“God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Who will wipe this blood off us? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we need to invent?”

The Good Place thrives on a sense of manic improvisation, both from its characters, and from itself. Nobody embodies that sense of “Screw it, let’s try the next plan/idea/iteration of the planet Earth” better than Ted Danson’s Michael, who’s been scrabbling for three seasons now, first to keep Eleanor, Chidi, Tahani,…

“Okay, that was an insane thing for us to do.”

“The key was Eleanor and Chidi’s connection.”

Partway through his interview with Seth Meyers on Tuesday’s Late Night, The Good Place star and TV legend Ted Danson called it a “a bizarre, strange, sad day” to be there. He was referring to the fact that now-convicted rapist Bill Cosby is headed to jail, noting that it was the overwhelming popularity The Cosby Show…

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 …

“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!”

The Broadcast Television Journalists Association and the Broadcast Film Critics Association got together to let their hair down tonight, handing out their picks for the top artistic contributions of 2017 (i.e., the Critics’ Choice Awards). Guillermo Del Toro turned out to be the night’s big winner on the film side of…

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

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

“I do not like this / I cannot like this/ I do not like this… man!”

“People will watch anything with ‘Chicago’ in the title.”

[Minor spoilers for season two—and one major spoiler for season one—of The Good Place follow.]

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

“Mathematically, it’s equally likely to either im- or explode.”

“Running With The Bulls” continues a couple of Curb traditions, including Larry’s knack for upending a funeral and the related custom of finding a way to ruin any memorial service for a member of the Funkhouser family. The episode also introduces the latest in a line of Larry’s therapists, played by Bryan “Dr.…

So let’s get philosophical.