PEL Presents: PMP#32: Judging "The Good Place"

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

Mark Linsenmayer

Casey, Paskin, Philosophy, Linsenmayer, Society & Culture, Alwan

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Mark, Erica, and Brian discuss Michael Schur's NBC TV show. Is it good? Does it actually teach moral philosophy? We talk sit-com tropes, TV finales, the show's convoluted structure, the puzzle of heaven, and more.

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0:00.0	This is pretty much pop a culture podcast, a podcast that explores afterlife related
0:12.8	media such as All Slugs, Go To Heaven, Ding Dong, You Are Dead, and The Fast and Furious,
0:17.2	Part 9 Jason State Them Goes To Hell.
0:20.0	Those are just consistently bad jokes.
0:21.8	I don't know if I should include that.
0:24.4	Today everything is fine.
0:27.2	As we're covering the TV show The Good Place, running four seasons from 2016 to the present
0:31.2	created by Michael Schur, I'm Mark Clinton, my having successfully treated my trolley problem
0:36.1	with a few applications of a sterile cream.
0:38.6	I'm Eric Aspires, constantly disproving John Locke's theory of personal identity through
0:43.3	my Goldfish-like memory.
0:45.2	And I'm Brian Hurt, and I always knew that Dwight Schruetz's cousin Mose would make
0:49.2	one of the smartest comedies in TV history.
0:51.9	Dwight himself said it, the world shines on Mose, and sure enough.
0:55.3	Wait, is Schur Mose?
0:57.3	Uh-huh.
0:58.3	I didn't know that.
1:00.2	Well we learned something.
1:01.2	Thanks everybody.
1:02.2	See you next time.
1:05.3	So we had an episode a while ago on Friends to talk about what sitcoms were.
1:10.6	As a representative example, as a high point, as a lauded thing.
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