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naoko-world · 1 year

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The good place final review

Last Saturday the wonderful @thecrazyashley-blog casually mentioned The good place in my DMs, telling me I may definitely love it, and she was so right! I literally couldn't stop, I started to check it out a bit on Saturday, started season 2 on Sunday, and finished it today Thursday (at least at the moment I’m writing that)!

Synopsis:

After her death, Eleanor is sent to the good place...But by mistake. And it's up to Chidi, the only one who knows it, to save her from being sent to the bad place.

Of course, a lot of spoilers incoming!

Overturning the cliches:

I love how I expected a lot of things that never were revealed true. Like I feel I've often been taken for an idiot! And the first revelation to make me feel that way is the Taiwanese monk being actually Jason Mendoza, a man from Jacksonville, FL, of Philippines origin who did robberies on earth with his dad and his best friend.

Another one of them is the judge actually being not so sensible and all-knowing and more like a stubborn, hard to convince, series addict.

Also how you expect things like the characters having their life improved when they're send back to earth to actually become way worse. Or worse: Trevor who doesn't stay long in the end when you expected him to be a pain in the ass for many episodes.

And, of course, the mass of revelations like how they're actually all in the bad place, or how the bad place didn't do anything bad that would have sent everyone to the bad place.

I feel like an idiot but I love it lol!

The characters:

Now I'll be talking about the characters!

I love how they're all so different and somehow so perfect for each other to improve.

As some examples: Chidi needed Jason to learn how to be more spontaneous, Tahani needed Eleanor to become more humble, and Eleanor needed Tahani to trust people more.

My favorite character is Tahani because she's like an incredible woman who was doing good deeds on earth like donating to charity, but whose only motivation was to be more popular than her sister Kamila. What I find the most meaningful regarding her problem is that her jealousy literally killed her! She was so driven by it that she pulled a statue of Kamila toward her, which crushed her to death in front of a whole crowd.

But then, she realized what the real problem was: the pressure her parents put on both of them, and Kamila was also suffering from it!

And the four main human characters are living about the same thing through the 4 seasons for their own problems.

I love Michael & Janet’s too, how they are slowly becoming more human, literally for Michael.

The main villain is pretty neat too, he has a kind of evil in him he can't even control but makes him so interesting.

The philosophy in the series:

The heart of the series is the philosophy. To save Eleanor, then Jason, then Tahani, then Michael, then a bit everyone, Chidi is using philosophy as a way to make you think about the concepts of good and bad.

Like it could have been made in a boring way, so we would feel we're in a classroom instead of watching a comedic series, but it actually blends perfectly with the tone of the series! It's so fun to watch Chidi move before his board and explain the concept to his students.

I love too how it shows how useful, but also how complicated it can be!

I'll give the trolley problem as an example! First, the series talks about the base: a group of people on a railroad, a single one on another. Then, the single person is someone we know. Then, it's about who to save between patients in an hospital, to end with how to tell the family they're dead and why. It's not that obvious to understand the good choices to make to be a good person in these cases.

Life is complicated:

But they're even more complicated nowadays, and we start to understand it from season 3, when the four humans are sent back to earth to prove they could have changed there too.

But a lot of disappointment ensue. When acting for good causes, Eleanor gets in exchange a miserable life, Chidi learns that eating a muffin he loves will participate in children's work and it makes him hesitate on everything again, Tahani is living for fame again while she tried to live a more humble life, and Jason lost too many dances competitions not to finally give up on earning an honest life.

That aspect though is perfectly summarized when talking to the judge of the afterlife afterwards: if you want to buy a tomato it's very complicated not to buy a tomato that'll cost you points because of some consequences it'll provoke, even with the access to Internet. The judge tried, and when looking for a tomato exactly like she wanted she found porn.

Even Dough Forcett! That man found out about the reality of the afterlife and got so obsessed by it he lived a miserable life! Even he will not be able to reach the good place!

And that's true! Why the afterlife will need to change, and I love how they changed it! In the bad place...And in the good place too. It was a surprise to discover what actually happens there, but actually pretty logical.

The end:

Then you have the end of the series: how do we resolve these issues?

Season 4 is basically about these questions, and the answers are so satisfying! Like eating chocolate after a bad day (or after the end of a series that made you cry...)! I love too how they convince the judge, but then the judge wants to reboot humanity so they must find another solution very quickly.

Then they go the The good place and there people basically became zombies because they just live their eternal life because they don't have any other choice.

But what is even more satisfying is each main character's fate! I won't spoil them there just in case but it was so perfect for them, especially Tahani! I mean, she was made for this fate!

Also I think Chidi and Eleanor's is what made me cry too...Though I'm so happy they ended up as a happy couple! They're the best couple I love them.

If I had to talk about every aspect of that series that review would go way too long! So I'll end it there, and with a promise to myself I'll watch it again because it's totally worth it!

