Making Peace and Rooting for Love: the End of “The Good Place”
There’s a certain “cool girl” factor in watching “The Good Place” for the Big Ideas and not the relationships. But now that it’s almost over, I’m rooting for Eleanor and Chidi.
Romantic Love
“Someone Great” is the Romantic Comedy We Need
When I was pre-teen and teenager, the women dancing in their underwear on screen were white and super thin. Think Cameron Diaz and Kirsten Dunst. They had this carefree cuteness, this unquestionable right to be fearless, sexy, and the center of attention. All of us wanted to be them, as unattainable as that was for […]
Finding Love and Pandemonium on “The Good Place”
In “Pandemonium,” the season three finale of The Good Place, the show makes explicit its most radical idea yet: love. Specifically, love as what gives life meaning. As Janet, the all-knowing robot says, “If there were an answer I could give you to how the universe works, it wouldn’t be special. It would just be […]