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NBC comedy The Good Place , starring Kristen Bell and Ted Danson in the two lead roles, danced across our TV screens for thirteen episodes over the Fall through January 19th (last week).  The show focuses on Eleanor Shellstrop (Bell), going to a place that's "not quite Heaven" named The Good Place, led by immortal architect Michael (Danson).  Almost immediately from the get go, Eleanor realizes that she doesn't belong here and that she must have been dropped in there by mistake, as her still crabby attitude from life on Earth leaves quite the sour taste in the neighborhood, causing a trash storm, giant shrimp to fly across the sky, and even a giant sinkhole to open up in the restaurant.  Holding a strong desire to be able to remain in The Good Place and not be taken to The Bad Place, the show's version of Hell, Eleanor enlists the help of her soulmate Chidi (William Jackson Harper) to teach her about ethics, or as how she defines it "how to be good....

A Series Of Unfortunate Events was a book series that was a large chunk of what I read in the second and third grade.  I never read all the books all the way through, but I did read some of them, and enjoyed them.  I also watched the 2004 film with Jim Carrey and Timothy Spall, among others. For those of you who may be unfamiliar with the books or the film, the series concerns the Baudelaire orphans, who have just lost their parents in a fire that also destroyed their entire home as well.  With only the shirts on their backs and an enormous fortune that is not to be dispersed until Violet (eldest child) turns eighteen, the children are sent to live with a wide variety of guardians, the first of which is Count Olaf, a local actor with a troupe.  After almost legally marrying Violet to get the fortune he loses them and then ensues on a chase to get the fortune, during which he murders several people and fools whoever the current guardian of the Baudelaires...

Fuller House  is a show that serves as a gender-swapped follow-up to the late 1980's and early 1990's ABC sitcom  Full House .  The latter of the two shows just named was met with critical acclaim and had many fans, however the former has been met with mostly mixed reviews. I'm not here today to chronicle the entire second season for you, as there are articles that do that, rather I'm just here to share some fast thoughts both good and bad on Season 2 of this show.  I must admit that I'm already getting very excited for Season 3 at the time of writing this post, and I'm hoping it manages to make it out sometime this year.  We probably won't see it until the Fall since production just started this week, and I'm hoping they (writers and cast) make it worth the wait.  Season 2 was not as hard for me to get into as Season 1 was, evidenced by the fact I just blogged about Season 1 last week.  For me, this alone showed huge signs of improvem...

Fuller House is a show that serves as a gender-swapped follow-up to the late 1980's and early 1990's ABC sitcom Full House .  The latter of the two shows just named was met with critical acclaim and had many fans, however the former has been met with mostly mixed reviews. I'm not here today to chronicle the entire first season for you, as there are articles that do that, rather I'm just here to share some fast thoughts both good and bad on Season 1 of this show, as I have just started Season 2. A good thing to mention right away is that the show was quite hard for me to get into at first.  The first episode, while nice for exposition, was not much more than that, and the next few episodes, while some of the best when looking at the season as a whole, seemed to be lacking in some places too.  I had been sporadically watching the first six episodes over two months, as to me it was something that was only good in very small doses every once in a while, ...