A thing that rules about The Good Place is that it reboots itself roughly three times a season. I mean, the characters themselves have very literally been "rebooted" three or four times each now, and that's excluding the best episode of the series to date, where they were rebooted like a thousand times each.
But all that rebooting is also a handicap of sorts, and the first half of Season 3 felt like the worst version of this show so far, a dragging go-nowhere run where our characters were stuck on earth (so, no fun powers for Michael or Janet) and reintroducing themselves to one another for what's already the third time in the show's run. Season 3 picked up steam somewhere around its midpoint - not coincidentally, when the humans left earth again and the show got back to poking around in the odd corners of the weird realms of the afterlife (like the accounting department, Janet's void, the good place's mailroom, and the interdimensional hole of pancakes). But it all ended on a lackluster note all over again as - spoilers, I guess - Chidi voluntarily had his memory erased again and the humans are back in a "neighborhood"-style faux-good place again. Sigh.
Look, I like this show an awful lot, and it's doing things with the 22-minute broadcast sitcom format I'd never imagined were possible. What it's attempting is hard as hell, what with all the constant reboots and the breakneck pace of new territory it explores. But when you aim for something hard as hell and falter, I mean, you still falter. That's all I'm pointing out, I guess, is that The Good Place capably hits high notes that are just unsustainably good, like all of Season 2 and the middle of Season 3. I'm very much looking forward to Season 4, and that alone is such a rare and delightful thing to be able to say about any TV show in 2019!
Also, how much you wanna bet Blake Bortles makes a guest appearance next year? You know they've put some feelers out at least.
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