I can’t get over this rare Good Place error. Any dirtbag knows it’s Alkaseltzer.

I can’t tell if Disco Janet is the worst Bad Janet or best Good Janet. Those are the only two choices. (Our Janet transcends Janet now due to all the reboots)

In the same year as Endgame, you have to wonder what kids are learning about consequences from movies more than happy to roll them back in search of a happier ending.

I didn’t say it’s important that the story be about white women. I’m saying that she chose this specific evangelical christianity to write about, and that’s a valid choice.

You claim that it’s about women, but it’s not. It’s about white women.

The issue with what Atwood did was that she didn’t do anything with the whole ethnic-cleansing thing.

the show’s sell-by date and show climax are going to coincide just about perfectly.

“actually I’m not supposed to do that any more.” Right Barry.

That brief moment of doubt before she flashed the smile is what sold it.  Little blink, little headshake...

I didn’t really laugh a lot at this one... but damn I was on the edge of my seat. This season The Good Place is, at times, less funny to me (it can still be downright hilarious, don’t get me wrong) but a lot more emotionally and thematically intense.

He’d crash charity parties without donating. He’d push his way into publicity photos for events he wasn’t invited to. He once said he’s save an important art-deco fresco for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, then destroyed it basically the next day because he didn’t feel like doing it any more (To be fair, Trump…

True. The “Uncle Remus*” stories are oral tradition variations of trickster tales from Africa (usually an Anansi or Monkey story transfered to animals found in the American south) are not racist in plot or action. However the presentation of them in the book the animated sequences were based on was very problematic,…

Bowen got laughs with just one word in the Dance Rehearsal sketch and the Judge sketch. I get the feeling that Keenan has taken him under his wing. They both have this way of walking into a sketch knowing exactly who the character is and totally owning the place. They aren’t cocky, but boy are they both effortlessly…

Walt Kelly, who, when a daily strip might prove too controversial for any number of his syndicate papers, would write and draw a non-political “bunny strip”

It’s weird, but amusing how they just randomly pop up for a month and vanish. “This month you get Goldfinger and Thunderball... Sorry, now your stuck with Octopussy, The Man with the Golden Gun, and View to A Killy for two months... Hey, Godlfinger is back, with Goldeneye as well!”

First Jason, no effect, then Janet.  But something tells me she’s going to be a marble for a little while.

Oh!  Don’t know that one.  I’ll check it out this weekend.  Thanks.

If Shawn doesn’t get punched in the mouth next episode I will be very upset.

This episode is why I’ve stopped looking at The Good Place as a series of puzzles to solve and instead am simply going along for the ride.  The show is great at laying out clues and following it’s own logic but it’s so funny.  Just so damn…

True, but you can’t go back to all the antecedents and influences. If the author traced The Zone all the way back we’d find enchanted forests and Mount Olympus.  The author is here writing about a specific kind of Zone, and that one his influenced our views of real Zones like Chernobyl.

I’ll give you Red State. It’s one of those films that just needed one more rewrite.