... sooo... how often are they going to do this...
it hasn’t been quite as entertaining so far.
Was my impression for 75% of the time. Ends in a good place though, and now I’m back on the fun train.
Speaking of which, Mindi was great.
As far as I'm concerned this is genius and I'm amazed that they were allowed to make it.
I guess the 2nd half of the hour long episode last week didn't count as episode 2.
The show goes somewhere in this episode. Again, not sure where it is going. But that's what makes the show worth watching. Michael realises it's time to join Eleanor, after even Jianyu has figured out they're in the bad place lol.
I think this episode was a true test for the show. The first season was great, with an incredible climax. The first episode of S2 was the re-do false start - it was the obvious thing to go for, but they were allowed it. For this episode, however, they had to prove they still had legs to run on after all of that.
I think they pulled it off. Continuing in this model would definitely wear out its welcome, so it's a good thing that they contained it to one episode.
Let's just hope there's not many more times where Eleanor figures things out and Michael erases everyone's memories again. But I still want to see where things will go from here.
As long as that doesn't happen every week now. That will get old quick. Hell, I think it might have already.
Still, a lot of the show is still brilliantly funny. "I'm gonna work-out!"
[7.8/10] Man, the new season has been on its game. One of the best parts of the show in Season 2 has been the way it’s gone behind the curtain of Michael and the rest of the bad place crew. After nearly the entire first season played it straight, there’s still a certain thrill to seeing things from Michael’s perspective and the disorganization and unrest going on behind the scenes.
There’s also a great Groundhog Day quality to the episode as Michael performs reboot after reboot and gets different variations on the same results. (The one where Eleanor overhears him explaining his scheme into the dictaphone is particularly funny.) The quick cuts between different attempts and scenes from different versions of the plan have a real “Paradigms of Human Memory” vibe from Community that is really fun, and Michael’s exhaustion and frustration is palpable. (The moment where Jason figures it out rather than Eleanor and Michael is just beside himself is fantastic.)
It’s not just Michael that’s getting fed up though, as his employees are equally restless, to the point that Vicky (formerly real Eleanor) stages a strike with various demands from the rank and file. It’s great seeing the randos like Glen discussing how to old torture methods work just fine, and feeling annoying at Michael’s attempts at innovation. It adds a new obstacle to the equation of the show, and even creates a reason for Michael to change the status quo and try to team up with his torturees at the end.
I also really enjoyed the interlude back at Marcy’s in the medium place. Marcy has evolved into a very funny character, and her desultory way of sifting through the revelations and planning from Eleanor that she’s witnessed a dozen times by now is a funny beat. I’m still not really on board with the show playing the Eleanor/Chidi romance angle. I don’t think they really work as a couple, both in terms of how the characters are written and their lack of romantic chemistry, but it at least adds an interesting wrinkle to things. And Eleanor deciding that the only way to break the cycle is to confront him and make him admit he’s losing is an intriguing direction as well.
Overall, the new season has come out of the gate in a pretty stellar fashion, with both this and the hour-long premiere burning through plot points in entertaining, propulsive fashion and bringing the comedy game too.
Someone should correct this episode on trakt's souce, episode 2 is acutally the second part of "Everything is Great!", even knowing that NBC aired both episodes like one only.
I could have skipped watching the whole first season and start the watching the show by this episode.
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Holy forks that was even better than the pilot. A free-wheeling, hilarious, creative narrative free-fall; it contains so many clever variations of season 1 writ small, then blows them up, again and again. Favorite jokes: Janet pleading (per her program) in so many ways then dying repeadtedly, Eleanor figuring it out at the very start of one attempt because she wandered in and overheard Michael, Jason figuring it out for once to the extreme hurt of Michael.