I think there are multiple bad places because there are multiple moral systems. I don't mean in universe, I mean from the external perspective of making this a show partly about ethics and moral philosophy. There could be a bad place for people who fail to care for others (which would apply to all four of our main…

Hell is indeed other people! I loved it.

They absolutely will. Seems to me the show's whole argument is that no rigid system of morality can account for or fairly encompass human beings, and they're going to make that point in different ways. Notice how often humans' unpredictability was remarked on. Or even "make something great a little bit worse so you…

I doubt very much that it's inadvertent at all. The entire premise of the in-show fiction of the good place relies on an audience that will immediately accept the notion of virtue leading to a reward in the afterlife, but also find itself troubled by the apparent stringency of the rules. All of that can be assumed for…

Exactly. They never gave you the math for how intentions stack up against consequences. It's like…MORAL PHILOSOPHY!!

I was thinking this a few episodes back with all the soulmate business, but I didn't quite know what it was I was thinking, if you see what I mean. I remember thinking that all this obsession with one's soulmate was a nice little send-up of how lots of shows seem to just decide characters should be together and then…

In a way it reminds me of the Ancient Greek system. Myth-level heroes got the Elysian Fields, and everybody else got to float around in Hades forgetting their identities (barring some extraordinary exceptions like "got turned into a constellation" or "was made a god" or "turned into a tree to escape a harasser"). It…

Now that we have those, yeah, probably. It's more that I think some people are so busy being on spoiler patrol that they fail to realize that if something is phrased the right way, it doesn't have to be a problem at all, and then when they jump on it they turn it into something else. I just feel like the zealotry of…

He said it with such happy stars in his eyes!

I think maybe at that time Freud hadn't been so discredited yet, so in his pseudo intellectual ~auteur~ mind it probably isn't really even a revealing thing to say.

Call me crazy, but I'm saying New York.

Love your point about Bash. It's like he went through Best Little Boy in the World Syndrome and has come out the other side, but knows how to turn it back on when he needs to.

Somebody in the damn comments ruined it. Actually it was even worse, because they phrased it as a guess and then somebody else replied with a sarcastic, "Sure, you're juuuust guessing." I really believe far more damage is done on average by people yelling about spoilers, thus confirming that they are significant…

Completely.

It's called "trying to get funding." There's a new buzzword every few years that does this duty. Currently it's "countering violent extremism," though I think that one might be on its way out.

ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA vs. THE AMERICAN PEOPLE'S ENCYCLOPEDIA

There's a lot to be appreciated about Sam's chillitude at the clinic, and that includes the fact that I fully believe he has waited for a woman while she gets an abortion at least twice before.

normally i would say "rekt" here but i'll go with "destroya'd"

Keith seems like a genuinely great husband. That never happens on TV!

She was trying to take the heat off herself like the spoiled girl Cherry pegged her as from the start. I tend to think that's part of why Cherry wasn't so hard on Debbie. She wasn't gonna fall for that shit.