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The Good Place (Spoiler Alert)

 "I know you're just barfing Wikipedia entries to avoid feeling." I love the horney Arizona trash, the indecisive Ethicist, the swamp city trash, the upper class people pleaser. I don't really know why the architect does what he does. Janet is of course everyone's favorite. I love it when they're all Janet in the void, I love those kind of moves.  The first season is a setup for the reversal of finding out it's not the good place. Blew my mind the first time I saw that. The second season is a jumble of reboots of the mission, and it's about judging others. In a way it's all about the judgement of what is good, considering people have the potential to change. Perhaps the potential to change is a theme. I took ethics with the glorious Claudia Card (at UW), and she was a student of John Rawls. So I enjoy all the ethical discussions.  I had not hear about the happiness machine. Should we just do everything to make everyone else happy? That would really...