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I see by the comments that this was posted a few years ago. Well, today is December 23, 2024 and I've just finished watching your informative and thought provoking video. Thank you for the research, the examples (of what NOT to write, as well as what was decently written), and for the inspiration to attempt to write my own story using current events and individuals. I'm sharing this out and saving it for repeated watching. PEACE

Your conclusion is naive, but otherwise, good video. There are some major problems with Capitalism when oversight becomes corrupted, but the problem is, there is no other system that works any better. The fault is in unaccountable human nature, not the system. A person can easily be good. With more than one person, Game Theory, and issues of trust make altruistic action much more difficult.

Omg someone other than me likes the Simcity 2013 soundtrack!

I only object to saying Disney gives fake happiness, ain't nothing fake about it at all! It's awesome and gives you a great break from the stress of real life. Great video other than that though! Also, we need an update now that the show is done!!

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all your criticism on the "good place" doesnt matter, because we later find out its actually the BAD place. the class system in the fake good place is there to torture eleanor. the soulmate system is there to make tahani and jason miserable. its the whole point. the ACTUAL good place works differently (the point system is messed up but thats the mission the main characters go on so there goes your point). i did enjoy this video this is not any hate but just pointing out how the show works!

Here after the 24 election and this is hitting far too hard

I just want to say, this was a great video to watch after the election this week. Reminding me that we can work together to make our communities better even if the systems are against us.

5 years late, but I hope you got that job and everything is going well

Capitalism bad, got it. Next instruction please. Cannot think for self.

The whole video makes me think of Shaun. Even the top and those demons aren’t happy even if they get the most supposed benefits out of this job. In Season 4 he tells Michael how at first- when he gouged out his first eye- he was ecstatic to get paid to do the job but over and over and over again, even he had to admit a stagnant, rotting system provided no vigor to life so he lost his passion for his work and he was as listless and depressed as anyone. Until, until someone finally fought back and also consider Michael being the radical visionary among demons, Shaun approved the attempt to see if a change could bring the fun back to the job. In human terms he would be that ruthless CEO who had all the advantages, did all the work within the capitalist system ingrained in him as inevitable and finally got a star studded office. Only to find that the top branch is a lonely place with no real stimulation that honest relationships can provide. Shaun would only have fearful, subservient underlings. The most fun he ever had was when someone fought back and kept challenging him to think his way out and use his resources. The humans bettered Shaun. And he looks to truly accept this at the end and in a reformed system the demons aren’t damned but are provided a compromise that sates their needs as well. And we see this evolution in how he genuinely expressed faith in a human. One of his enemies no less to advance well and soon in the company. 😂

I know this is an old video but does anybody know what the music playing at 9:00 is?

Ya know, I'm not really a fan of Shur's other shows - but, The Good Place is amazingly resonant - especially in the era of the orange menace

Parks and Rec has several govt workers that don’t give a fuck about the people, even in Leslie’s own dept

The problem with feminism is the radical modern feminists get all the attention. Egalitarian feminists such as myself don't draw most of the attention because we're not out there screeching at the top of our lungs at every tiny injustice that happens in the world, and so casual people who don't investigate these things think all feminism is the crazy chick screaming like a banshee at Trump's inauguration.

I really love this video so much, thank you so much for making me feel like I'm not alone with my views on this show and the world

Loved your commentary. thank you for the video

Interesting thoughts, thank you. You said you needed more "DEI" in The Good Place... well, Eleanor admits several times that she's turned on by Tahani, and there is also that quite annoying gossiping gay man John. Nowadays new shows have like a checklist: Ok, we have to have one gay, one lesbian, one colored person, one disabled person, etc. Boring!

oh nooo...she said "Video essay will last forever". This is her last video 🥲

Good analysis of the show. However, I just sat back and enjoyed it. The further I got into it, the more it made me think. Which I think was the idea. I’m 78, and it’s the best show I’ve ever watched, hands down.

Ugh... lost me at my poly friend 🙄 gross

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived - This is to have succeeded

This is such a good video. What happened? Why the sudden stop? When she said the bit at the end about needing to find a job, after everything this video built up to say, I felt that. I hope she found a good job that left her no time to make videos.

The Good Place committee = Democrats; The Bad Place committee = Republicans; The Afterlife (points) system = Capitalism

Funnily enough, the only reason I started watching the Good Place was finding out about the season 1 twist and watching from that point on.

So this is basically like Batman v Superman, but instead of Turkish airlines

capitalism has brought millions out of poverty though and markets are the only way to divide resources :))

I also find the idea of accountants being in charge of ones fate as a fun play on the idea that capitalism manipulates even those who don't know they're being manipulated. And the use of clothing and gender roles also paints a very real image of the effects of capitalism on gender roles, women have to perform and men have the financial or work based burden. This show is fabulous!!!

