Oof, I've been just the worst at posting in 2018. I've already given up on posting about movies and books - check Letterboxd and Goodreads respectively for those - but I should really not fall a week behind on TV posts! Anyway, The Good Place.
What a delightful little show this has become! Season 1 didn't exactly grab me right away, and I only ever checked it out because of its pedigree - Mike Schur doesn't make bad television, you know? - but Season 2 just kept reinventing the show, getting better and better every week, and I think at this point I'd genuinely call the show one of the best on TV.
A Vulture piece from a few weeks back (http://www.vulture.com/2018/01/the-good-place-all-the-ways-its-blown-up-its-own-premise.html) did a pretty good job of laying out why this is. More or less, the show constantly re-formats and tweaks its own status quo, never settling down for ore than an episode or two at once before completely yanking the rug out from underneath us - all while keeping its characters and their traits and relationships to one another fairly consistent. And there's a heart underneath it all; in all of its various iterations and formats, the show has always been, albeit very superficially, about being a good person, and moreover, about learning how to become a better person.
It's rarely laugh-out-loud hilarious, and it's only as poignant as you might expect an NBC comedy to be, but it's clever and it's inventive and it just keeps having fun. What's not to love about it? (Aside from the seasons being thirteen episodes long and cleaved nearly in half by a Christmas hiatus, of course. What's up with that?)
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