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 Trailer Some behind the scenes thing quote:After she is struck and killed by a tractor-trailer carrying erectile dysfunction products, a woman named Eleanor wakes up to discover she has entered the afterlife. But when she is told by her mentor Michael that she is in "the good place" because she did a good deed by helping get innocent people off death row, she realizes that a mistake has been made and they think she is someone else. Stuck in a world where no one curses or gets drunk and everyone is always nice, Eleanor finds herself caught between staying in the afterlife or trying to find a way to return to the mundane life she had back on Earth. This is the first show entirely created by Michael Schur, who worked on The Office for a number of years before co-creating Parks and Rec with Greg Daniels and Brooklyn Nine-Nine with Dan Goor, serving as the showrunner on the former, so he has a hell of a track record. I'm not entirely sure about the premise yet, but Danson and Bell are great comedy actors (doesn't really seem to be anyone else major in the cast yet) and the trailer is cute. Premieres on Monday September 19th before moving to its regular time slot of Thursdays at 8:30 on the 22nd.
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This premieres tonight! And here I was thinking I was making the thread too late less than a week before it started. Cool interview with Schur here: http://www.avclub.com/article/michael-schur-knows-where-good-place-going-thanks--242700
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Sep 19, 2016 18:05
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It's really weird that they're airing three episodes this week. I hope it survives, it's getting good buzz.
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Sep 19, 2016 19:59
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Pretty fun so far. Laughed a lot at the froyo bit.
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Sep 20, 2016 03:11
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This TV show thinks I'm going to hell. It's a weird feeling.
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Sep 20, 2016 03:13
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So far this is off to a forking good start.
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Sep 20, 2016 03:24
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I'm assuming since Drew Goddard is directing the pilot the discomforting feeling I get from this is purposeful.
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Sep 20, 2016 03:36
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I do like the little bits of people being slightly unhappy, like Tahani and rolling her eyes at the vow of silence.
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Sep 20, 2016 03:40
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Eh... it's kind of meh so far
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Sep 20, 2016 03:41
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Enjoyed the hell out of it. Especially kicking the dog into the sun. Anyone got screenshots of their point system. There were some amazing site gags on there.
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Sep 20, 2016 04:02
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I definitely caught "Stayed loyal to Cleveland Browns +50"
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Sep 20, 2016 04:06
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They had become the NFL commissioner on there at like -800 points
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Sep 20, 2016 04:10
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One of them was "Began to compose social media post about David Bowie dying and then thought, ‘The world doesn’t need to hear my thoughts on David Bowie.'" It'll be up on Hulu later tonight so it shouldn't be too hard for someone to get screen caps.
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Sep 20, 2016 04:10
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Relentlessboredomm posted:Enjoyed the hell out of it. Especially kicking the dog into the sun. Alan Sepinwall has you covered Heh -100 points for rooting for the Yankees howe_sam fucked around with this message at 04:39 on Sep 20, 2016 |
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Sep 20, 2016 04:28
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Wonderful thank you. The NFL commissioner and Cleveland Browns one are fantastic. Also love this combo: Ate Vegan: +429.65 Never Discussed Veganism Unprompted: +9881.62
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Sep 20, 2016 04:47
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"Fixed tricycle for child who loves tricycles" "Fixed tricycle for child who is indifferent to tricycles"
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Sep 20, 2016 04:54
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At the start of the episode I noticed that Kirsten Bell is cross eyed. And from there on out, I couldn't really focus on anything else.It was really obvious at some point and I never noticed it before. Is Strabismus something which gets worse with age? Now I feel kinda bad for being so superficial.
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Sep 20, 2016 08:23
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Began to compose Social Media post about the death of David Bowie and then thought "The world doesn't need to hear my thoughts on David Bowie" +216.22 Ate Vegan +620.43 Never discussed veganism unprompted +9855.59 X-O fucked around with this message at 09:06 on Sep 20, 2016 |
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Sep 20, 2016 09:04
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It is odd, the actor who plays Chidi looks really familiar, but he doesn't seem to have been in anything else i have seen.
