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THE GOOD PLACE
October 5, 2017  | By David Bianculli

NBC, 8:30 p.m. ET

 

To say that The Good Place has reinvented itself this season would be a severe understatement. Two weeks ago, in the Season 2 premiere, it reinvented itself from top to bottom – by revealing that the “good place” actually was a sort of hell, and Kristen Bell’s Eleanor and the others were being emotionally tortured by this new hell’s devilish architect, Michael (played by Ted Danson). Last week, after Eleanor had discovered the ruse, Danson’s determined demon tried, tried again, by rebooting everyone’s memories and tweaking his, and their, vision of “the good peace.” And when he failed a second time, he tried, tried again – hundreds of times in last week’s episode alone, in a sort of Groundhog Day in Hell exercise in futility. So now what? More than with almost any other comedy on TV, I have no idea. But I’m fascinated…

 
 
 
 
 
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