![]() Also my brother just moved across the country to Austin, Texas. You MUST watch it) and have been mortally afraid of every bump in the night for days. I’ve been binging Netflix’s The Haunting of Hill House(it comes out tomorrow. Maybe I’m in a sensitive emotional place right now. The magic is in the bittersweet lessons we learn about these characters in the process. ![]() The magic isn’t in the length of it, however, or the technical mastery of the time jump technique. ![]() In this episode we’re entreated to “only” a year’s worth of our characters lives. This all happened within the 21 minute time frame afforded to a network television comedy.Ĭompared to “Dance Dance Resolution,” Season 3’s third offering, “The Snowplow,” can’t match up in sheer scale of time hopping. Each iteration varied in length of course but the end result was our core four of humans living out what had to amount to centuries worth of different lives – Groundhog Day style. When everything was said and done, Eleanor, Chidi, Tahani, and Jason had all lived out more than 800 iterations of their afterlife neighborhoods. In his ongoing attempt to trick the humans into torturing one another, Michael had to reset his neighborhood experiment…and reset, and reset, and reset, and reset. It was essentially nothing but time jumps. The Good Place Season 2, Episode 2, “Dance Dance Resolution” (ignore that the linked review says “Episode 3.” The hour-long premiere threw me). ![]() Last year on The Good Place, however, Schur outdid himself. Parks and Recreation sprung forward there years into the future for its final season and in the process predicted a Cubs World Series victory. The Good Place and P arks and Recreation creator Michael Schur has turned them into a bit of an art form, himself. ![]() The concept of a time jump isn’t just exclusive to TV dramas, though. ![]()
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