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Sep 20, 2016 12:41
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Liked this a lot but think it could do with being a little slower. I'm happy to spend some time exploring the characters and the world instead of going full-speed ahead with the mystery elements. Not that that stops it from being a strong start.
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Sep 20, 2016 12:48
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Assuming the show lasts long enough to get to this point, I'm going to throw out the theory that The Bad Place is just being reincarnated on Earth, and that's why they're tight lipped on information about it.
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Sep 20, 2016 14:16
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bad place is prolly a fun place and all the screaming from the sound clip was just from a bangin' party
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Sep 20, 2016 14:42
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Oasx posted:It is odd, the actor who plays Chidi looks really familiar, but he doesn't seem to have been in anything else i have seen. He reminds me a lot of Echo Kellum.
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Sep 20, 2016 14:42
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That was really good. Only bummer is they probably won't be able to have the cool set pieces long term due to tv budgets. Lot of material for jokes though, and I'd follow Schur drat near anywhere.
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Sep 20, 2016 15:27
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Honestly, when everything started going wrong, I assumed the plot twist was that The Good Place was under attack, and they'd need Eleanor to teach them how to be terrible people to fight back. Slightly disappointed they're going with the more standard 'learning to be a better person' route instead, but heck, I'll still take it. It's a fun show! Some other plus or minuses I noticed: Use "Facebook" as a verb: -5.55 Use the term "Bro-Code" -7.84 Commit Genocide: -435295.20 End Slavery: +814772.33 Telling a woman to "Smile": -53 Overstate personal connection to tragedy that has nothing to do with you: -42.20 Blow nose by pressing nostril down and exhaling: -5.81 Attended cousin's friend's child's jazz dance recital +22.74 Gave our full size candy bars at halloween: +633.59
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Sep 20, 2016 16:22
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That was OK. I enjoyed it enough to keep watching for now, but I'm not 100% sold. And throughout the entire episode I just kept wondering why all these supposedly good, selfless people are just totally OK with the vast majority of people going to hell. The only one even slightly bothered by that is Eleanor, and her only as regards her personally ending up there.Relentlessboredomm posted:Anyone got screenshots of their point system. There were some amazing site gags on there. FoxTerrier posted:Commit Genocide: -435295.20
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Sep 20, 2016 17:08
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Some good person is gonna be consigned to the Bad Place due to floating point arithmetic imprecision, and it'll all be the fault of the designer who didn't think to just multiply all the points by a hundred.
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Sep 20, 2016 17:42
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Calling it now, Elanor is supposed to be in the Good Place as Chidi's reward. He got a difficult ethical quandary to unravel and can now spend eternity dedicating himself to the thing he was most passionate about.
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Sep 20, 2016 19:43
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Jack of Hearts posted:Some good person is gonna be consigned to the Bad Place due to floating point arithmetic imprecision, and it'll all be the fault of the designer who didn't think to just multiply all the points by a hundred. For all we know, those numbers could actually be stored as long ints. One day a saint who ended 30 different slaveries is suddenly incredibly far in the red due to an overflow error.
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Sep 20, 2016 20:14
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Jack of Hearts posted:Some good person is gonna be consigned to the Bad Place due to floating point arithmetic imprecision, and it'll all be the fault of the designer who didn't think to just multiply all the points by a hundred. If they want to go kind of cliche they could have it that the person that they mixed Eleanor up with was sent to the Bad Place after being a good person and so Eleanor has to chose whether or not to sacrifice herself by switching places. Of course by choosing to do that she earns enough points to legitimately be in the Good Place.
