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shadowkat1. Had several bad weeks in a row so scheduled a massage with my reflexologist/massage therapist...
between the bad back, vertigo, hip, leg cramp, and stress...
I'm basically worried about everything. So ...meditated, did yoga, watched soap opera, had Udi's gluten free pizza, watercress/radish/cucumber salad, vodka tonic, Rittersport coconut filled milk chocolate, and watched The Good Place.
The Good Place is my favorite show on at the moment, and I've joined a FB discussion group to talk about it.
Me: You should watch the Good Place, it's a great satire on metaphysics and philosophy.
Friend: I'm not sure I can handle a satire on metaphysics and philosophy.
Me: I'm admittedly a nerd.
2. The Good Place - Season 2 -- The All Knowing Burrito
Eh, impossible to discuss without spoilers.
I found it hilarious in places. It and Lucifer are the only television series that consistently make me laugh out loud and hard.
I'm playing with it on FB, because no one on my flist appears to be really into it. So not sure it's worth talking about here?
This season is amazing...not a bad episode in the lot. Almost want to buy the DVDs so I can re-watch, although also possible via streaming.
And this episode was a lovely palate cleanser -- it got rid of all of the crap that's been bugging me all day long.
Best lines?
* Jason: A Burrito let's eat it!
Chidi: Wait a minute the burrito might be a test...
Eleanor: It's probably just a burrito -
Jason: So do we share it? Is that the test?
Eleanor: No, wait -- Chidi might be right. It could be the judge. I've seen stranger things since I've been here.
Tahani: It's not the Judge. Judges wear long silky robes and powdered whigs
Eleanor: All Knowing Burrito, we've come here to-
Judge pops up in long silkly black robes: No, it's just a burrito. I'm the judge.
* Shawn sentences Michael to an eternity in a bare room with just New Yorker magazines.
Michael: But I don't read the New Yorker.
Shawn: And they will keep coming.. Bwhahaha.
[Not to worry, Janet frees him. And leaves Shawn locked in the room with the New Yorkers.]
I love this. My father has a stack of unread New Yorkers. It's like you mean to read them, and never quite do, and they keep coming. He cancelled his subscription, but yet they continue.
* Chidi: I failed?
Judge Jen: You took 82 minutes to choose a hat.
Chidi: But at least I chose the right hat.
Judge Jen: There is no right or wrong hat. They are just hats!
* Jason: So we can just take a nap on our way back, get a good rest, and then come back her and try again tomorrow.
Eleanor: Jason, I love that you only appear get 20% of what is going on.
Jason: Thank you.
Hee Hee.
Also the did the door leads to the same room gag rather well -- classic farce.
Loved the tests...the guys tests were rather simplestic -- Chidi had to choose between hats, Jason resist his impulse to play video games. While Tahani and Eleanor had the more ethical and difficult tasks...Tahani resist her impulse to know what people were saying about her, and Eleanor to choose to not save her self over her friends.
One seemingly petty/mundane, the other much more weighty.
There's so much to this series.
I don't see myself writing meta on the series, don't have the head space. So FB works better.
between the bad back, vertigo, hip, leg cramp, and stress...
I'm basically worried about everything. So ...meditated, did yoga, watched soap opera, had Udi's gluten free pizza, watercress/radish/cucumber salad, vodka tonic, Rittersport coconut filled milk chocolate, and watched The Good Place.
The Good Place is my favorite show on at the moment, and I've joined a FB discussion group to talk about it.
Me: You should watch the Good Place, it's a great satire on metaphysics and philosophy.
Friend: I'm not sure I can handle a satire on metaphysics and philosophy.
Me: I'm admittedly a nerd.
2. The Good Place - Season 2 -- The All Knowing Burrito
Eh, impossible to discuss without spoilers.
I found it hilarious in places. It and Lucifer are the only television series that consistently make me laugh out loud and hard.
I'm playing with it on FB, because no one on my flist appears to be really into it. So not sure it's worth talking about here?
This season is amazing...not a bad episode in the lot. Almost want to buy the DVDs so I can re-watch, although also possible via streaming.
And this episode was a lovely palate cleanser -- it got rid of all of the crap that's been bugging me all day long.
Best lines?
* Jason: A Burrito let's eat it!
Chidi: Wait a minute the burrito might be a test...
Eleanor: It's probably just a burrito -
Jason: So do we share it? Is that the test?
Eleanor: No, wait -- Chidi might be right. It could be the judge. I've seen stranger things since I've been here.
Tahani: It's not the Judge. Judges wear long silky robes and powdered whigs
Eleanor: All Knowing Burrito, we've come here to-
Judge pops up in long silkly black robes: No, it's just a burrito. I'm the judge.
* Shawn sentences Michael to an eternity in a bare room with just New Yorker magazines.
Michael: But I don't read the New Yorker.
Shawn: And they will keep coming.. Bwhahaha.
[Not to worry, Janet frees him. And leaves Shawn locked in the room with the New Yorkers.]
I love this. My father has a stack of unread New Yorkers. It's like you mean to read them, and never quite do, and they keep coming. He cancelled his subscription, but yet they continue.
* Chidi: I failed?
Judge Jen: You took 82 minutes to choose a hat.
Chidi: But at least I chose the right hat.
Judge Jen: There is no right or wrong hat. They are just hats!
* Jason: So we can just take a nap on our way back, get a good rest, and then come back her and try again tomorrow.
Eleanor: Jason, I love that you only appear get 20% of what is going on.
Jason: Thank you.
Hee Hee.
Also the did the door leads to the same room gag rather well -- classic farce.
Loved the tests...the guys tests were rather simplestic -- Chidi had to choose between hats, Jason resist his impulse to play video games. While Tahani and Eleanor had the more ethical and difficult tasks...Tahani resist her impulse to know what people were saying about her, and Eleanor to choose to not save her self over her friends.
One seemingly petty/mundane, the other much more weighty.
There's so much to this series.
I don't see myself writing meta on the series, don't have the head space. So FB works better.
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Date: 2018-01-29 09:57 pm (UTC)He cancelled his subscription, but yet they continue.
*snort* And yet it's a mystery why print publications are struggling
financially...
Judge Jen: There is no right or wrong hat. They are just hats!
Yes, that bit made me laugh too. And good on Eleanor to realize she was with fake Chidi. That's true about the women's versus the men's tests.
I loved the reveal that Bad Janet was actually Good Janet becoming successful at subterfuge! Speaking of, I just posted some recs here https://recs.dreamwidth.org/495042.html which include a vid focused on Janet.
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Date: 2018-01-30 02:48 am (UTC)I think the show takes a while to grab some people. It took a while to grab me, I didn't appreciate it fully until I saw the spoiler and went back to rewatch. Because in S1, it looks like a run-of-a-mill satirical show about heaven. With Eleanor and Jason trying to escape hell.
But, it's actually a lot more than that. Reminds me of Buffy in a way, you don't realize what's going on with it, until you stay with it for a bit. It's a show that rewards the viewer who sticks it out.
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Date: 2018-01-31 01:29 am (UTC)I agree about S1. The friend who's just started watching is a few episodes in and still only sees it as a comedy.
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Date: 2018-01-31 03:24 am (UTC)