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The right place
Do not let the good life escape you
Season 3
Episode 9
Editor's note
Photo: Colleen Hayes / NBC
The first season of the TV show Lost ended on a frustrating cliffhanger, with some of the island castaways opening a mysterious hatch, peering through a deep, dark hole, and … to continue. Season two then immediately solved the question of "what's going on below the door?" In an unexpected way. The first episode began with a man living in hiding, listening to the music of "Mama" Cass Elliot, preparing for another day of testing to live a life without fail, to avoid a fate worse than death.
In this evening The right placeWe finally meet only the legendary Doug Forcett, a man from Calgary who, in 1972, grew up in mushrooms and discovered the exact functioning of the afterlife, making him a celebrity from the farthest in the world. . And what does he do the first time we see him? Live away from the grill, listen to Mama Cass, read Peter Singer's book The greatest good you can doand in search of personal perfection.
Once Lost fans have been left inside the hatch, the show has changed, becoming more openly a wild sci-fi / fantasy epic. I have the feeling that the arrival of Doug Forcett is going to be equally crucial for The right place.
Do not get me wrong – it's not that Doug is so impressive as a person. As played by the masterful Michael McKean (having the chance to be funny again after his long relay spell in the mud). You better call Saul), Doug defined the word "virtuous". Terrified by eternal damnation, he has spent the last 46 years leading a miserable and inconsequential life, eating only radishes and lentils, drinking his own filtered trash and allowing himself to be moved by every idiot and wandering dog who wander on his property. "I have been mutilated many times," he admits, beckoning to a cute little dog. "This little guy is going right for the squeaker."
Michael and Janet – disguised as veteran journalists "Michael Scoop" and "Janet … Scoop" – are initially impressed by Doug's ability to "get it" and think it might be the man who will serve as a model for humanity to save our souls. But it does not take them long to see that Doug has become "a pump of happiness," sacrificing himself for others without thinking about it. Even when he is assured that he has probably earned more than enough points to qualify in the right place and can now lighten up a bit, he does not see how it would work. "Eat something other than lentils," suggests Michael. "Like radishes?" Asks Doug.
During the time that Michael and Janet spend with him, Doug accidentally falls on a snail and is nearly out of order, shouting at his guests to bring him some Scotch while he applies pressure on the tiny mollusk. ("As well a lot pressure! he moaned, "I'll need this tape!") And yet, he's not unaware of how strange and unbalanced his existence has become: "It's the only rational way of living," he insists. before adding, "Now, if you'll excuse me, I'll walk to Edmonton to give $ 85 to a charity on snails."
Honestly, Shawn could not have created a better evil place than the one Doug created for himself. And speaking of the demon we love to hate, Shawn shows himself at the end of "Do not let the good life escape you", with all his army of demons, ready to bring humans back to perdition and to profit from the stunned. , sad look on Michael's face. ("I love to see the looks on people's faces," he shouted, "that's the best part of my job.")
Before the arrival of Shawn, Eleanor, Tahani, Chidi and Jason spend their time in a pub called the Moose Puking, in scenes that would be a waste of time quite useless if it was for two things: 1) How do two adorable Chidi and Jason play together "Jacksonville Style Pool", where players use their hands instead of tails, and create their own points, and (2) how Eleanor is slowly confessing to Chidi that she's seen falling in love with him in a Good Place Souvenirs, and that, "It's quite possible that I'm in love again … here … on this plane of existence … today 39 … now … in Canada … during this fight … with demons. "
Fight with demons? Yes, fight with demons. One of the main reasons why this episode gets the maximum number of stars – in addition to McKean's perfect performance as Doug – is because the bar fight in Puking Moose is one of the most more entertaining of the whole series. Jason appearing suddenly with one of his molotov cocktails (starting to shout "Bortl …!" Before getting banged), at Tahani fencing with a cue (and giving himself a deduction of three tenths for blaming his opponent), Janet whistling, "Fuck me this, fight!" before the cutting karate to make its way through the hordes of hell, all in these five minutes of television is pure pleasure. The writers and cast (and director Dean Holland) should expect a fair amount of Good Place points when they die, just for this episode.
The chapter then ends with several thickenings of a parcel of land that had been a little thin in recent weeks. Meeting Doug convinced Michael of something he had been suspecting for a while: the post-life point system is scrambled and he needs to talk to the accountants about what they are doing wrong. Before he can escape, other demons arrive and Janet has no choice but to zap everyone into his Void.
So that's where we leave it: as humans head for a black hole (metaphorical), before starting a mission to save humanity by changing the rules of the universe. From now on, as they said on Lost, what must happen will happen.
• Let's go to the theory! Michael pushes Shawn through a portal before the demon can explain what he meant about the families of humans – and Doug Forcett! – all end up in the wrong place. ("I mean, why do not you let the guy go on saying bad stuff, right?", Whispers Michael defending himself why he sent Shawn packing.) I've been wondering since the second season when there's really had is a good place. Perhaps there is only one afternoon of unlimited possibilities, that mortal dead humans have had a hard time living a long time ago, as we are used to doing. Is that what Shawn suggested? If I'm right at 92%, I hope my picture will hang on the wall The right place writers' room.
• As he usually does when pretending to be human, Michael goes too far as a folk journalist Michael Scoop, embarking on a long reverie about the good ordinary people on our planet. tall blue marble, before Janet closes it. (Janet, meanwhile, forgets where she is for a moment, and when Doug asks if her guests know anything about snail first aid, she responds reflexively, "Yes.")
• Doug calls each snail "snail" because "I do not name them if they already have a name they prefer." But he gives a name to the one he kills: Martin Luther Gandhi, Snail of Tyler Moore. (Other dead animals on Doug's property: Rosa Parks, Deer Tick, Franklin Delano Raccoon and Abraham Lincoln Einstein Mandela Goose.)
• Seriously, what is the quality of Michael McKean? With his rich and deep voice and his distinguished attitude, he can make even the simplest line more fun. Like, "What can I do for you? Do you want to move in permanently? "; or, while warning other snails that he passes, "Be careful … here is a shoe.
• I thought it would be the last Good place of the year, considering how past seasons have been fragmented; but apparently, the show will no longer be broadcast for a few weeks, then on December 6 with the real latest Good place of the year, an episode entitled "Janet (s)" (which sounds already amazing).
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