Given the number of states where it’s now legal, I’m sure they’ve at least looked into it...

“The show can’t seem to decide if Tina is turning into a confident (but weird) young woman with a social life of her own, or if she’s a loser who has no friends and trick-or-treats with her little-kid siblings and eats cat food.”

Louise SOMETIMES cares (I acknowledged “she has her moments”), but those instances are memorable BECAUSE they’re rare. Far more often, we’ll see her reveling in someone else’s pain and/or humiliation, especially if she had a hand in causing it (she has explicitly and sincerely said “Nobody gets to torture my family…

I disagree. Louise is clearly the character who LEAST cares whether other people are happy (although she has her moments). Teddy and Linda have the common fault, however, of confusing what would make THEM happy with what would make SOMEBODY ELSE happy. And both of them try too hard, which makes it worse.

We know that context matters at least SOME in the points system, given that “Fixing a tricycle for a child who loves tricycles” is worth more points than “Fixing a tricycle for a child who is indifferent to tricycles.”

Well, that’s what we’re going to find out. From Michael’s conversations with Sean I’m assuming that “retirement” is not merely the consequence of failure and discovery but that it’s as excruciating as it’s been reported, so the stakes would seem to be real. That’s why I’m assuming that his desire to escape to the REAL…

“La Mer?” More like “La Merde,” am I right?

I’m allergic to shrimp/shellfish myself, but since I can’t stand eating bugs anyway it doesn’t bother me.

From a Utilitarian perspective, the (presumably) obvious answer is that it is better that one (innocent and anonymous) person die than that five (equally innocent and anonymous) people die. But that scenario is just the jumping off point, as the show acknowledges. It gets less “obvious” when you start adding in other…

They could do a Theme Night, like they used to. Superstore, The Good Place, and Will & Grace each plot to kill baby Hitler, and then Great News reports which one succeeded...

I sneaked a peek at Chidi’s lesson plan. The next class was supposed to ask “Would you kill baby Hitler?” but he crossed it out so violently the paper tore. I wonder why...

I sneaked a peek at Chidi’s lesson plan. In the next session he was going to ask “Would you kill baby Hitler?” but for some reason he crossed it out so violently the paper tore.

I’m a Shakespeare guy, but I support Chidi‘s decision to kill five William Shakespeares rather than one Santa Claus. If there are five William Shakespeares it stands to reason that there may well be MORE than five, so the loss of these PARTICULAR five need not mean their extinction. However, if you were confronted…

You mentioned I, Robot, and I was already going to cite the rescue from the sinking car. If the robots calculate that by trying to rescue the child before the adult there’s a 78% chance both will die, and by trying to save the adult before the child there’s a 63% chance that at least one will live, it makes sense to…

I’d say that the end result is to become good enough people to DESERVE to be in the Good Place, not just to cheat their way into it by being given the right answers. Tahani, for instance, is already in the Bad Place for doing lots of good things for bad reasons.

I’d call graphite a more boring arrangement of carbon atoms than diamonds are. Seriously, all those right angles? Blah. Is it just me?

I’m surprised he didn’t claim to have come up with Impressionism himself.

Solo Two: So Nu?

Well, glad we cleared that up.

Can I agree that the apology was lame while still thinking the “#Rashomon” tag was well-used? Regardless of it being used in reference to an Asian, it distills his point into a single word: Two people may remember the same event very differently, without deceitful intent on either side. It’s certainly less charged…