Yeah I dunno something about this season isn't quite doing it for me yet
A lot of the social parody stuff has always felt a little cornball and hackneyed, but it was layered in with a bunch of other stuff, and usually shwon through the lens of beings that don't quite understand humanity. Now that they're in the real world they're having to lean on that stuff a lot more heavily, and there's never any question about whether or not you're supposed to just take the more cartoonish stuff at face value. I'm still enjoying the show but I'm groaning more than I wish I was.
In fairness season 2 is a tough act to follow. Especially its premiere. I'm still enjoying this, it's just not regularly blowing me away like the show has done in the past. But it's still early in the season so it's got plenty of time to get there again
One small touch I did like was Jason giving everyone an Autobot nickname except Trevor, who he called Megatron. Just intuitively knows that he's evil
JimothyNot in front of the foxhe's with the owlRegistered Userregular
But those are Jason’s nicknames
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JimothyNot in front of the foxhe's with the owlRegistered Userregular
Anyway, this week’s podcast confirmed that Kirby is attempting an Australian accent. Mark Evan Jackson even praised her for it
This after another episode of me not even questioning that she’s meant to be British
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PaperLuigi44My amazement is at maximum capacity.Registered Userregular
Janet without her powers was hilarious. D'arcy Carden really needs to lead her own comedy and soon.
As for the future of the show, I'm gearing up for the next episode to be the season 9 finale at this rate before something else happens, but I trust the creators with wherever they take it.
Not reading above because I'm only five minutes into the episode, but if this entire season is set in Australia and they keep using it as an opportunity to make deliberately terrible australian accent jokes, then I will readily believe i have been sent to a very personally-targeted bad place.
She is so great and perfect, I'm honestly wondering if
She's from The Real Good place somehow.
That would be a stretch, to be honest. I feel like she works much better representing the good of humanity, but from a grounded perspective, rather than the exaggerated demon parodies from season 1.
That said, I could see them finding the point tallies in Accounting and she's still in the negative, because of how messed up the point system is.
She is so great and perfect, I'm honestly wondering if
She's from The Real Good place somehow.
That would be a stretch, to be honest. I feel like she works much better representing the good of humanity, but from a grounded perspective, rather than the exaggerated demon parodies from season 1.
That said, I could see them finding the point tallies in Accounting and she's still in the negative, because of how messed up the point system is.
Yeah I'm hoping this current development is going to lead to a closer examination of the whole afterlife system
I think this season is where I've lost interest with the show
I'm not particularly engaged with this season's premise, I was way more interested in Michael when he was either an asshole or an asshole pretending to be a dork, and now the show just kinda seems like wheelspinning now
I don't really feel much of a progression with the characters anymore and the characters that HAVE progressed have progressed in ways that make them less interesting
It feels like they've run out of road on the show's premise
I think this season is where I've lost interest with the show
I'm not particularly engaged with this season's premise, I was way more interested in Michael when he was either an asshole or an asshole pretending to be a dork, and now the show just kinda seems like wheelspinning now
I don't really feel much of a progression with the characters anymore and the characters that HAVE progressed have progressed in ways that make them less interesting
It feels like they've run out of road on the show's premise
The show's surprised me enough that I'm willing to see where it's going, even though I can very easily see feeling the way you do in retrospect depending on how this season goes
Luckily the season 2 finale works fairly well as like, an ambiguous, open-ended but hopeful ending, so if the worst case scenario happens you can just kinda pretend it ends there
PaperLuigi44My amazement is at maximum capacity.Registered Userregular
I think the ending to the latest episode has them aiming at the right trajectory (the humans being on the same page again re: afterlife), it just depends on them sticking the landing. Which I still have faith in.
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Also its canon now that Chidi is so swole because he constantly does upper body exercise when deciding on things
Eleanor in S1 (I think?) mentioned that Chidi is suprisingly jacked, so it was nice to see that become true.
