Category Archives: Season 3

The Good Place – Season 3 Finale (Pandemonium)

The job of a season finale is to conclude the season’s story arcs and establish new story arcs for the next season. This finale did its job perfectly. The episode picks up from where we were left off. While Eleanor tries to calm Michael down and reassure him, she ends up having to step in by welcoming John and posing

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The Good Place – Season 3, Episode 12 (Chidi Sees the Time-Knife)

The job of a penultimate episode is to provide a springboard for the season finale, this episode perfectly did its job. The episode kicks off with Michael, Janet and the gang making their way to the IHOP – Interdimensional Hole of Pancakes. Michael explains to them that the IHOP is the crossroads of all dimensions, like Grand Central Station of

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The Good Place – Season 3, Episode 11 (The Book of Dougs)

In this episode, Michael eventually finds another piece to his puzzle but not before hitting a few roadblocks along the way. The episode picks up from where we were left off, in the Good Place post office where Michael, Janet and the gang arrived. Janet blows up the shoot they came through so no-one can follow them, and Michael tells

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The Good Place – Season 3, Episode 10 (Janet[s])

In this episode we have Michael and Janet investigate the problem with the points system further, we see a new part of the afterlife, and we have the gang explore Janet’s void. The episode kicks off with Michael, Janet and the gang inside Janet’s void. Everyone quickly discovers that being inside Janet’s void has at least one side effect –

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The Good Place – Season 3, Episode 9 (Don’t Let the Good Life Pass You By)

This episode focuses on Michael’s proposed blueprint for humanity and surprises us with an action scene. The episode kicks off with a man waking up, getting out of bed, putting a music tape in a cassette player, getting dressed, making tea, checking his solar panels, pulling radishes out of the ground and putting them in jars to donate to a

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The Good Place – Season 3, Episode 8 (The Worst Possible Use of Free Will)

This episode still has the Soul Squad split up, however the focus is only on two of its members – Michael and Eleanor. While they await the arrival of the others from Budapest, Michael and Eleanor go to a public library in Arizona because according to Eleanor, they’re always deserted. Eleanor insists that Michael give her, her memories of the

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The Good Place – Season 3, Episode 7 (A Fractured Inheritance)

This episode focuses on healing familial relationships. As the gang is split in two groups again, I’ll be reviewing this episode by group. Michael and Eleanor – The episode kicks off with Eleanor and Michael in Nevada, sitting in a car outside Donna’s house. Michael tells her that Donna faked her death to avoid paying $30,000 for a date with

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The Good Place – Season 3, Episode 6 (The Ballad of Donkey Doug)

This episode has the Soul Squad on its first mission – helping Donkey Doug and Pillboi become better people. Tahani, Jason and Michael go to Jacksonville to help Donkey Doug and Pillboi, while Chidi, Eleanor and Janet stay behind in Australia. Tahani, Jason and Michael decide to help Donkey Doug, who is revealed to be Jason’s father, by getting him

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The Good Place – Season 3, Episode 5 (Jeremy Bearimy)

This episode picks up from where we were left off, with the gang asking Michael and Janet questions about the portal and who they are, especially after they recognise Michael. When Michael asks Janet how  to get out the situation, she tells him there’s very little wiggle room to lie to them. Michael ends up telling the gang that they

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The Good Place – Season 3, Episode 4 (The Snowplow)

This episode has us meet another Hemsworth brother and the gang getting underway with the study. The episode picks up with Michael and Janet arriving on Earth, fleeing The Judge. While they manage to block The Judge from taking them from Earth, she uses the key to call them and let them know that if they come back, she will

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