Not all messages are displayed:
show all messages (1158 of them)
it's a very good show!
without being a killjoy, allow me to forewarn that i don't think it sticks the landing and gets mired down in its own sentimentality too much for its own good. that said, i watched it weekly and didn't binge so i'm curious what your take is.
Loved this show massively!
I can easily understand how you felt though - if i had to watch this show week to week ala... well, Lost, it could've driven me crazy, especially the last two seasons having the Batman '66-esque cliffhangers for several episodes in a row to end them all. The last season I really kept wondering how the show wasn't ending from like, episode 8 of 13 onward. But it's perfect as a binging show and provided some desperately needed positive vibes for me in this time. (Next up: Ted Lasso.)
Yes the show gets REALLY sentimental, but I was totally okay with it honestly. I wholeheartedly bought into the show's concept - as lampshaded clearly in one of the final episodes - that for all this thought about philosophy and what good and bad people deserve in the afterlife, without that emotional underpinning it would've rung much more hollow. (And just as importantly, as a sitcom, it hit on a pretty much every level - the characters, cast, absurdism, etc. all worked and the show didn't go on past its welcome.) Ultimately, I bought in.
Still feeling a little wistful sadness from the finale, but ultimately very happy to go through all those Jeremy Berimys. Gonna skim through this thread to see how people felt in real time...
― Nhex, Monday, 1 November 2021 00:11 (two years ago) link
eleven months pass...