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Sep 20, 2016 22:00
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Tiggum posted:That was OK. I enjoyed it enough to keep watching for now, but I'm not 100% sold. And throughout the entire episode I just kept wondering why all these supposedly good, selfless people are just totally OK with the vast majority of people going to hell. The only one even slightly bothered by that is Eleanor, and her only as regards her personally ending up there. That kind of bugged me too. The premise seems to be "Didn't personally become a saint on earth while you were there? Congrats, you're just as bad as Hitler, Pol Pot and Jeffrey Dahmer all rolled into one." It seems like all those good people really should be concerned about that. Especially the Ethics professor.
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Sep 20, 2016 22:51
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I have to imagine that there's some kind of twist to the whole "Bad Place" narrative just because of how monstrously unfair the system is.
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Sep 20, 2016 23:47
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seaborgium posted:That kind of bugged me too. The premise seems to be "Didn't personally become a saint on earth while you were there? Congrats, you're just as bad as Hitler, Pol Pot and Jeffrey Dahmer all rolled into one." It seems like all those good people really should be concerned about that. Especially the Ethics professor. They mentioned that there are many, many, many "Good Places" and they are selected to be in their good place with like minded people that they will live in perfect harmony with. Presumably most people go to a Good Place, just not that particular Good Place. Probably when it is time to wrap all this up they will explain it was just a clerical error and she was in fact supposed to go to the Good Place all along because people for all their faults are basically good, even the kind of lovely people. I liked the first episode, I think it is generally going to be a feel good series and I seriously doubt even at it's end they would take a serious dark turn and send her off to the Bad Place. And part of the human condition is almost all of us worry about being "bad people", society would probably be miserable if we didn't. Three Olives fucked around with this message at 01:47 on Sep 21, 2016 |
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Sep 21, 2016 01:45
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They say only the best of the best go to the Good Place. The show presents a weird and unsettling view of the afterlife, and presumably it's going to tear down the concept over the season. We see Ted Danson kick a dog into the sun and then tell its owner it's not a real dog and it doesn't actually love her. This show seems willing to get a bit weird and dark.
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Sep 21, 2016 01:51
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Tiggum posted:That was OK. I enjoyed it enough to keep watching for now, but I'm not 100% sold. And throughout the entire episode I just kept wondering why all these supposedly good, selfless people are just totally OK with the vast majority of people going to hell. The only one even slightly bothered by that is Eleanor, and her only as regards her personally ending up there. Well they pretty explicitly make light of that fact, so no doubt it'll be something that comes up later.
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Sep 21, 2016 02:53
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Air is lava! posted:At the start of the episode I noticed that Kirsten Bell is cross eyed. And from there on out, I couldn't really focus on anything else.It was really obvious at some point and I never noticed it before. Is Strabismus something which gets worse with age? She's got a lazy eye, she used it really well in her guest spot on Deadwood. She said when she gets tired it gets worse so that scene was probably shot at the end of a day.
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Sep 21, 2016 03:03
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I put a spider outside safely tonight. Ding, 40 points!
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Sep 21, 2016 03:23
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muscles like this? posted:I have to imagine that there's some kind of twist to the whole "Bad Place" narrative just because of how monstrously unfair the system is. raditts posted:Well they pretty explicitly make light of that fact, so no doubt it'll be something that comes up later. Three Olives posted:I think it is generally going to be a feel good series and I seriously doubt even at it's end they would take a serious dark turn and send her off to the Bad Place.
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Sep 21, 2016 04:11
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Given how little anybody cares about people who didn't make it to The Good Place and how 2 of the 3 pairs of soul mates we've seen so far seem to be annoyed by each other, I'm guess she actually is in The Bad Place, or at least A Less Good Place
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Inspector 34 posted:Given how little anybody cares about people who didn't make it to The Good Place and how 2 of the 3 pairs of soul mates we've seen so far seem to be annoyed by each other, I'm guess she actually is in The Bad Place, or at least A Less Good Place I think that's supposed to just be because Ted Danson is bad at his job.
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