Loveday Writing

Gwendolyn gives them a quick tour of the correspondence centre, which includes informing them that the front door is the door to the Good Place but no human can go through it. Michael also finds a phone that will directly connect him to the Good Place Committee.

Eleanor tries to open the door by breaking things and then picking the lock to no avail. Chidi tries to cheer her up by having an impromptu romantic date with her and then dressing up as a mail man. Eleanor breaks down over her feelings and fear of the relationship ending, Chidi tells her not to worry about the future and focus on the present. They end up having sex in a closet.

Meanwhile, Tahani, Janet and Jason are cleaning up the correspondence centre. Jason confides in Tahani that he doesn’t know how to feel after seeing the video Janet made of their previous relationship. Tahani tells him to talk to Janet about it, but she refuses to talk about it as it will keep her from maintaining her cover. Tahani later makes a ‘death did us part’ certificate, pointing out that as her and Jason are dead they are no longer legally married, but this doesn’t make Janet and Jason feel better. Tahani apologises to Janet, telling she loves them both and wants them to be happy.

Meanwhile, Michael tells the Committee about the situation and his concerns that the Bad Place have interfered with the points system. They take his concerns seriously and tell him that they’ll investigate but it will be a slow process, taking 400 years just to select the investigators before the investigation actually starts.

Afterwards when Tahani tells him that her efforts to help Janet and Jason kept backfiring as she accidentally made their situation worse, she remarks that there are so many unintended consequences to well-intentioned actions. This leads to Michael having an epiphany – the Bad Place haven’t been tampering with the points system because they don’t have to, every day the world gets a little more complicated, and being a good person gets a little harder. Unintended consequences to all actions and decisions leads to point losses for ostensibly good acts.

Just as Gwendolyn becomes suspicious of Michael, Janet and the gang, she tells them that she’ll have to turn them in to The Judge, only for Michael to tell her that he already has. The Doorman appears and tells Michael that The Judge has agreed to his terms and they’ll meet her at the IHOP (Interdimensional Hole of Pancakes) for a meeting. The final moments of the episode show Michael, Janet and the gang going through the portal.

Stray Observations:

-The Good Place smells like what made people the happiest.

-When stabbing was invented 200,000 years earlier, there was a dip in the number of people getting into the Good Place as everyone was stabbing each other.

Best one liners and interactions:

• “Oh no, you’re crying. I assume it’s because you’re happy. Or horny, is this a horny cry?” (Chidi to Eleanor)
• “There is another quote first spoken by a very wise, very attractive, occasionally very sweaty philosopher, ‘you gotta try’.” (Chidi to Eleanor on their relationship)
• “Why are you crying?” “I don’t know, I’m British, I never cry.” (Janet-Tahani)
• “Jason, you seem thoughtful and that concerns me.” (Tahani to Jason)
• “I feel pitied and put on the spot…so that’s fun.” (Janet to Tahani)
• “The tears taste like the nacho cheese from my favourite movie theatre, that’s a weird incentive to keep crying.” (Eleanor to Chidi)