadays

I had an annoying contrarian reaction to this episode. I didn’t hate it or anything but I didn’t like it very much and would put a lot of this season’s episodes above it. I guess this is a suspension of disbelief sort of thing but for some reason it really annoys me when the Doctor and companions encounter a very…

When I hear someone lives near or even in X City I don’t assume they live in the central business district

Ha! Yeah I hadn’t thought about how Doug Forcett’s living an incredibly obsessive unusual life that keeps him isolated is very similar to Chuck McGill

Wow this is a really interesting parallel that I hadn’t though of. Thank you!

Again the issue was never Chidi’s indecisiveness per se. It was that his indecisiveness caused a huge amount of pain and problems for other people. Since the points seem to be based primarily on the effect of your actions on others, and not on intent, he gets a lot of negative points for more or less ruining the lives…

As has been pointed out before the point system is unfair and doesn’t make any sense

I like literally don’t though and am closer to the opposite agenda. I’ve never fired a gun, don’t own any guns and neither does anyone in my family nor the vast majority of my friends. (I have one close friend who has 3 small handguns because his wife works in a field where she gets death threats etc. and he’s…