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I promise that one day, I'll resume talking about things that are not The Good Place, but today is not that day.

As of last night, I have finished catching up on all three seasons!! And wow, has it flown by. Someone in the show's subreddit compared its pace to that of Dollhouse, and that is definitely fair. Massive plotlines are rushing past in like, an episode or two. It's intense. And despite that the show manages to consistently be so funny!

So, clearly I was off-base in some of my speculation last time, but now I've caught up on the whole show I wanted to just write a little more about it.

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So that's that. And now I'll have to wait probably nine or ten months or something before there are any more episodes of this show out to watch ☹ On the bright side… I do have a lot of other shows on my Netflix list that I could watch…

So last night, I finally started watching The Good Place. I'd been hearing great things about it for a long time (and that Twitter account, no context the good place, sure made it look intriguing), and when we were in South Africa one of my sister-in-laws was like, “NO WAY, you haven't seen it yet?!” so yesterday I took the plunge.

And my god, what a great show. I can't remember the last time I laughed so hard at a US sitcom – probably back when I was watching Community. I watched eight episodes and I probably would've watched more except Netflix kept springing these “Are you sure you're still watching?” dialogues at me and as it neared 11pm I decided to take the hint and go to bed.

I am intrigued by a lot of things. I am suspicious of this idea that only like, the top 0.001% or something of humanity would actually make it to “the good place” instead of “the bad place”. Considering some of the characters who are there, I'm pretty sure there's gonna be a twist somewhere along the way. Even setting the suspense of that aside, there have been so many classic scenes/moments… the big reveal about Jian Yu (and subsequent episode), Michael's retirement party, almost every scene Janet is in, and so on.

And all the seasons so far have been only 13 episodes! I have heard that season 3 is drastically harder to get through than the first two, but still, I feel like I'm gonna be all caught up in no time. How great is it to have a new comedy to binge on 😎