#the good place #the good place review #series review #chidi anagonye #eleanor shellstrop #jason mendoza #tahani al jamil #I love tahani #michael the good place #janet the good place #netflix series #netflix #chidi x eleanor #Sorry I HAD to tag that #I LOVE THEM #BEST COUPLE

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softdeb · 7 days

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good good good x

#wow wow wow #hacks hbo #taking her place at DEB'S SIDE BECAUSE SHE LOVES HER SO MUCH #too many people (not us but like actual critics and reviewers) hung up on ava and the student becomes the master #it's like yes but in service of the relationship!!!! to stay together!!!! because they're good together!!!!

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occidentaltourist · 5 months

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bbc: Some sweet #Silvacre content for your FYP ❤️

#silvacre #suranne jones #rose leslie #vigil #the bbc making a silvacre fan edit was a pleasant surprise :)#i saw the streaming numbers for vigil 2 were very good (understatement)#which makes an s3 at least a possibility #if they can write a story suranne and rose would sign on for #i'm counting on what suranne said that the continuation of the love story is a big part of what brought her back #the series does a good job creating dramatic tension and conflict within a happy relationship that doesn't involve cheating or one dying #if they do a 3rd season i hope that continues #i mean the series started with amy in the worst possible place emotionally and psychologically so surely they wouldn't go there again #s2 with its wlw mlm solidarity/parallel storyline and giving us more insight into amy and how far she's come since s1 #on top of all the other things i liked this season (which i enjoyed quite a bit in addition to the ship)#at heart it's very critical of the british government and military/war machine and some reviews seem to have missed that part #anyway i'm pleased as punch that a prestige bbc drama has two women in love at its center and a lead as compelling as amy #and that it's pulling in the numbers even without the submarine and claustrophobia (admittedly a cool premise)#keep making the fanvids bbc social media team we appreciate you #queue

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gnnosis · 11 months

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it’s a sad song. but we sing it anyway.

[ the anthropocene reviewed, animated / “permanent,” the milk carton kids / richard siken / the good place 4x12 / the raven king, maggie stiefvater / hadestown (2017) / ted lasso 3x12 / elsa beskow / “no complaints,” noah kahan / angels in america ]

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drawkivi · 5 months

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the 9 hour video about sam & cat by quinton reviews woke up my weird nostalgia for this show

#sam & cat #sam puckett #cat valentine #samantha puckett #icarly #victorious #ariana grande #quinton reviews #sat #pucketine #my art #this show takes a pretty big place in my heart for some reason #but quintons essays really changed my perspective on these characters #yeah they are not good people and theyre so fucking toxic to each other #but yeah fanart

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sangrefae · 4 months

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i said this on twitter already but like. literally every single thing i've seen about h*zbin h*tel is convincing me more and more that they're trying to do what the good place already did but like. A billion times worse

#hazbin hotel critical #chattering #I read the one review going around in the past few days #and the entire redeeming people to go to heaven #I'm just like. the good place already did that #it already did that and so much better than this slop

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aroaessidhe · 1 month

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2024 reads / storygraph

Compound Fracture

YA thriller set in rural West Virginia

follows an autistic trans boy who survives being almost killed by the Sheriff’s son after a party, and accidentally kills one of the boys who hurt him when he tries to get back at him

and is pulled head-first back into the 100 year old feud between his & the sheriff’s families, that began when his great-great grandfather was executed after inciting a miner’s rebellion, the grandfather whose ghost has started to haunt him

community & family & socialist revolution

aro-questioning MC

arc from netgalley, out september 3

#Compound Fracture #aroaessidhe 2024 reads #aromantic books #andrew joseph white did it again……#pretty fast paced and gripping! I barely put it down.#Definitely the primal scream of rage the author described it as. Pretty brutal in places. I enjoyed it a lot.#it’s definitely less sff than his other books - the ghostly element is almost subtle - but that worked for me.#I was especially excited for this one because I heard the MC is aromantic and I’m so happy about it I think that was done well #certainly with more nuance and depth than I’ve come to expect from a lot of books; despite the fact that it’s not a major focus #(and yknow takes place over a couple weeks and is still in the questioning stage other than maybe the epilogue)#It’s tackling some very large complex things politically and is very unsubtle and somewhat neat about it #- and I think some aspects could have used more nuance/elaboration? but also maybe that’s just not possible to fit in one little book #the handful of negative reviews I can find I guess I see where they're coming from lol #but yknow. lots of good regardless #and also. appreciation moment for evangeline gallagher's cover art

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sexiestpodcastcharacter · 1 month

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Who is the Best Fiction Podcast Artificial Intelligence?

After receiving 57 submissions for 36 characters from 30 podcasts, a few disqualifications, and one preliminary poll, we have our bracket!

