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Michael and Us

PREVIEW - #510 - 2017-core

Michael and Us

Luke Savage and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.6668 Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2024

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Our Superdelgate patron tier has tasked us with discussed the sitcom THE GOOD PLACE, and it leads us down a dark and scary path of remembering culture and politics in the early Trump era. PLUS: Checking in with Garfield Eats, and Luke sounds off on Masters of the Air. PATREON-EXCLUSIVE EPISODE - https://www.patreon.com/posts/510-2017-core-100993255

Transcript

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0:00.0

I thought the show was perfectly fine. But also, it's like, yeah, I saw the pilot episode,

0:04.4

and I'm sure a lot happened in the subsequent four seasons. A lot of incident happened.

0:10.9

On a thematic level, I get it, though. It's in a version of heaven, and they talk about

0:17.3

philosophical stuff, and it's smart. And the philosophical stuff is all sorts of things

0:23.4

like, you know, the things that we've all been thinking about low these past centuries.

0:28.5

What is good? What is bad? Death, man. Can it really be heaven if it lasts forever? Does death make

0:36.8

life better? Can a bad person become a good person?

0:40.6

Are good people actually bad people, et cetera, et cetera? You know, all those big philosophical questions.

0:45.8

So, uh, your take on the show, Will is that it was, it's fine. That's your take? Yeah, it's,

0:51.7

it's, it's, it's fine. Middling lukewarm approval from me. I thought that it's take? Yeah, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, I'm

1:08.5

here's my review. Okay. Here's my review. Okay, look. Well, I think there's a reason people

1:12.7

wanted us to watch this, and I don't think it's because they wanted to hear that it was fine.

1:18.1

Nonetheless, I'm going to do my own version of what Will just did and just say off the top that

1:24.4

Michael Scher, who was the creator of this series, was also involved in the

1:28.4

office. He was, you know, writer on that show, a show I genuinely like, at least for several

1:34.7

seasons. Parks and Recreation, another show, which he co-created with Greg Daniels, producer of the

1:40.1

office. You know, it's very pleasant. It's very funny. The politics become increasingly

1:45.2

untenable for me as it wears on, and I couldn't get through the last few seasons. But very

1:51.1

funny show, very well acted, very enjoyable. So... But... So Mr. Schur has done fine work, but

1:59.4

watching the show The Good Place felt like being attached to an

2:03.3

IV drip from which a liquefied form of 2016 era PMC liberalism was slowly injected into

2:11.1

my bloodstream. So henceforth, I'm going to be doing the remainder of this episode, having watched

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