Category Archives: The Good Place

The Good Place – Season 2, Episode 7 (Janet and Michael)

As the episode title would suggest, this episode is all about Janet and Michael. The episode kicks off with a flashback to the start of Janet and Michael’s relationship. Michael steals Janet from a ‘Janet Warehouse’ and brings her to Shawn and Val. Val asks Michael how he managed to steal her and he informs her that as she is

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The Good Place – Season 2, Episode 6 (The Trolley Problem)

This episode is all about the Trolley Problem and change. The episode kicks off with Chidi teaching the gang the Trolley Problem thought experiment – you are driving a trolley when the brakes fail, on the track ahead of you there are five workmen that you will run over. You can steer to another track but on that track there

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The Good Place – Season 2, Episode 5 (Existential Crisis)

This episode focuses on the inevitability of death, even with immortal beings. The episode kicks off with Michael in a meeting with Vicky, providing her with a lengthy memo of torture ideas at her request, only for her to reject them because the memo was too long. The episode then cuts to Michael divulging Vicky’s plan to torture Tahani by

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The Good Place – Season 2, Episode 4 (Team Cockroach)

The previous episode ended with Michael asking the gang to join forces with him, this episode focuses on the gang debating whether or not to trust and join forces with him. The episode picks up exactly where we were left off where Michael reveals that Vicky is blackmailing him and that she plans on operating her version of the neighbourhood

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The Good Place – Season 2, Episode 3 (Dance Dance Resolution)

In the previous episode we saw things through the eyes of the main characters, in this episode we are given the chance to see things through the eyes of the supporting players. The previous episode ended with Michael kicking off attempt #3 of his experiment, with Shawn believing he was still on his second attempt. This episode explores the eventual

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The Good Place – Season 2 Premiere (Everything is Great!) [Two-Parter]

The job of a season premiere is to establish story arcs and subplots for the season and this premiere did its job perfectly. In fact, I think this was one of the best season premieres I’ve ever seen due to what I feel was flawless writing. I felt the writers’ choice to have the premiere have a non-linear structure by

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The Good Place – Season 1 Finale (Michael’s Gambit)

The job of a season finale is to wrap up the season’s story arcs and subplots, and establish new story arcs and subplots for the next season. This finale did its job perfectly by completing turning the whole season on its head with a plot twist that will completely affect how the next season is written. The episode kicks off

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The Good Place – Season 1, Episode 12 (Mindy St. Claire)

This episode was honestly my favourite one of the season. The episode kicks off with a flashback to Eleanor’s final moments and death – shopping in the supermarket, being rude to a cashier, then being rude to an environmental charity worker outside of the store who calls her out on her behaviour, then picking up the bottle of margarita mix

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The Good Place – Season 1, Episode 11 (What’s My Motivation)

This episode provides more insight into the points system. The episode kicks off with Both Eleanors, Chidi and Tahani in Michael’s office. Tahani explains that her idea to help Eleanor stay, which she came up with in the previous episode, is to apply the points system formula to Eleanor’s actions in the Good Place to raise her points total, if

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The Good Place – Season 1, Episode 10 (Chidi’s Choice)

The episode picks up from where we were left off, with Jason and Tahani in Jason’s “meditation room”. Jason tells Tahani who he is and not tell Michael about his real identity. We then cut to Chidi, both Eleanors and Bambadjan (a human rights advocate) in Michael’s office preparing to argue Eleanor’s case for staying in the Good Place whilst

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