(Vol. Note: the main destroyers that came before the series Beautiful Place… As well as Missing.)
Throughout its four-year run, the Michael Schur series Beautiful Place it was one of the smartest, most ambitious shows on television. NBC has just wrapped up a satcom with about four dead people, a demon, and "Janet" after a lifetime, trying to help each other (and ultimately, everyone else) become better people, constantly battling some of the worst philosophical questions. The fact that Beautiful Place Examined the principles of Aristotelian ethics and the deinology of Imanuel Kant in elite comics is entertainment.
The recently released series, “When You're Ready,” wraps up the stories of the main characters by honoring their grievances for the better. Anyone who saw the end of Schur's series Parks and Recreation, which extends the life of each individual life to its accomplishments and then to say the last goodbye, would guess Beautiful Place it would end up the same. In Beautiful PlaceThe traditional episode, "Patty," Janet (D & # 39; Arcy Carden) created an environment that would allow people who feel satisfied with their time in a beautiful place "bring their (story) back to the universe" and re-enter the unknown how does each character fit into that department.
But while the moments of certain characters around the site were amazing, they each came from a logical point of view, bringing the whole circle together. Simple, sweet Jason Mendoza (Manny Jacinto), who pretends to be a silent monk for most of the year, is the first one ready to go on. However, when he incorrectly sets the necklace he made for Janet to remember him, he stays in the jungle around the portal for years (probably billions of them) waiting for him to come back and be able to give it to him. (The necklace was on the other side of her pocket.) She cle ars her mind and thinks about the meaning of the universe. Janet notes: “The nature of the nun. Jason's invention from a fake monk to a real monk is the end of his adventure, and when he responds, "What do you mean?", It's a good sitcom button.
Eleanor (Kristen Bell), Chidi (William Jackson Harper), and Tahani (Jameela Jamil) all have equally clean arcs. Chidi, who walked to The Bad Place hesitantly, decides with a clear light when he is ready to enter the portal. Tahani's life – and much of his later life – is defined by his relationships with powerful people. He ends up being the architect of the Beautiful Place, one of the most powerful creatures in the universe. (It is a sign of Schur's love for these characters that he was not punished for his lust, he simply learned how to organize himself.) Eleanor lived her life on Earth selfishly, but uses her last act as a sensitive person to help someone else and by promoting the resident of the Medium Place only of life, Mindy St. Claire (Maribeth Monroe), to try and get into The Good Place.
The finale ends with Michael (Ted Danson), a demon-turned architect, who looks to Earth for life as a human being – the greatest adventure any human can ever experience. He is actively involved in people's physical activities such as hand-eating microwave dinners, and texting to a friend that he has five minutes left when he's out of the house. He forged meaningful relationships with people, including a cameo from Danson's real wife, Mary Steenburgen. Michael's end to Earth clarifies what all that philosophy was about – the show was always more concerned with what it means to be human than what happens when we die.
Schur curated his infamous show in honor of the fact that it has always been the story of an original adventure game and an ancient sitcom. For all its activity, Beautiful PlaceThe surprises have paid off because the show is played by the rules of comedy and comedy. Schur combined the two genres in unexpected ways, but most importantly, he and his creative team never gave up either way when working for the other.
On its face, Beautiful Place was built as a traditional NBC sitcom. With the continuation of the 51-hour episodes, beautiful, beautiful hairstyles, problem solving, and sometimes kisses. The jokes are strong and come in with an unforgettable drive, thanks to a writers room with some Hollywood staff. It also stars the biggest sitcom actor ever, CheersTed Danson.
Schur is a bona fide king of the genre, active in Office left to create Parks and Recreation, then Brooklyn Nine-Nine. He has a certain goofy sense of humor, and a sense of confidence that is evident in his body of work. All three of the shows he developed include comedies full of awkward characters who try hard and often fail in weird ways. He continues to return to certain character archetypes: there is an obvious line, for example, to depart Parks and Recreation& # 39; You are a dear Andy Dwyer fan on Beautiful PlaceAn even more interesting link, Jason. But when Schur defined Beautiful PlacePromotion back in 2016, he didn't call Parks and Rec, Cheers, or other NBC sitcoms containing them before them. You mentioned the drama of Damon Lindelof of ABC Missing.
Custom, Missing and Beautiful Place they share a lot in common. Both occur later in life, however Beautiful Place more important than before Missing about whether its characters are dead or natural. More broadly, both reflect philosophies that explore words and struggle with what it means to be human in society.
At the technical level, Beautiful Place and borrow MissingRelying on twins that work with viewers' guesses. (Other popular TV drama, similar Walking Dead either Mr. Robot, it may have been an inspiration in that area.) Like those shows, Beautiful Place busy with unexpected curveballs, especially revealed at the end of season 1 that the broadcast is actually in the Wrong Place, and they were aiming for the short.
In addition to those big revelations, however, the Schur peppers belong to the rest of the program, such as Season 1 that revealed that Jianyu's quiet solo was actually Florida DJ Jason, or that Janet was replaced by a bad guy. Beautiful Place specifically for these twisted genres, which reveal new aspects of the story, rather than ignoring what fans have already learned about the characters. The show is like a kaleidoscope that finally creates new patterns with similar pieces.
And twisted ones help to plead Beautiful PlaceStory moving forward. Unlike most sitcoms, they can get stronger once the writers have run out of humor to put their characters in (Friends& # 39; Ross and Rachel managed to break up many times), it felt like Schur was building something up. There is something strange inside this physical building. Beautiful Place it is an adventure story then, just as it is a sitcom; Schur always puts his characters at risk and allows them to escape cleverly, but face new, bigger threats.
Helping a well-formed sitcom or a well-formed adventure is a way of accomplishing itself. Cheers and Missing both anchors their paths. But what does it do Beautiful Place more important than a seamless manner Missing-style narrative stories as well Cheers-Discovered sites full of humor surround each other.
Schur revealed his entire plan at the end of Beautiful Place the end. While visiting Mindy St. Clair, Eleanor promises, "There is so much joy waiting for you to build relationships with other people." This is the heart of the show, all the jokes and all the straightforward jokes that point to it, the unifying vision that makes the different elements of the show come together and work as seamless moments.
The last event is about a neighbor who receives Michael's e-mail, begins to dump it, and decides to walk it to him. This is a normal time, but it's heartbreaking because we've been living with Michael for four years, to see him become a better person because of his relationships with other people. All of Chidi's philosophical lessons about what we owe him were to lead to that one moral choice – the simple decision to do something good for someone else. Michael's last line, sincerely telling his neighbor "Keep it stubborn!", An invitation for us all to do the same for each other.