503: God Is a Job Nobody Wants

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 29 February 2020

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

NBC’s “The Good Place” recently completed its fourth and final season. We send off this instant television classic with a discussion of its view of the afterlife, philosophy, and dumb jokes. Did the final season’s shift in perspective work? Did the final episode provide the closure we wanted? Shut up, Glenn!

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0:00.0	Shut up, Glenn.
0:02.6	The Incomparable, number 503, February 2020.
0:10.6	Welcome back, everybody, to The Incomparable.
0:12.9	I am your host, Jason Snell.
0:14.6	And in this episode, we're going to be talking about the Good Place, the final season of the good place, as well as
0:21.7	sort of looking back on the show as a whole. Yes, this is a network television sitcom. Yes,
0:28.0	it is way more than that. And I have four wonderful people here to talk with me about the good place.
0:34.9	Let me introduce my panel. Glenn Fleischman is here. And what I want to say
0:39.1	about this is that during the first season of The Good Place, Glenn chose to draft it and induct it
0:45.9	into our Television Hall of Fame episode, bold move that has proven to be completely correct. Hi, Glenn.
0:52.6	Jason, I'm finally ready to go to second level with you.
0:55.2	Rejected?
0:56.1	I reject that.
0:57.7	We're going to remain here on the fourth level where everything is fine.
1:01.5	Monty Ashley is also here.
1:02.5	Hi, Monty.
1:03.6	Ding.
1:04.1	Hi there.
1:07.2	Got it.
1:08.2	Can I have a glass of water?
1:10.2	Ding.
1:10.6	Here you go. Thanks.
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