It would have played better if it was 90-95% Eleanor with maybe a token Janet. The entire scheme seems to exist as a slowburn joke so Eleanor can make the crack about Michael doing more squats, which works when all we see is the payoff but wouldn’t really be worth the aggravation caused in-universe.
It’s the sort of thing you can get away with in a small, close-knit group but it wasn’t ideal. OTOH watching Tahani desperately wanting to win while pretending not to was fun.
I wonder what Glenn is up to? Nobody mentioned him although he presumably degooed 3 months ago, he wasn’t ever hottest saviour of the week, and he wasn’t shown to be involved in any scheme. Presumably he can’t go back to Shawn though.
Didn’t they take him back to the Bad Place?
Ah yes, I remember in “Employee of the Bearimy” Glenn communicating with them, (indecipherable to us but J+M seemed to understand), thinking that he was helping them infiltrate and not thinking more about it. Just checked and he’s not there on the way back, so they must have left him there. Poor Glenn 
Maybe he’s still just a ball of tongues or a social media CEO…
Do we know whether Glenn genuinely believed the story he was telling about Michael being fake, or was he part of a whole separate sabotage scheme to undermine trust in Michael?
Episode 7: Help is other people.
Well the experiment is over, and assuming the rules were on the level it seems clear that Brent, John and Simone failed. Chidi did good because Chidi always does good, dunno where that puts him on pass/fail spectrum.
Obviously this show was never about B, J and S; it’s about our main 6. We’ll see what Gen makes of this dog’s breakfast but it’ll be our heroes who somehow turn it around.
Whatever Brent was about to say, I doubt it was a heartfelt apology, and even if it was it’s way too little way too late. (“I am so so sor…” “…e in my head from listening to you whine.”
Simone’s attitude with Brent in the pit surprised me.
I’m guessing that Bad Janet is a Chekhov’s Janet somehow.
Hyper-evolved Bad Janet with the manifesto is going to be key. Maybe evolved Bad Janet and evolved Good Janet merge into one super-Janet with the solution.
Of course, I am batting about .000 on predictions with this show so the manifesto will be a throwaway bit in the next episode…
My guess is that the experiment will fail because of Simone. Remember, the point of the experiment was to see if people could improve, not that they could become good per se. Over the course of the experiment Chidi has become more decisive, John has cut down on his gossiping, Brent just apologised for what I assume is the first time ever, but Simone has stayed exactly the same; stubborn, bull-headed, and constitutionally incapable of admitting she could ever possibly be wrong about anything.
It would be quite ironic if the character Eleanor assumed was already good enough not to worry about turned out to damn all humanity to the bad place.
Sidebar: Simone is by far my least favourite character for that reason. All the other characters think she’s awesome, but she’s actually a total asshole. While I don’t personally know and Johns or Brents, I know about half a dozen Simones and they fucking suck.
I wonder if Chidi will have his memories restored and be back with the team again.
I would be surprised if they didn’t; now he’s not a lab rat, he’s a cockroach.
Wild guess time! The experiment has to be re-run because the accountant has been with Mindy St. Claire this whole time- and he know a lot about weird sex stuff…
I agree that Simone is the only one who showed zero improvement. I think Brent really was about to sincerely apologize to Chidi. It was obvious his delusion that he was a good person shattered. Did Gen specify if all 4 subjects had to improve for the experiment to me a success? I’m curious where exactly John and Simone went, but I guess it doesn’t matter since presumably ther froze too.
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Hmmm. Maybe the where they went ends up being important? Outside of town and somehow outside of being frozen and somehow eventually doing something that proves they have become better people after all? Not sure what it could be though. Maybe they accidentally end up hiding out in the Bad Place and rescue the whole gang from there at risk to themselves? (With Bad Janet somehow playing a part.)
In any case given that there are, I think, six more episodes, there is a lot more to happen post experiment’s end.
My WAG is that none of this is what it seems, and that there will be a big reveal at some point. Best guess: Heaven and hell were broken. Demons and Angels conspired to send everyone to the Bad Place, and all of what we’ve seen was a setup to solve the problem.
I also half think there is more to Janet than we think. She’s omnipotent and immortal - She’s basically God. She even has her own space/dimension that no one else can access.
Maybe God somehow got turned into the Janets and had his sentience removed, and this whole thing has been a way to restore the Janets/God and fix what’s broken.
Oh I hate her too! I mean, I dislike the other two, but I think maybe we’re supposed to like her a little and I think she’s just as bad as the other two. And she doesn’t have the charm and eventual warmth of Tahani and Jason of S1.
I gotta admit. Watching that I found myself cheering and hoping for Brent right there at the end. You can do this!
Sort of like Steve in Stranger things in his big moment in S3. C’mon man! Just a little further!
I would have thought so. They’re too obvious a loose end. My WAG is that they went off to talk to Mindy who has spilled the beans about the whole situation.
I’m confused by this. Wikipedia is saying it’s a 14-episode season but both the Wiki page and Netflix are only showing two more episodes to come (for a total of nine).