18 Best TV Moments Of 2018

11. Barroom Brawl - The Good Place

The Good Place
NBC

The Good Place usually astounds with its incredible character-driven comedy and feel-good moral philosophising, but for one scene in Season 3 it went all-out action, and it was every bit as incredible as you'd hope.

From Jason getting to show off his Molotov cocktail skills, to Tahani hitting a Bad Place demon over the head with a pool cue, the fight is an absolute blast, but the show is stolen, as is often the case, by D'Arcy Carden's Janet.

Just a week before her astonishing performance in Janet(s), here we get a demon-butt-kicking, barnstorming sequence as she beats the crap out of the Bad Place baddies, with techniques ranging from simple knock-down scuffles to some crazily inventive use of portals. As ever, the show's effects work, sharp writing, and ensemble mesh together to create sheer joy.

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NCTJ-qualified journalist. Most definitely not a racing driver. Drink too much tea; eat too much peanut butter; watch too much TV. Sadly only the latter paying off so far. A mix of wise-old man in a young man's body with a child-like wonder about him and a great otherworldly sensibility.