Time is at an all-time premium.
That doesnt makeThe Good Placeunique on television.
Sometimes it doesnt always work.
I still find last weeksJanet and Michaelto be overstuffed and anticlimactic.
More often than not, however, it does.
On a pure plot level.
There is a lot going on here.
They also, much to Michaels chagrin, cannot just kill the guy.
Thats not ethically sound, as it turns out.
Has anyone ever told you what a drag you are?
Even more impressive though is how its able to draw out real human pathos in the process.
Michael Schur once said thatthe dumb guyis always an archetype that works in comedy.
Sadly, Tahani and Jasons marriage that suddenly, improbably seems like a valid idea gets interrupted anyway.
Michael, Chidi, and Eleanor rush to the ceremony where Janet has been called to officiate the wedding.
Jason is in his Blake Bortles jersey of course.
Michael cant bring himself to do it.
Professor Buzzkill got in my head, he says.
So the unpleasant task falls to Eleanor, as it so often does.
Eleanor tells Janet that the only thing that will make her heartbreak over Jason better is time.
Instead the episode Derek reveals that Derek himself is little more than a painful lesson.
Whats so charming and appealing aboutThe Good Placeis how much it cares about learning.
Also she made Dereks dick and balls wind chimes and thats funny.
Just as pain and heartbreak never fully goes away, neither does love.
Or at least we think that from the perspective of having finite lives on fixed timelines.
Not only that but she has the video evidence to prove it taped over a copy ofCanonball Run II.
Chidi is astonished
Ive not ever been that sure of anything, he says.
I once tried to rent socks.
How did I say that so easily?
I get how you said it, Eleanor responds.
Im a total smoke show.
But how did I say it so easily?
Eleanor says the same thing.
But we know thats not true.
She feels something and she has no idea why.
Lots of us can feel that way sometimes.
Lots of us also dont have videographic evidence from a different life that weve always felt that way though.
Even the demons and robots are getting in on the action.
All in 22-minutes time.
Rating:
4.5 out of 5
