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The right place is back for a third season, and I have a review of the season that starts as soon as I take a ride on a grime in a whole waffle house …
Lord, I missed those dum-dum.
The last time we left our heroes, it became apparent that Michael had convinced the Judge to resurrect them so that they gain places in the right place thanks to their mortal existence. There was a question of whether it was really Earth or another simulation, but Mike Schur explained during the summer that it was real, and the first episode of Season 3 – " Everything is Bonzer! " generally inclined to read 2400 words of showrunner interview transcripts.
If the finale of season 2 left me worried about one of the most intelligent and entertaining TV series, it was that Earth-related flashbacks were rarely one of the most comical moments. of the season. Abandoning the metaphysics of the beyond for the relative worldliness of life in Jacksonville et al. take a too important humor tool away from Schur and his writers?
I do not need to worry. It's not just that "Everything is Bonzer! Shawn and his demons frantically trying to find them. This is because the scenes of the Earth are no longer the tales of four intentional losers on an involuntary collision course with eternal damnation. Instead, it's the story of their encounter – with Michael's stealthy kicks (aka Zack Pizazz, Gordon Indigo and Charles Brainman) – to try to improve, as they did in the Good / Wrong place. What Michael, Janet and Shawn are mostly on the sidelines removes easy conceptual humor, but it's still basically the same show, even though Eleanor, Chidi, Tahani and Jason do not know it yet.
Last season's finale introduced Eleanor's idea of being inspired by her death with death to change her life, but also that changing her life is not as easy as just deciding. "Everything Is Bonzer" extends this idea to the other three. The first semester mainly deals with Chidi's fight to be more decisive in the wake of an air-conditioned, while the second shows that Tahani and Jason each depart on a journey similar to the other two: make great transformations (or modest transformations), in the case of Jason) before returning to the seizure because it is less effort. It's the journey that each of them has been going through in the wrong place over and over and over again, only he feels more poignant and real because of where and how that happens this time. Watching each one of them try and fail perfectly illustrates the point the Judge has raised about why changes made in the afterlife do not count in the points system: Insecurity paralyzing Tahani, Jason's curse and Chidi's decision paralyzed. (The anguished groan that William Jackson Harper hints at when a comment about blueberries defeats all his progress is a comical thing.)
It's fascinating to see these characters meet again, under very different conditions and with somewhat different personalities. Chidi, with the help of Eleanor, has a lovely girlfriend in the neuroscientist Simone; this relationship alone works wonders for him even if he is above all the same old panicked Chidi. Besides, this can be the most generous spirit incarnation of Eleanor we have ever seen. The lessons learned from a good year seem to have spread to a deeper level than that of his enthusiastic winger for Chidi. Even Tahani is a little less stupid than Eleanor realizes how far her extensible sofa bed (*) would be deplorable.
(*) How does Eleanor finance this Australian getaway? Presumably, her benevolent time was already eating most of what she saved from selling her chalks to the elderly, but she seems to stay indefinitely at Down Under even before Chidi makes her official presence through her new thesis.
These transformations even extend into the afterlife. Janet seems more human than ever in her concern for Jason's continued well-being (and kindness) and his ability to lie Judge. Michael is great to help his friends and finally visit the Earth, and he finally spends enough time there to be able to please the stone face. Porter (played in impasse fashion by Mike O'Malley). Shawn is no longer the fool we've known and hated, but rather a panicked fool, prone to making fun of his subordinates as he tries to figure out how Michael beat him and where these four stupid humans are.
And the first ends on a nasty cliffhanger that brings back a beloved character, if possible, in Adam Scott Trevor. Scott was too busy doing Ghost to appear in season two, but he has time to lose. This offers a lot of potential for his special brand of comic shower, while specifying that the Earth and the Bad Place will remain so separate.
Overall, a very Promising start for a phase of the J series was more than skeptical.
Some other thoughts:
* The title is not just a nod to the previous two first (which were "Everything Is Fine" and "Everything Is Great!"), But to the new Australian decor, since "Bonzer!" Is Australian slang for "awesome".
* Schur stays true to his promise: he will quickly explain why Chidi is speaking with an American accent in the real world: Chidi tells Eleanor that he speaks French with a French accent, but that he's learned it. English in American schools. I'm not sure I'm 100% in agreement with their police work on this, but it's a pretty useful explanation for us to stop sweating.
* Meanwhile, Ted Danson's Australian accent is terrible, but intentionally and fun.
* The return of history on Earth makes for the moment much easier to incorporate new people, where we were on the eve of Nikki and Paolo's Lost territory though something important appeared in Michael's fake neighborhood. Kirby Howell-Baptiste (last seen as a teammate of Sandra Oh on Kill the day before) is a delight like Simone, and I hope it stays a while, even if it means an untimely death of poor Simone each time Chidi and the others are ready to be dead again.
* Tahani celebrity phone contacts (under T) include Taika Waititi, Taylor Swift, The Edge (private number), The Queen, The Rock, Thom York, Tilda Swinton, Tiger Woods, Tim Cook and Tim Gunn.
* When the judge appeared last season under the name of Jen / Gen, I asked the writer of this episode, Megan Amram, if it was a G (since it's hydrogen) or the more traditional J. I used it. But the commercials and legends continue to use Gen-with-aG, so I finally asked Schur, who said that it was, in fact, Gen, but that the scripts did not work. simply called "Judge". already doing a vendetta against the Emmys, I will stay with the judge, rather than engaging in spelling.
What did everyone think?
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