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shadowkat1. Good Place S4 Teasers...
Eh...decidedly mixed feelings regarding this.
* 1. It will look like Season 1, but feel different: The frozen yogurt shop is back and so many other things we loved about the early episodes The Good Place. But with the humans actually running the experiment, it's not going to feel exactly like Season 1.
"In a way we are [returning to Season 1] by design but there are some key differences. In this case, there's only one person who won't remember what is going on," he said. "There's a lot of different power dynamics and stuff. The idea is always to change everything and somehow still do the same show that everyone has been watching."
2. There's a lot of good romance stuff coming up: The premise of The Good Place is insane, but fans have also really been drawn in by the grounded relationships that have formed between the characters. Schur says that those relationships are also his favorite part about writing the show, so we'll be digging more into that in Season 4.
"It's equally split between the romantic stories and the plot. ...What's going to happen to all of humanity is a pretty good question to be asking for plot," Schur teased. "I really like the romances between Eleanor and Chidi and Janet and Jason. I think it's probably an even split."
3. There will be more insanity for Janet: Season 1 gave us rebooted Janet (D'Arcy Carden). Season 2 gave us Janet and Michael (Ted Danson) as friends and Season 3 gave us Janet playing every person in her void. Basically, Janet is the best and the producers are already working on ways to let Carden steal the spotlight even more next season.
"We have a few things. I don't know if we'll ever achieve anything that's bigger than her literally playing every character in the show, but the most fun part of writing for an actor like D'Arcy Carden is that the world is your oyster. You get dream up insane scenarios and we have a couple that are going to be pretty fun," he said.
4. Eleanor's torture person is still on the way: If Chidi having his memory wiped isn't enough, Schur confirmed that wasn't what the Bad Place chose to torture Eleanor with, so she'll have her own ghost from the real world to deal with, to be revealed in the new season.
"The idea is that the Bad Place chose people who were specifically meant to smart bomb the four main humans. In one case, Tahani didn't know that guy John at all. She'd never met him, but he was there to torture her. In Chidi's case, Simone was actually someone that he knew," Schur explained. "Eleanor has another one on the way."
This could be really interesting or annoying. But it is intriguing in its own way.
So 1 and 4, interesting. 2 and 3 -- ugh.
I really wish the show would do more along the lines of S2, and less along the lines of S1 -- I did not like S1 and S3 that much. But I LOVED S2.
2. Read THIS story about Lorena Bobbit Gallow this morning.
And what struck me about the article was:
The documentary mostly unfolds in 1993, the dawn of Court TV and a proliferation of gossipy daytime talk shows. In Rofé and Peele’s hands, the 24-hour news cycle becomes a voracious, multiheaded monster that eventually engulfs everything. “There is a third character to this story besides Lorena and John and that is us, society, and what we did with the information we had available to us,” Peele said.
The rest of it is pretty triggering, so you may not want to read. But that statement I found interesting and important. I think it's what fascinated Jordan Peele.
Been thinking about how we create our own narratives and often our narratives or the one's we've created aren't real.
3. US Midwest Freezes While Australia Burns, the Age of Weather Extremes
I was telling a co-worker yesterday that I prefer moderate temperatures and climates. Actually I prefer moderate everything -- which is why I'm struggling at the moment. Because everything has gone "extreme".
Although the weather is wonky. According to the news the high today is 16, next Thursday, it will be 56 and raining. This makes it very hard to put clothes away or know what to wear. Also hard on the sinuses.
OTOH, I prefer this to several weeks of frigid temps. So...no complaints.
Cousin told me it is not -60 in Chicago as the stupid media is telling you, but actually -25. It was -30. And today the windchill will go away, so it may get warm enough for her to go across the street and pick up groceries. By warm enough, she meant above 0.
Eh...decidedly mixed feelings regarding this.
* 1. It will look like Season 1, but feel different: The frozen yogurt shop is back and so many other things we loved about the early episodes The Good Place. But with the humans actually running the experiment, it's not going to feel exactly like Season 1.
"In a way we are [returning to Season 1] by design but there are some key differences. In this case, there's only one person who won't remember what is going on," he said. "There's a lot of different power dynamics and stuff. The idea is always to change everything and somehow still do the same show that everyone has been watching."
2. There's a lot of good romance stuff coming up: The premise of The Good Place is insane, but fans have also really been drawn in by the grounded relationships that have formed between the characters. Schur says that those relationships are also his favorite part about writing the show, so we'll be digging more into that in Season 4.
"It's equally split between the romantic stories and the plot. ...What's going to happen to all of humanity is a pretty good question to be asking for plot," Schur teased. "I really like the romances between Eleanor and Chidi and Janet and Jason. I think it's probably an even split."
3. There will be more insanity for Janet: Season 1 gave us rebooted Janet (D'Arcy Carden). Season 2 gave us Janet and Michael (Ted Danson) as friends and Season 3 gave us Janet playing every person in her void. Basically, Janet is the best and the producers are already working on ways to let Carden steal the spotlight even more next season.
"We have a few things. I don't know if we'll ever achieve anything that's bigger than her literally playing every character in the show, but the most fun part of writing for an actor like D'Arcy Carden is that the world is your oyster. You get dream up insane scenarios and we have a couple that are going to be pretty fun," he said.
4. Eleanor's torture person is still on the way: If Chidi having his memory wiped isn't enough, Schur confirmed that wasn't what the Bad Place chose to torture Eleanor with, so she'll have her own ghost from the real world to deal with, to be revealed in the new season.
"The idea is that the Bad Place chose people who were specifically meant to smart bomb the four main humans. In one case, Tahani didn't know that guy John at all. She'd never met him, but he was there to torture her. In Chidi's case, Simone was actually someone that he knew," Schur explained. "Eleanor has another one on the way."
This could be really interesting or annoying. But it is intriguing in its own way.
So 1 and 4, interesting. 2 and 3 -- ugh.
I really wish the show would do more along the lines of S2, and less along the lines of S1 -- I did not like S1 and S3 that much. But I LOVED S2.
2. Read THIS story about Lorena Bobbit Gallow this morning.
And what struck me about the article was:
The documentary mostly unfolds in 1993, the dawn of Court TV and a proliferation of gossipy daytime talk shows. In Rofé and Peele’s hands, the 24-hour news cycle becomes a voracious, multiheaded monster that eventually engulfs everything. “There is a third character to this story besides Lorena and John and that is us, society, and what we did with the information we had available to us,” Peele said.
The rest of it is pretty triggering, so you may not want to read. But that statement I found interesting and important. I think it's what fascinated Jordan Peele.
Been thinking about how we create our own narratives and often our narratives or the one's we've created aren't real.
3. US Midwest Freezes While Australia Burns, the Age of Weather Extremes
I was telling a co-worker yesterday that I prefer moderate temperatures and climates. Actually I prefer moderate everything -- which is why I'm struggling at the moment. Because everything has gone "extreme".
Although the weather is wonky. According to the news the high today is 16, next Thursday, it will be 56 and raining. This makes it very hard to put clothes away or know what to wear. Also hard on the sinuses.
OTOH, I prefer this to several weeks of frigid temps. So...no complaints.
Cousin told me it is not -60 in Chicago as the stupid media is telling you, but actually -25. It was -30. And today the windchill will go away, so it may get warm enough for her to go across the street and pick up groceries. By warm enough, she meant above 0.