This episode gave us the solid proof why Eleanor was sent to the Bad Place: she pronounced "gif" like the damn peanut butter. NO ELEANOR NO.
Can't drink, smoke, diddle my willy. Doesn't leave much to do other than watch you blokes stumble around playing Agatha Christie.
Spike ,'The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco'
Comedy 1: A Little Song, a Little Dance, a Little Seltzer Down Your Pants
This thread is for comedy TV, including network and cable shows. [NAFDA]
Steph L. - Sep 27, 2018 6:23:40 pm PDT #7989 of 8624
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
-t - Sep 28, 2018 4:21:39 am PDT #7990 of 8624
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
That kind of shocked me, yeah.
Jesse - Sep 28, 2018 5:49:59 am PDT #7991 of 8624
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Ha!
sj - Sep 28, 2018 6:37:14 am PDT #7992 of 8624
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
The Good Place: The show actually caused me to do a spit take last night. It was so good!
Murphy Brown: I laughed several times, but everyone seemed sort of awkward and uncomfortable. I am hoping it gets a bit edgier and less predictable, and it needs to lose the laugh track.
Mom: That was a dull premiere.
Laura - Sep 28, 2018 6:52:37 am PDT #7993 of 8624
Our wings are not tired.
I haven't watched any of the premieres yet, but appreciate the warning on the laugh track. I'll try and brace myself. Laugh tracks throw me so badly.
-t - Sep 28, 2018 6:53:22 am PDT #7994 of 8624
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Agreed on Murphy Brown. I hope that's just the first episode establishing everything. And, yeah, the laugh track is jarring. We'll see.
Jessica - Sep 28, 2018 7:04:00 am PDT #7995 of 8624
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
I bailed on Murphy Brown about ten minutes in. I loved the original incarnation but this was painfully awkward and unfunny. And it's been so long since I watched a multi-camera sitcom I forgot how jarring it is when the lighting changes between angles!
GOOD PLACE = LOVE
DXMachina - Sep 28, 2018 8:58:23 am PDT #7996 of 8624
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
One nice touch on The Good Place was that, of course, Eleanor would know about both Kamilah and her sister. It was fun to see Mike O'Malley, too.
DebetEsse - Sep 28, 2018 9:42:30 pm PDT #7997 of 8624
Woe to the fucking wicked.
I was enjoying Michael's Steven Seagal look in Tahani's near-death event.
Topic!Cindy - Sep 29, 2018 7:34:18 am PDT #7998 of 8624
What is even happening?
I bailed on Murphy Brown about ten minutes in. I loved the original incarnation but this was painfully awkward and unfunny. And it's been so long since I watched a multi-camera sitcom I forgot how jarring it is when the lighting changes between angles!
The cold open (the video montage with that classic rock song I'm not going to spoil) had me SO excited, but then yes, everything you said, Jess.
I also felt like I was watching old people put on a high school play. Everyone seemed to be overacting, except Candice, who didn't seem at ease or that engaged with the character.
Thursday was also a particularly heavy day for anything political, which is also supposed to be funny. The way news works now, even if they manage to lose the laugh track and make it edgier and less predictable, like sj recommends, I'm wondering they can pull it off.
GOOD PLACE = LOVE
It really does. I think I love it so much (aside from the fabulous cast) because it has everything I like in a serial drama, and yet it's a half-hour comedy.
One nice touch on The Good Place was that, of course, Eleanor would know about both Kamilah and her sister. It was fun to see Mike O'Malley, too.
I also loved that Eleanor said she didn't really like Kamilah.
Vulture has published a supposedly complete list of every name Tahani has ever dropped: [link]