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[nellerie]

btw, I just started watching The Good Place and it's so forking good??? OMG please talk to me about it 

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[cathyw]

omgyes. we started watching it a few weeks ago and we're almost caught up... I don't want to say too much because spoilers though.

[nellerie]

I JUST FINISHED SEASON 1 AND AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH?????
I mean, I DID have my suspicions but I really just chalked it up to Michael being an incompetent snooze and the hot demnon who wanted to bang everyone (don't know his name) being a ... bad demon but WOAH. I AM SO .... there aren't even words for it!!!!!

[cathyw]

I was so ticked at my husband - he called it sometime in the first two or three episodes. But he also called the twist in Sixth Sense almost immediately too; it seems to be his superpower.

[nellerie]

HOW did he call it tho?? I kind of thought it was weird that a) big sexy demon whose name I don't know just revealed the "real Eleanor" AFTER the train was stopped and also b) that "real Eleanor" came barging in trying to sacrifice herself in the last episode because... how the fuck would she have known????? It wasn't like broadcast everywhere?!
I guess what really should have ticket anyone off was the fact that all these good people were just like "yay life in heaven" instead of "holy fuck all these poor souls who get tortured for eternity"... like even Chidi didn't think about it and there are plenty of philosophers out there thinking about this kind of thing.

I also wonder how especially Tahani was tortured (except by each other) - we know that Eleanor was tortured by the fact that everyone was better than her, Chidi was faced with many decisions that were absolutely impossible for him to decide, and Jason was forced to still not be able his true self. But Tahani? Maybe the fact that, like in real life, no matter how perfect she tried to be it still wasn't enough?

[cathyw]

I DON'T KNOW HOW HE DOES IT, other than having a vague sense of "what would be the most awesome plot twist they could have without just throwing their narrative structure out the window." He's magic.

...and then the show made a way to throw its narrative structure out the window within the confines of its narrative structure, what even is this show.

And Tahani - I'm thinking back to the scene where she checked out the points list and was very disappointed that she wasn't on top? her parties were routinely ruined? and also having Jason as her soulmate must have been excruciating; initially he wouldn't talk while she is a chatterbox, and then he turned out to be... him.

[cathyw]

(I asked Hubby what made him suspect, and he said it was basically Michael? he was a little too sickly-sweet to Eleanor while at the same time kind of mean to Chidi and Tahani? Daughter also thought it was too much of a coincidence that there were two people who supposedly slipped through the cracks of a foolproof system.)