Holy Shirt! You’re right! I am an enlightened monk, not a guy from Florida!
New episode: “Exisential Crisis”.
Another filler episode: more of a look at Eleanor’s parents, J(e)anet(tte) continues to be the best thing in the show.
Personally I wouldn’t rate Tahani more than an 11 in any of those metrics.
I just stumbled across this at the ew.com web site. I checked to see that no one had yet posted it, but if I missed a post, I apologize in advance.
Apparently, none of the actors, other than Michael and Eleanor, were told in advance about how season 1 would end. Eleanor (Kristen Bell) made a video of the cast being told what would happen at the end and captured their reactions as they found out. Here is the video.
Great video!
I had to rewatch last nights episode a few times to catch all the one liners. This show is getting better and better.
In a weird way, the quick wit is starting to remind me of vintage Archer.
Thanks, that’s pretty fun.
Even kind of filler-y episodes of this show are jam packed with fun moments… Michael’s ridiculous existential crisis, the animal-themed party, and Jason’s rating scale.
I’m holding steady on my prediction that this whole thing is actually about people improving… possibly including Michael.
I liked how Vicky using event planning to torture Tahani was actually more effective with Tahani being in on it.
Ugh. I have really enjoyed this show, but this week’s episode was very weak, and not funny. I think I laughed twice, and I can’t even recall at what. I’m hoping they get their mojo back soon.
I enjoyed this episode, and laughed out loud a couple times. Any episode that ends up with Tahani willingly in bed with Jason is not filler, but surely part of the plot.
After a couple of ok episodes, tonight’s was a home run. Loved everything about it. The trolley tests were hilarious, building joke on top of joke.
So whenever Janet said she was happy was when her programming glitched. She’s supposed to be impartial and dispassionate, but now she’s conflicting with that.
Definitely an improvement over last week’s episode. The whole Les Miserables discussion had me in stitches. I especially liked the bit about automatically losing points just for being French. Also, “Sacre Bleu, I have peed my pants!” LOL.
Nice callback to the guy with the ugly red boots.
Did anyone else notice the theater marquee when Chidi was driving the trolley? The double feature was Strangers Under a Train and Bend it Like Bentham
I love details like that! Did anyone catch the shrimp flavors? From left to right on the dispenser, I got:
Something BLAST, Circus something, Sriracha Sunrise, Garlic, Mystery Flavor, Cool Ranch, and something I can’t see.
What are the BLAST, the circus one, and the one in green on the right-hand end?
I see “Cajun”, but the photo I have is hard to read.
Another layer of the humor: just before he passes the theater marquee, Chidi mentions Utilitarianism. Bend it Like Bentham refers to Jeremy Bentham, the founder of Utilitarianism.
I don’t think it’s feeling happy - I think it’s feeling anything. Janet is becoming sentient.
I think this is (or should be) a much bigger deal going forward. Either Janet consciously violated her programming when she agreed to act as Tahani’s therapist, or else someone programmed her to go beyond simply being a “vessel” for all the knowledge in the universe.
Just how powerful could Janet be if she tried to do stuff beyond her original programming? And would it be good or evil?
It was mentioned in one episode that Janets get smarter every time they reboot, and our Janet has certainly been rebooted waaay more often that is typical.
It’s basically the exact opposite of Star Wars, where droids only become sentient if they go too long without a wipe.
Three more episodes down. I had a feeling that the show wouldn’t keep up with the incredible manic humor of the first two episodes…I mean, geez, that would’ve left everyone absolutely drained by about episode 4. The question is whether it was ready for the long haul. I’ve seen too many promising seasons or even entire shows get off to a flying start and then quickly grind to a halt. The original The Tick was a good example: The first ever episode of that ranks as one of the most brilliant, clever, fun, free, wickedly funny cartoon episodes I’ve seen in my life. And then the title character became an irritating clod and everything got mired in the swamp of “adult humor”, and that was all she wrote. Here, it looks like the writers are slowly building on the various arcs, really diving into the personalities of the four principals and developing them, while periodically throwing in a dash of the magical, and occasionally being downright shocking. (I never thought I’d see the day when a primetime comedy would use a friggin’ GIGANTIC SPRAY OF BLOOD as a sight gag!)
I’m getting the feeling that all this is building up to something really big. There are just too many signs that something’s off about the whole setup, even knowing that it’s not actually the Good Place. Eternal torture for meager sins for being indecisive or doing the right thing for the wrong reason? (Hey, look at our nations’s history; that’s pretty much the only way the right thing ever gets done!) The French all going to the Bad Place? Why? How?
In the meantime, I don’t really have a whole lot new to say. Still charming as hell, still hitting all the right notes, deserves all the accolades and awards it’s sure to get. So…see you at the end of the season. Barring something earthshaking, of course. Which, given Janet’s glitching, could conceivably happen. 
Oh, one last question…anyone know how how they did that thumb-flying-away thing? I don’t ever remember seeing a body effect that completely seamless before.
I actually laughed out loud at the first trolley splatter. And the second. I can’t remember the last time I saw a show that did that under the same circumstances (alone, tired, headache, generally blah). I smile or chuckle, but laughter is really a social thing, so it takes a lot for me to lose it alone.