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PaperLuigi44My amazement is at maximum capacity.Registered Userregular
Alright alright alright, that episode was fantastic. I don't know how long their current objective is going to last, but damn if it isn't an exciting one.
I also super appreciate that while Eleanor and Chidi freaked out, Tahani and Jason took a much more altruistic look at their seemingly hopeless fate.
Finally, that manifesto definitely seems to be set-up for The Medium Place. We all know that this show has defied expectations constantly, but I really hope that's what we get in the end.
I will use this as proof that they aren't in an alternate timeline and this is merely another simulation by the Judge in this TED talk I will-
that's not the damning detail, it's this:
there is no way an australian supermarket would bar shirtless shoppers, it would exclude 30% of their customer base
Her exclamation that more guys should be bi was also pretty good, because it does seem like close to 100% of bisexual representation in media is female.
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This episode was too short
Glad it's still moving at a clip
Michael botching the sequence of his librarian bit and trying to cover was *chef kiss*
A lot of the social parody stuff has always felt a little cornball and hackneyed, but it was layered in with a bunch of other stuff, and usually shwon through the lens of beings that don't quite understand humanity. Now that they're in the real world they're having to lean on that stuff a lot more heavily, and there's never any question about whether or not you're supposed to just take the more cartoonish stuff at face value. I'm still enjoying the show but I'm groaning more than I wish I was.
In fairness season 2 is a tough act to follow. Especially its premiere. I'm still enjoying this, it's just not regularly blowing me away like the show has done in the past. But it's still early in the season so it's got plenty of time to get there again
One small touch I did like was Jason giving everyone an Autobot nickname except Trevor, who he called Megatron. Just intuitively knows that he's evil
http://www.audioentropy.com/
This after another episode of me not even questioning that she’s meant to be British
As for the future of the show, I'm gearing up for the next episode to be the season 9 finale at this rate before something else happens, but I trust the creators with wherever they take it.
http://www.audioentropy.com/
Trevor Stinks! -Janet
And order the signature drink.
Also, I love a good Manifest Destiny joke.
I dont know theres a lot of Koala pictures everywhere. Seems legit
still a little silly at points in ways that seemed a bit forced but it was mostly just fun and set things up to go in a real exciting direction
http://www.audioentropy.com/
She is so great and perfect, I'm honestly wondering if
That said, I could see them finding the point tallies in Accounting and she's still in the negative, because of how messed up the point system is.
I'm not particularly engaged with this season's premise, I was way more interested in Michael when he was either an asshole or an asshole pretending to be a dork, and now the show just kinda seems like wheelspinning now
I don't really feel much of a progression with the characters anymore and the characters that HAVE progressed have progressed in ways that make them less interesting
It feels like they've run out of road on the show's premise
The show's surprised me enough that I'm willing to see where it's going, even though I can very easily see feeling the way you do in retrospect depending on how this season goes
Luckily the season 2 finale works fairly well as like, an ambiguous, open-ended but hopeful ending, so if the worst case scenario happens you can just kinda pretend it ends there
http://www.audioentropy.com/
Steam
Which has to feel double bad for him, because Larry.
Seconded
I also super appreciate that while Eleanor and Chidi freaked out, Tahani and Jason took a much more altruistic look at their seemingly hopeless fate.
Finally, that manifesto definitely seems to be set-up for The Medium Place. We all know that this show has defied expectations constantly, but I really hope that's what we get in the end.
I will use this as proof that they aren't in an alternate timeline and this is merely another simulation by the Judge in this TED talk I will-
Satans..... hints.....
His Australian Peep purchasing knowledge is suspect at best.
You have failed this city
or maybe you haven't
Coran Attack!
that's not the damning detail, it's this:
there is no way an australian supermarket would bar shirtless shoppers, it would exclude 30% of their customer base
Also, "Bing!"
ALSO
!!!!
Well we already saw that one scenario previous season.