Show review time! I discovered a new-to-me show on Netflix which I've been watching over the past few weeks. It's pretty good and is vaguely similar to Arrested Development.
I just started season 3; season 4 (the final season) isn't on Netflix yet. This show seems to be relatively popular so I guess I'm a bit late to the party.
I think I like this show more than Portlandia -- certainly as far as rewatchability goes. There are only a couple episodes of Portlandia I'd bother to rewatch, whereas pretty much every single AD episode is a fun rewatch (though of course I do have my favorites -- Meat the Veals: "That was before he saw you pounding that sweet piece of Veal!"). Portlandia suffers, I think, from the really good bits/parts getting bogged down in all the other mediocre portions. The snails sketch (in Open Relationship S8E5) is my favorite -- morbidly and gleefully surreal. That's what I like.
Anyways, back to The Good Place -- I could see myself rewatching various episodes a la carte after I've finished the entire show. Overall, it's got an interesting premise and is well-executed. It also has been making me want to read a bit about moral philosophy/ethics.
More on the vague similarity to Arrested Development:
"Stylistically and content-wise they are quite variant, but I found The Good Place possessed very similar surreal, absurdist humor and a densely interwoven plot with many self-references, meta aspects and foreshadowing out the wazoo- definitely some high-caliber writing.
It's directed by Michael Schur who did Parks and Rec and it has a very similar feel but with a completely different story minus the mockumentary style." [source]
Personally I didn't really think it felt that similar to Parks and Rec, though I suppose now that I've thought about it, I can sort of see it. Parks and Rec is an... alright show in and of itself (but also massively overrated/over-popular, I think), though I got bored of it after five (?) seasons or so and never really felt any desire to go back and rewatch any of the episodes I'd already seen.
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