100% this.

Actually he was credited as Nick Offerman unlike the philosophers who were credited as him/herself. I’m really curious to know if that was intentional.

When watching the penultimate episode, I thought that it was the finale, and Chidi’s last line seemed like a perfect conclusion - that the Good Place is “not even a place, really. It’s just having enough time with the people you love.”

I get why you feel the way you do. The problem here is time reference. It is implied that eons go by over the course of the finale, which essentially makes it impossible for people like you and me to understand how anyone could come to the decisions that Chidi et al. come to about their existences.

“Once a man’s been broken by that belief (or realization,) how do you “rehabilitate” him to be a genuinely good person?”

For one, by overthrowing and fixing the omnipotent fascist bureaucracy. 

Son of a bitch.

Story-wise he got his ending, but philosophically he’s still a loose end. I’d say he’s only or two steps removed from my perennial complaint about one of the major philosophical roads not taken by the show.

Imagine a universe in which Nick Offerman was Shawn and Nick Offerman was also Kevin in Brooklyn Nine-Nine...

I think the twist here is there is no twist. No rugs to pull, no deadline to beat. In the end, everyone landed in the right spot, organically, for their characters. To me, that was the most satisfying way to approach it. The right, obvious finish usually is, because you spend all the time leading up to it, even the…

I’m very tempted to be smug about the fact that Michael’s ultimate ending was becoming human, since when I brought it up as a trans allegory thing some folks tried to argue with me that he didn’t really want that for some reason. But this show has taught me to be a less petty, more thoughtful person, so instead I’ll…

I imagine disgruntled former Republicans who jumped ship when the tea party and then trump took over the party?

Honestly this discussion pops up every couple of years, and this is all I can think about

You can’t usually tell if they’re listening to someone/something, that’s kinda the point. If someone is trying to talk to me and they have a headphone (even just one) in their ear(s) then I’m going to assume they don’t really care about me or what I’m saying, especially if I’m someone in the service industry like a…

It’s different because you’re telling the person you’re talking to that whatever might come in through that airpod is more important than they are. Also, how do you know he wasn’t listening to music or something? It doesn’t say that anywhere.

Whole foods has never baked their bread in house. It comes frozen and par-baked like at almost every other store. The only large grocer that actually makes bread from dough is Publix and it’s only some of theirs. A lot of their hot bar stuff and desserts and such are premade as well (whole foods.) I worked there for a…

There is no way to talk about his legacy other than to say he’s a rapist. The hero worship of this guy is disgusting. It’s fine to feel sympathy for his wife having lost her daughter at such a young age with so much promise and the father to her daughter but screw Kobe Bryant. I mean I could give people feeling bad a…

I’d guess that Amazon tries to slough off Whole Foods to some other (Private Equity?) buyer within a year or two.

I’m not anti-Amazon at all, but their purchase of Whole Foods has been something of a disaster from a customer standpoint. I went from being a semi-regular shopper to three or four times per year. Even without “disappearing suppliers” the stocking of many shelves (particularly produce) has been terrible since Amazon.…

It was almost like if the Doctor had been a man, this new Doctor would have been wearing a goatee

there’s no way Jack doesn’t come back for the finale - along with Doctor-Ruth, and almost certainly Dhawan-Master. the real question is if all of that, the Lone Cybermen foreshadowing and the Timeless Child stuff can somehow all fit together into an episode that isn’t a complete and utter mess. this episode skirted…