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This Is Karen Hunter

S E256: The Good Place

This Is Karen Hunter

Knarrative

Empowerment, Africana Studies, Greg Carr, Karen Hunter, History, Education, Society & Culture

4.5888 Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2020

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Is life too short? Karen contemplates immortality.

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This is Karen Hunter and welcome to the hub. So there's a series on NBC called The Good Place. The Good Play is actually aired on

0:17.0

NBC September 19, 2016. And the premises, the main character played by Kristen Bell.

0:24.4

She lands in a place that she thinks in the afterlife is heaven.

0:28.1

And, but hence, the good place.

0:31.3

She is met by who she thinks is somebody that is the architect of

0:35.1

heaven named Michael, Arch Angel, played by Ted Danson, but he's actually a demon.

0:41.0

And in this version of heaven that she thinks she's in

0:44.8

is actually a form of torture, and he's the architect of hell

0:48.4

who is doing all of these things.

0:49.8

But he gets transformed over the years, over the seasons, into a being who recognizes

0:56.3

humanity for eternity since he had been there, his whole job was to torture human beings

1:02.0

coming in.

1:03.3

But he runs into Kristen Bell's character,

1:07.0

William Jackson Harper, who I love, by the way,

1:09.0

his character, Jamila, Jamil.

1:11.2

If you don't know her, follow her Twitter she is off the chain she gives zero

1:14.4

F and she's righteous as F okay

1:17.8

uh... jemila jemile and uh... mani jacinto these four kind of travel through this space, escaping hell, ended up in

1:27.2

purgatory, ended up, I mean it's crazy, it's a comedy, and I've been watching it from its inception,

1:32.2

this is the last season, right?

1:34.0

So the latest episode that I just watched, they finally convinced God, or played by Maya Rudolph.

1:42.0

It's like, that they deserve a place in heaven.

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