Before Ted Danson ran the bad place on The Good Place, he was destined to go there on Magnum PI. He looks the same now as he did when he was 33 in that 1981 episode.
Remember when season 1 of The Good Place ended and Elanor (Kristen Bell) revealed to her friends that they were in the bad place and not the good one; and your mouth hit the floor. Turns out we were not alone, so was the rest of the cast that is named Ted Danson or Bell. The show’s creator Michael Schur, kept that shocking ending from everyone, but his leads, as long as he could. Then when it was time for them to know, he recorded Jameela Jamil (Tahini), D’Arcy Carden (Janet), Manny Jacinto (Jason), William Jackson Harper’s (Chidi) reaction to the season 1 cliffhanger. Then he gave that video to Bell and she recently shared it with Entertainment Weekly to promotes yesterday’s season premiere.
What was in this unearthed video? The four of them reacting like all those vids on YouTube when an adult child tells their parents that they are not only pregnant, but they are pregnant with twins, a boy and a girl. In others words, they reacted with even more shock and awed than we did. Proving they are just as invested in The Good Place as we are. If you did watch the season premiere 2 yesterday, tell me what you thought of it. Wasn’t it good? Can I tell you gets better next week and even better the week after that.
Therefore if you missed yesterday’s season premiere, then you can watch it on NBC’s app or OnDemand and then you can watch the rest of the season Thursdays at 8:30p.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5QLY94kRJQ The Good Place is back with an hour-long episode on NBC tonight at 10p and it picks up with our favorite humans just having been rebooted in the bad place thinking they are really in the good place.
Elanor (Kristen Bell) once again is told by Michael (Ted Danson) that she is dead and is given a tour of the town and gets to meet her hot soul mate. She is not the only one with new soul mate, so are Chidi Anagonye (William Jackson Harper), Tahani Al-Jamil (Jameela Jamil) and Jianyu Li (Manny Jacinto); and their new companions are keeping the four of them apart. What happens when Janet (D’Arcy Carden) gives Elanor the note the recently departed left in her mouth to find Chidi? First she has to figure out what the fork a Chidi is in order to find him.
While the four of them are reliving their first day in the good place, Michael’s demons are learning what their roles are in it. Some are happier than others and most of them just want to torture the humans. Will they get their wish? Will the four figure out once again that they are in bad place? Since I want to go to the good place, I cannot tell you.
What I can tell you is that I think that Ted Danson was born to play this part. He is so good at being a demon, you will actually think he was sent from below. That and after watching the first 3 episodes for season 2, I am happy to report that it is not suffering the sophomore slump. In fact, it is a whole lot stronger. Especially since there is a lot more Janet this season and Carden steals the show with every scene she is in. You can honestly tell this cast is having a blast working on this darling sitcom.
The Good Place might take place in Hell, but it is Heaven sent. Therefore watch it tonight at 10p and then starting next week every Thursday at 8:30p.
We know that celebrities get together all the time and have dinner, we just never see it. Yesterday, Jane Fonda had supper at Candice Bergen’s house with Tab Hunter and his partner Allan R Glaser, Ted Danson and his wife Mary Steenburgen and Diane Keaton, and I am blown away by all the talent in that one photo. The amount of Emmys, Oscars and Golden Globes between them in astonishing, so you have to wonder what they were talking about as they broke bread. Who cares? It is just so cool to see them in a group like that.
BTW we do not why they were all hanging out, so let us just imagine that they are talking about working on a project together. How amazing would that be?
It has been 30 years since Three Men and a Baby came out and for the most part it is a forgotten classic. Sorry, but it is true. Now what the sweet film is remembered for is an urban legend. After the movie came out, people noticed there was a boy standing behind Ted Danson in the window. But there was no one else in the scene beside Danson, Celeste Holm and the baby, so who was it? For decades people have assumed it was a ghost and the myth has been kept alive about the dead kid.
What is the truth? Yesterday on The Tonight Show, Jimmy Fallon wanted to find out what the dealio was from one of the movie’s three men Tom Selleck. The Blue Bloods’ handsome star explained that he heard a rumor that a boy died in the house where they filmed the movie. Only problem is, they filmed on a soundstage. What did Magnum PI come up with as what he think he really happened? He believes there was a lifesize poster that fell by the window and no one noticed. Turns out he was right. The NBC late night show called Disney and they sent a photo of Danson standing with a lifesize poster of himself that looks just like the boy in the background. When faced with the truth, Selleck retorted back to it being a ghost! Which is exactly how I feel.
Talking about hidden truths about the movie, Selleck revealed another one during his interview. In the movie poster, he is seen with wet stains on his clothes near where he is holding the baby. Turns out it is really the infant’s pee on him. He told Fallon, Annie Leibovitz, who was the photographer, notice the wet stains on him and told him not to change. Making his expression the most realistic he has ever been in anything he has ever done.
There is one more rumor about the franchise he also confirmed and denied. For years, there have been rumors they are working on a third movie, Three Men and a Bride. Yes, Selleck has heard about it, but no, no one has ever called him to tell him it is a go. With the movie about the celebrate its 30th anniversary, it is time to do it. Let’s hope they do it because it just what Hollywood needs these days!
