On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 7:51 PM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > I have watched the first three episodes now and basically agree with > Kevin; it is not yet as good a sitcom as DYL was a film (though in my book > that is a high bar) but is promising enough to keep checking it out a while > longer. While the premise does sound like DYL, the tone I thought had more > in common with "Last Man on Earth", which is a show I watch and sometimes > enjoy, but keep waiting for it to be as good as it seems like it could be. > > > On Saturday, 24 September 2016, Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Ted Danson as Rip Torn and Kristen Bell as Albert Brooks in a modern day >> Defending Your Life. At least I suspect that was the original pitch for the >> series, but the pilot episode was unique and quirky enough that I'll try to >> catch future episodes. > > Watching it dd not remind me of Defending Your Life, it reminded me of The Prisoner. It is a closed society with quirky architecture and characters, and the viewer so far has the notion that things are not the way they have been explained to be or what the rules really are. I am enjoying three things about the series: it's an inversion of regular contemporary sitcom communications where the dominant type of humor is put down humor. Eleanor (Kristen Bell's character) is nasty and snarky in her flashbacks but realizes that it will only hurt her in The Good Place. An adult discussion of ethics is central to the show and there is real philosophical discussion about what is ethical. I don't know how deep it will go but having the tension of the show revolve around ethics makes for a much better sitcom than twentysomethings in a hip neighborhood in the big city trying to hook up. And Ted Danson is doing a standout performance. He plays the authority figure with the right amount of neurosis and can get downright needy. Danson really brings it off and I hope he raises the performance of the rest of the cast. They don't seem to be on his level.
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