Bonus Poll: Which semi-sentient automobile is sexier? (The Ruby Seven vs Odyssey-San) (Ends May 10th.)

Round 1

Hera (Wolf 359) vs Flamingo Chris (Eidolon Playtest: Eidolon ROCK)

Proxy (StarTripper!!) vs ANDI (Marsfall)

Blue Sky A.K.A GORD (Red Valley) vs Tumnus (Moonbase Theta, Out)

Chester (The Magnus Protocol) vs Echo (Khôra Podcast)

SAYER (SAYER) vs Jet (Under the Electric Stars)

Keychain A.K.A. Otto (Not Another D&D Podcast: Trinyvale) vs Fern (inc: The Podcast)

The Divine, Arbitrage (Friends at the Table: The Divine Cycle) vs Dax (We Fix Space Junk)

Ship (ROGUEMAKER) vs QWERTY (Trial and Error)

The Audio Tour Guide (The Mistholme Museum of Mystery, Morbidity, and Mortality) vs Fan (Red Odyssey)

Imogen (Stellar Firma) vs MORIS (Inkwyrm)

SPEAKER (SAYER) vs Potential Parent A.K.A. Ai (Monstrous Agonies)

Sergey Ushanka (The Magnus Archives) vs Minerva (Tales From The Fringes of Reality)

Eris (Wolf 359) vs Ellis (Tartarus)

Alexandrite (Not Another D&D Podcast: Campaign 3) vs Seth (Lost Terminal)

Larry (Friends at the Table: COUNTER/Weight) vs Sec (The Vesta Clinic)

Mr. Ceiling (Rusty Quill Gaming) vs Dad (Deviser)

#AI Bracket #AI Bracket Round 1 #Podcasts #Audio Drama #Tumblr Tournaments #Tumblr Bracket #Tumblr Polls #AI #Artificial Intelligence #I am so sorry to Flamingo Chris. When it came down to the final four podcasts I felt like I hadn't heard of I looked them up on Podchaser #and Eidolon Playtest had zero reviews so you were seeded in last place.#Previous brackets didn't fill up and had joke submissions so I could seed the jokes and my own choices into the last few places.#Good luck Flamingo Chris. You have a good name.

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mossy-rot · 5 months

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reading about autistic meltdowns is crazy. in retrospect maybe that time i ended up sobbing self isolating and lashing out at people because I couldn't figure out how to set up my laptop the same way it had been before might've been because of The Autism

#i cannot deal with changes to things I deal with regularly #i need to have my phone and comp exactly the same lest I Suffer bc i use them every day #also perhaps i would get so upset over my mom cleaning my room (although being a nice gesture) is because she would move shit to places-#i didn't know and messed up the system i had #also fuckin. executive dysfunction. that's some shit isn't it #i had to move to a new desk early in my job to run a different room and the desk setup was different and I Was Struggling A Bit #also people trying to calm me down during meltdowns is significantly worse and i read a bit that was like.#'trying to interject into the meltdown may cause additional sensory overload. it's most safe to let the person self-regulate.' well shit #that's about right huh #autistic burnout also seemed very familiar and its a little disturbing just how close everything hits #anyways im probably autistic. good night #mossy's rambles #text post #luci's rambles #autism #neurodivergent #autistic things #autistic adult #autistic experiences #if anyone would like to add to the pile and tell me im autistic feel free ig. ive already been peer reviewed

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thistransient · 8 months

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It could just be that I hadn't eaten anything but a banana all day since breakfast, but this was a transcendental ramen

#i asked the hostel owner where to get dinner and then promptly forgot his directions #this place had good reviews and was close by #the proprietor saw me lurking anxiously outside the door and said Don't be scared! We have seats!#which in any other circumstance would cause me to flee except I'd already decided to eat there and WAS scared of no seats #i am picky about soups and this broth was amazing #ramen #Japanese food #noodles #tokyo

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hood-ex · 6 months

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Love when my students show me their English homework and ask for help, and I just give them the answers because it's late and they need to be in bed instead of worrying about finishing their homework.

#i also had a mom message me this morning asking me if i can review her son's english speech about architecture in shanghai #and if i could rewrite the sentences into simpler english words so her son could understand/memorize it better #and i was like hell yeah send it over lmao #i just finished it actually #and now i know all about an interesting landmark in shanghai #kinda want to go there now--but at the same time--it used to be a slaughterhouse #so i feel like it would not feel like a good place energetically

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gnnosis · 2 years

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on humanity

[ the good place, 4x06 / “the anthropocene reviewed: humanity’s temporal range,” john green / kids mimic ‘the dance’ / march 14th, 2020, new york times / “blue lily, lily blue,” maggie stievater / “mehfil/party,” salman toor ]

#web weaving #on humanity #on peoplehood #the good place #michael schur #the anthropocene reviewed #john green #matisse the dance #the dance #matisse #blue lily lily blue #bllb #the raven cycle #the dreamer trilogy #adam parrish #maggie stiefvater #salman toor #my post

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cosmic-kaden · 17 hours

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There, sorted out all my clothes and only keeping enough out for the next 19 days- I'm already exhausted and I still have to do laundry x.x Maybe I'll do it tomorrow morning.

