Agreed on The Connors. The humor was more subtle, along with the pathos.
One of the other best scenes was the last one... Dan trying to figure out
how to sleep in his bed without his wife. (A very nice reversal of the
first episode of the reboot, where Roseanne check's to see if he's still
breathing.)
And all the jokes landed. Along with the timing, which had been off
previously.
It's an accurate depiction of lower middle class America, and why it's very
hard for most working class and lower middle class Americans to care about
elections or politics.
Agree for the most part on The Good Place, although the moment that
really stuck out for me in the Jeremy Berimy sequence was Chidi asking what
the dot was for or meant. And Michael says it's nothing, absence, and
everything -- which pretty much undoes it for Chidi. It's when he loses it.
The universe, all of it, makes no sense. There's no logic to it. And he
falls into Neiztian nihilism. It's hilarious.
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Date: 2018-10-22 02:57 pm (UTC)Agreed on The Connors. The humor was more subtle, along with the pathos. One of the other best scenes was the last one... Dan trying to figure out how to sleep in his bed without his wife. (A very nice reversal of the first episode of the reboot, where Roseanne check's to see if he's still breathing.) And all the jokes landed. Along with the timing, which had been off previously.
It's an accurate depiction of lower middle class America, and why it's very hard for most working class and lower middle class Americans to care about elections or politics.
Agree for the most part on The Good Place, although the moment that really stuck out for me in the Jeremy Berimy sequence was Chidi asking what the dot was for or meant. And Michael says it's nothing, absence, and everything -- which pretty much undoes it for Chidi. It's when he loses it. The universe, all of it, makes no sense. There's no logic to it. And he falls into Neiztian nihilism. It's hilarious.