Parks & Recreation might have been the defining show of the Obama era, but it seems horribly dated in light of 2016. The Good Place is the dark inversion of Pawnee, premiering at around the same time we as a country realized that we were in the bad place.

Over the Garden Wall!

Fringe!

The Americans!

Inside No. 9!

Inspector Lewis and Endeavour!

I’m honestly so impressed by this first episode. I’m thrilled by Tom Hooper’s directing and love that the script gives primacy to quieter moments that a movie would have to leave out. Finally, the wound of the 2007 film, which I have borne these twelve years, can begin to heal.

I’m in the middle of the first book and the writing and build-up are wonderful.

It was infuriating how they filmed the ending of the movie and then showed us That Scene in the trailers, as if to torment us with what could have been.

Can we really say the reception to the final season was “decidedly mixed” when it was universally loathed and derided?

I think recent political events have cast any show with a morally compromised white male anti-hero in a slightly more sinister light. That said, I still appreciate it as a riveting work of pulp storytelling.

he was legitimately the most memorable part of the movie.

and Agatha Christie!

I think more fantasy writers should go the Agatha Christie route (as opposed to the Dickens route) and give their characters decently normal names.

This is one of my favorite moments in the whole show. I think about it at least once every day.

did we learn nothing from Ken Bone

The first two books are uniformly excellent. The end of the first book (cut from the original movie, alas) is thrilling.

The worst mistake the show ever made was trying to get ahead of George R. R. Martin, someone who actually knows how to tell a story.

The books are so good and it’s infuriating that the show botched these last two seasons so badly. I’m dying to read the unreleased sixth book so I can see how a real storyteller would have handled this material. 

Boyhood! Lady Bird! Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire!

did... did Woody Allen write this

This is great news; On My Block doesn‘t get nearly enough love, and the second season ended on a real banger of a cliffhanger.

weren’t the Harry Potter movies essentially cheesy Victorian dramas? and they were insanely profitable and GREAT.

They should go out like Hamlet in the final episode, just clear the field.