Saturday, March 16, 2019

The Beauty of Retrospect, March Actress Edition: Jameela Jamil

I originally featured British actress Jameela Jamil in October 2016, shortly after the premiere of the NBC series The Good Place," in which Ms. Jamil stars with Kristen Bell and Ted Danson.


Ms. Jamil is still on "The Good Place," having done little else since.  My main reason for featuring her again is not to offer an update on her career but on her sitcom.  I mentioned in earlier posts that "That Good Place" is about ethically compromised people who try to stay in what they think is the Good Place and avoid the Bad Place. At the close of the first season in 2017, however, Ted Danson's Michael is forced to admit that the four people in his charge have been in The Bad Place all along, meant to torture each other emotionally and psychologically forever.

Why didn't I say this earlier?  Er, well, I don't actually watch this show . . .

Anyway, the next two seasons are about Michael's efforts to ensure that the four people in his control keep torturing each other while they resist him.  "The Good Place" is popular enough to ensure that Jameela Jamil, as Tahani, will remain a presence on American television for some time to come.

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