I am not sure about lots of your criticisms of the original good place. For one, you seem to be using examples of the original four to show how flawed the concept of soulmates are. It feels like I shouldn't need to point out how the fact that they are not soulmates! That is the point of the torture - that Tahani and Chidi are forced to endure their 'soulmates' who they are not compatible with, so this is not a good criticism of the soulmate system. It is not like an arranged marriage system in the sense that they are random people being paired up, instead they have been found by the all knowing afterlife to be truly connected on every level, and for this reason being alone in the Good Place is unheard of, because everyone is so perfect for their soulmate. Second, it is not the fault of this soulmate system that there are few LGBTQ+ couples. The main four are all assumed to be heterosexual, which is a flaw of the representation in TV shows if anything, not a flaw of the Good Place. Also you say that because our time on earth is spent obsessing over this idealised monogamous relationship, we shouldn't be subject to it in heaven, but I disagree. This is exactly why it isn't a bad idea in the Good Place, because it satisfies and resolves what much of our human existence is devoted to. The concept of polyamory is a different question, just because we don't see it in the show doesn't mean a soulmate polycule doesn't exist somewhere in the Good Place. On the culture argument, I agree that much of the middle class culture of the Good Place is concerning and there are obvious flaws in the system in this way. I think that Tahani's presence cannot be used as an example of classism in the Good Place, because she didn't make it, but the froyo etc is definitely a good point. However, I think the differences between the paintings for Tahani, the love for opera over EDM music could be the Good Place's allusion to the issues with the points system, and how older practices or traditions are preferred by the Good Place because of the fact that there hasn't been a new admission into the Good Place for centuries.

Very insightful. Eye opening analysis.

The best part of The Good Place is Wheatley (Stephen Merchant) being the head accountant.

hopeful bgm

I find it weird that fantastic beasts was made on a an enclopedia

I don't like it as i dont like marval movies

If by, "work = morality" you mean; being self-sufficient human being and not leaching off others/society for your existence, even when you have the capacity to support yourself, is moral? Then yeah work does equal morality.

8:21 IS THIS THE SIM CITY 3000 SOUNDTRACK???

the good place. the most punk show of the past decade

16:26 Well, Schurr can officially bite me. Acting as though conquest was something uniquely Western when it had been going on in China and Africa for centuries before Europe even thought about it. Now this fun, if silly and sometimes self-indulgent, series is ruined for me because now I know about the political crap motivating him. Dang it.

As a Christian, I find The Good Place interesting because the desire to be good is still motivated by self interest and not by faith in God, and so to me it is no wonder everyone struggles with existential crises.

Video is great but I jjust wanna say that the SimCity music is such a slay!

7:27 ok so first of all I would like to point out that even though there are yes soulmates and abundance of heterosexual couples in the neighborhood that Eleanor and Michael are in but it has been continuously portrayed that the people that most fit together the 322 people live together in this neighbourhood so Wouldn't that just solve every doubt, as in the people here do want soulmates and that they do want monogamy and they do want to live in pastel colored buildings. there would definitely be other neighborhoods that focus on other factors specifically what she talked about poly and non soulmates and no romantic connection, these points or some version of these are running disappointments in various videos like these, and I just can't understand why do they not think this way?

Came for the Good Place, left due to communist ranting

The creator of the office, parks and rec might hold classist beliefs? I'm shocked...

Interesting

Sad to see that you kinda disapear from the Internet, but if you read this anywhen, The Good Place is my favourite show ever and i loved this video so so much, i never tought about the colonialism thing. Absolutly great job!!! <3

While I love the narrative of the good place, the whole “humanity hasn’t been good for 521 years” is a deeply imperial core pov. Even if many humans are unwillingly shafted into exploitation and suffering, who are they making suffer? Maybe I missed some things, it’s been a bit since I watched the show, I don’t remember meeting any human character without at least proximity to very wealthy countries. I find it very hard to imagine that every single one of the people in exploited countries were unable to be kind enough, buy local low exploitation products, etc for 500 years. It turns the global south into an abstract moral entity to be harmed and not a place filled with people with agency. I know it’s just because it’s an American show with American writers, but it is still an oversight.

The entire plot went over your head. It's clear, blatantly clear, you're a liberal. Because we all know liberals have no sense of humor and what liberals think is a sense of humor is as dry as King Tuts taint is today. And to prove it there isn't any way for you, or anyone reading this, to disprove me. Now bite

While watching that piece with The Good Place committee, i thought "it's just like the UN and OSCE"

Learning to be a good person with philosophy is literal hell