Lauren Miller Rogen obviously appreciates romantic comedies, and thinks a lot about how their structures can be applied to material not focused exclusively on romantic love. For a Good Time, Call..., which she wrote and starred in, is a comedy of sex and romance rejiggered to emphasize (platonic) female friendship.…

One of the more terrifying things about the already-pretty-scary cosmology of NBC’s The Good Place is how incredibly hard it is to get in there after you die. (Honestly, who hasn’t occasionally given in to the natural urge to poison a river or use “Facebook” as a verb?) Even so, it sounds like at least a couple …

Zach Braff, he of Scrubs and Garden State, is your standard leading man. Punk’d alum and Parenthood star Dax Shepard is, well, not. Where the former exudes a straight-laced domesticity, the other specializes in big-hearted slacker types. You’d be forgiven, then, for not realizing they’re the same person.

“Hot diggity dog.”

First off, let’s hear it for the Judge. The fact that Eleanor, Chidi, Jason, and Tahani were going to throw themselves on the mercy of this weirdo universe’s all-seeing arbiter of Good and Bad Place placement set off a flurry of dream casting guessing games. And while the suggestions on my Twitter feed (Amy Poehler…

“Jortles!”

Human joy-battery and The Good Place star Kristen Bell stopped by Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Tuesday. As it turns out that she and host Kimmel are real-world pals, they started off by regaling each other with kid and vacation stories, including that time the Kimmels and the Bell-Dax Shepard clans went camping with a…

“The real Bad Place was the friends we made along the way?”

“Why is it always the ones you most expect?”

“The best news is, none of this is suspicious.”

What if moms also had moms? Would the same hold true for moms who were, like, bad moms? That’s about the level of thinking that has gone into A Bad Moms Christmas, the rare combination quickie sequel and quickie Christmas special in one. The real question is, who can blame the filmmakers for acting fast? Like its…

So let’s get philosophical.

“He just smoked a big bowl of ennui.”

“But it’s hilarious. Of course, I mean sad.”

“Okay. Take two, folks.”

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Kristen Bell and Kelsey Grammer are in negotiations to star in a new Netflix comedy called Like Father. The movie is the directorial debut of Lauren Miller Rogen, who also wrote it, and it’s about a “workaholic woman” who gets left at the alter and goes on a honeymoon cruise by…

Thank forking God: The Good Place has been renewed for a second season. NBC announced today that Michael Schur’s afterlife comedy will get 13 more episodes, meaning that Kristen Bell and Ted Danson won’t have to look for work this fall. Plus, more Janet!