What I found interesting about the S4 premiere of The Good Place is that none of our heroes are conducting themselves well. They're in charge of the greatest psychological experiment in human history (with enormous stakes) and the pressure has brought out their worst.
Eleanor knows she can't hold onto Chidi and successfully run the experiment, but selfishly (if understandably) tries to hold onto him anyway; Michael has all-but checked out, reduced to empty boosterism (has he already been replaced by his Bad Place double?); Janet, our serene not-a-girl miracle worker, is snappish and distracted; and Jason.... Jason! With very, very little prompting from Mindy, he kills Derek!
They're all regressing, and they need to dig much deeper if they're going to hold on to the progress they've made over the past three seasons.
I liked mixed-ish, but so far, the series doesn't match up to the episode that inspired it. "Being Bow-Racial" was a high point for black-ish, and it makes sense that Kenya Barris would want to explore that rich vein of comedy and conflict. But that episode had Tracy Ellis Ross and Beau Bridges carrying it, and the series doesn't have anybody at that level. Let's see how it develops.
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Date: 2019-09-29 04:23 pm (UTC)Eleanor knows she can't hold onto Chidi and successfully run the experiment, but selfishly (if understandably) tries to hold onto him anyway; Michael has all-but checked out, reduced to empty boosterism (has he already been replaced by his Bad Place double?); Janet, our serene not-a-girl miracle worker, is snappish and distracted; and Jason.... Jason! With very, very little prompting from Mindy, he kills Derek!
They're all regressing, and they need to dig much deeper if they're going to hold on to the progress they've made over the past three seasons.
I liked mixed-ish, but so far, the series doesn't match up to the episode that inspired it. "Being Bow-Racial" was a high point for black-ish, and it makes sense that Kenya Barris would want to explore that rich vein of comedy and conflict. But that episode had Tracy Ellis Ross and Beau Bridges carrying it, and the series doesn't have anybody at that level. Let's see how it develops.