Eleanor is too short for Tahani.

Agreed on the Eleanor/Chidi thing as I almost wanted to stop watching when the declaration of love happened. The Good Place is such an innovative and brilliant show that continues to lambast expectations, so the fact that they went with the most boring, cliche plot device with those two just felt so underwhelming. And…

There’s nothing that screams TV reviewer more than “this show is good now, but what if it isn’t one day? Then what?” I absolutely hate that line of thinking so much, and so many of them fall into that. Judge the show on what it is, not what it might one day be.

The Bad Place never did seem like a “second chances” kind of deal. Are the bad placers also being punished for giving Michael a try, or are they also in on his punishment? Real Eleanor seemed too bereaved by her mediocre role for her to be in on it.

Is Jason somehow going to be right the magic panda being the key?

Was Michael’s “aw, farts,” a shout-out to Last Man on Earth (on which his wife Mary Steenburgen has delivered the “oh farts” line with devastating effect?)

Okay, the more I think about it, the more this all being a punishment for michael makes sense. The Good Place (the neighborhood, not The Good Place the show) has failed so many times because it’s fundamentally unsound. It has a fatal flaw that cannot be countered, the fact that there’s a pain threshold. At some point,…

Tahini, still under the impression that she’s in The Good Place, did not have to worry about being sent to the Bad Place at that point last year. She would not be caught dead in a Medium place.

I hope so. I really don’t care for unfulfilled teases like the one we got last season, and these writers seem way too competent to let that relationship fall entirely by the wayside.

Yeah I agree, but Tahani-Eleanor just in this episode seeming so remote was irksome—and why would Tahani have only been to Mindy’s once, while Chidi was “usually in the mix”?

It went a little heavy on the antagonistic aspects of their relationship and too light on Eleanor calling her hot.

If ever one of you guys gets to interview Schur or someone involved with this show, I would be fascinated to learn just how long it took to shoot this episode. Because the sheer number of set ups and wardrobe changes necessary for all those iterations of The Good Place must’ve been time consuming, yet so worth it.

I think one can defend the casting choice, but it is odd that Michaels didn’t speak to Hammond about it personally, given their history.

I think the reason why Baldwin’s trump was kept was because it’s not *quite* right, and it drives trump CRAZY. it’s the one-two punch of Hollywood actor + not quite right impression that put Baldwin over the top because both things make trump insane, which increases viewers & ratings.

I think you mean, Alec Baldwin’s, Emmy Award over Matt Walsh, Tony Hale, Louie Anderson, Tituss Burgess, and Ty Burrell winning Trump impression is pretty terrible.

I never knew Hammond had battled such personal demons. And the blurb makes it sound like Michael announced they’d be going with Baldwin over Hammond the way a football coach or baseball manager would announce they’re changing starting quarterbacks or pitchers — only Michaels apparently didn’t bother letting Hammond…

I’ve caught a few episodes and some bits and I do like it. I liked Anthony from Comedy Bang Bang before. I don’t have cable and Comedy Central recently took a lot of their shit off hulu and want you to sign in on their own website to watch current shows now. So I mostly watch their shows in clips on youtube, which I…

Yeah, neither Armisen nor Pharoah had a particularly strong take on Obama, but Pharoah was at least capturing his basic mannerisms correctly, his sort of confident, casual aloofness. Armisen played him like he plays nearly every role—as a performative weirdo who’s overcompensating because he’s uncomfortable in his own…

I’m going to neither disagree or agree with you about Armisen’s Obama. My break-the-internet, scorching take is that neither were that good, because neither Pharoah or Armisen ever really had a read on the guy. Pharoah’s might have been technically better but they were both just exaggerating a few mannerisms and that…

I wouldnt usually complain about Chastain in a movie, but is a white character’s POV still required for these sorts of movies? I think our imagination can stretch to empathise with Sitting Bull.