#Laundry is stressful for me lol and right now I have stress on top of stress (Moving + Court in the same month)#I am going later to a friends place to review my recallings of the first time I reported to the police and the last time when I had to go t #the hospital :/ I really dont want to but I know those two jackasses and their lawyers are gonna be all over me trying to cross examine and #shit so I want to be as prepared as I possibly can be and its good if I remember specific dates- I want to be as thorough as possible #I want a big hug from one of my f/os T_T I'm stressed and I'm tired. This month sucks so much lol #venting.tw #tw vent

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savebylou · 9 days

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COMO FUE????? 😭😭😭😭😭

Hola Maria!!! I had been postponing answering this because I still think I can't do justice of describing how was my show but I will try at least write something.

It was the most amazing show I had been a part of. I had commented this before but I never had been to a show where the artist and music has mean so much to me until this one.

All the magic I had seen on livestreams and videos I got the opportunity to live it in real life and was everything I hope for and so much more.

Louis was amazing really, for the livestream look like he was still sick but during the show I really couldn't tell, he was so energetic and his voice sounded so good and the band was so amazing, what they had created for this last 2 tours is something so unique. I'm so grateful we have the Louis Tomlinson: Live album, I had been listening non stop after my show because I already miss what I live on my show.

I already talk about the fan projects here, so I would not talk about that here.

I think it was just so beautiful to whitness how happy Louis was and how he felt the love from the fans in México, that makes me really proud. He was so chatty & wanted to talk a lot and I love that. I really could listen talk for hours.

I already said it but I will said it again the livestream doesn't do justice to capture how loud the crowd was all the time, really in each songs we were singing so loud and during breaks singing Louis name or the Louis hermano ya eres mexicano (Louis, brother you are mexican/already mexican).

I only watch from the screens so I didn't know how amazing the show look and how many people we were there. I'm so glad that with the livestream and the fan projects were able to show how big the crowd was and I also could see how amazing Louis and the band were in close ups.

I still need a few days to write my full recap but overall it make me really proud of Louis and what he has achieve, it was truly a celebration of his journey and what he and fans all around the world have created. I will never forget this show.

Espero tengas un lindo día. Un abrazo.

#maria :)#i wrote it in english so more people could understand it #i really don't know if this is a good answer i'm still all over the place #ask #fitft mexico city #fitft fan review #my show #lovely mutuals #louis tomlinson

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porto-rosso · 1 month

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brother where is the charles appreciation

#so dark out here #umm dead boy detectives review here we go! first two episodes were definitely the worst of the series. both are kinda weirdly paced and #the exposition is done poorly in places. overall from episode 3 onwards it gets much much better with pacing and show dont tell #do not understand for the life of me why they made crystal palace american #kassius nelson (<- crystals actress) was very good in places and kinda ehhh in others and im 90% the issue for most of the latter moments #was just that her american accent is not great. sorry they did that to you queen #dialogue was a bit dodge sometimes as well #stuff i liked now! the plot felt quite solid and i really enjoyed the monster of the week approach i think thats the perfect way to #do a dbd adaptation. was a bit annoyed they immediately went to america but port townsend was an interesting setting and all the #supernatural elements/characters fit in nicely #major props cos i feel like the show mostly pulled off the emotionally charged moments without getting corny and the dialogue was generally #good in those moments #particularly charles/crystals heart to heart in ep. 3 and like the entirety of episode 7 (<- ep 7 was brilliant)#overall very fun watch and i feel that the more irritating typical YA show garb was at least a bit offset by them being willing to get #quite dark in places #bit sad people are mostly posting about edwin becos charles was my favourite. has been entertaining watching americans scramble around #the cultural differences in the show #shaking my inbox like a maraca. if anyone wants to talk at me abt the show i will love you forever #.log

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peterlorres21stcentury · 1 month

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After the sort of day I had, which included about seven hours of meetings just to learn the process of reviewing a grants budget in microscopic detail, I have never felt more sympathetic to young Peter Lorre working his crushing bank job by day just to live for the Vienna stage at night. Such is a long held artistic tradition (that must be destroyed).

#I hate budgets #scratch that I might actually be good at budgets if only I didn't have to collaborate with two other people on the review #holy fuck they won't even tell me where all the documents are kept #they keep everything in four godawful email chains (that they refuse to share with me)#this place is in a state I tell you #peter lorre #time to eat and then live a few brief hours creating fantasy

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