Not sure I’d call it a “cheat,” but I’ll be somewhat disappointed if it simply turns out that that’s what gets them into the Good Place. It’s kind of what they’re setting us up to expect; therefore I fully expect that expectation to be subverted at some point.
I was looking forward to the sloth as well; however, I imagine that they/she just couldn’t trust her to keep it together in the sloth’s presence and be able to carry on with any scene.
Just to make explicit the reason for the sloth reference for those who don’t know, Kristen Bell, the actress who plays Eleanor Shellstrop, is obsessed with sloths, to the point where her husband arranged for one to be at her 31st birthday party. (I first heard about this on the public radio program Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me, but she also described it on Ellen DeGeneres’s talk show.)
Also, how does a sloth run away from you?
What an awesome episode. Michael McKean, of course, killed it as Doug Forsett. And we’re starting to get serious hints that something is serious wrong with the points system to begin with.
Plus, a bar fight!
And the Scoop family!
Well, sure. Look there’s exactly one person afawk in the neutral place, and she is pretty nasty. Now, Eleanor and Jason were bad People. But Chidi and Tahani were just imperfect. But They are better than Mindy. (Altho there is some odd things about Mindy, according to wiki “a former corporate lawyer and cocaine addict who one day came up with the idea of a foundation to help people but was killed while on the way to implement the idea. Because of this, her fate in the afterlife became unclear, leading to the creation of the Medium Place as a compromise between the two Places.”)Hmm.
Anyway the points system is kinda weird, and certainly not based on Christianity.
Starting to? As soon as it became clear the rules Micheal gave really were the rules, and not something Michael made up to make sure Eleanore couldn’t possibly believe she belonged in the Good Place, it was obvious the system was rotten.
Episode: “Don’t Let the Good Life Pass You By”
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That was a fun episode. The Calvin Ball-esque Jackson style Pool was hilarious. The fight seen was fun.
What other show could include a discussion of the problems with utilitarianism and a bar brawl in the same episode?
As a Calgarian I have to let you all know there is no “Calgary Times Examiner”. As for the existence of the Puking Moose . . . I won’t rule it out. Looked like it could have been out in Bragg Creek, though.
That was fun.
Doug Forcette is living his life solely based on the point system to get into the afterlife. He is doing everything to get the reward of being in the good place. Does he not violate the doctrine of moral dessert? He is only being a good person to get the reward and to not be tortured.
That was a fun episode, I thought the season got off to a bit of a slow start, but have really been enjoying the show since the episode with Jason and Dougy Doug.
If all the characters are being killed again to go to Janet’s void, does that mean another memory reset? I hope not, they are getting old.
Any chance the Janet that exited the portal wasn’t the same Janet that went in?
At the very end (during the final credits) Bad Janet is among the second wave of demons that prompt Good Janet to pull everyone into her void.
From Chuck McGill to Doug Forcett…quite a change of pace for Michael McKean. (Or is it? :D)
Well, they were both kind of living off the grid. Sure beats being Lenny though.
Yep, presumably he’s not really earning any point because his motivation is corrupt, which is great irony. Remember he only got 92% right so apparently he missed the part about motivation. I really hope there’s not another memory reset. Maybe this time they could just restore everyone’s memories instead?
Well there are multiple Janets, good & bad, but I still think that was our Janet. Bad Janets are incapable of mascaraing random Good Janets, let aloned an envolved self-aware Janet.
Where do you get your ideas on the limitations of makeup-application skills of Bad Janets?
[On snails:] “I don’t name them in case they already have a name they prefer.”
Oh, man, the writing on this show is choice.
Maybe from the episode where Michael was seen in a flashback trying to use a bad Janet to act as a good one and she melted?