I’ve never seen Orphan Black. Thank you very much for the explanation.

i am sure this was mostly just a lighthearted jab and was not intended to belittle what d’arcy carden has done this episode.

Commenters have been talking about the point system being arbirtary or being too difficult and the Good Place being nearly impossible to get into since Season One. There are a couple folks who have been referenced (or seemingly referenced) as getting into the Good Place but it’s never been established definitively…

for context: the girl in the gif is tatiana maslany who starred in orphan black as a bunch of clones and has done the whole “doing a whole scene with several people just by yourself” for 5 seasons overall.. though i am sure this was mostly just a lighthearted jab and was not intended to belittle was d’arcy carden has…

So you were being silly? Fair enough.  I didn’t pick up on it.

I hope you’re being silly. The screen-time with Carden playing four humans and the ‘real’ Janet means producing five times as much of air-worthy material. When we see Janet with ‘accounting’ Janet, that means Carden has to do two times the work. Throw in the time for rehearsal to nail the other actors mannerisms, set-u…

It is a rather beautiful journey that Michael’s been on. From torturer to ally and friend to crusader. He’s trying so hard! 

So where’s Lincoln then if the Bad Place got every US President but Lincoln, but nobody’s got into the Good Place for over 400 years?

I absolutely think the system has been flawed from the beginning. It’s not the The Bad Place is tampering, it’s that that points system has always been too strict.

The Emmys have been hacked by the Bad Place since 1497.

That a good point, and I guess I can only respond that while both shows are genre-re-defining and ambitious in their own way, I am giving the edge to TGP only because it’s being ambitious in terms of the scope of its story in a way that I can’t even think of too many dramatic series attempting. It concerns the actual…

Can you out-ambition Community? It was literally working in different mediums and genres every week. They were essentially doing what this episode did in terms of technical complication, except they were doing it every single week (this is only for seasons 2 and 3.) But The Good Place is way more cohesive and…

(Accidently posted this in another thread - reposting here as this is where I intended to post it originally)

I need to rewatch, but I thought I saw Amy Poehler as one of Eleanor’s lost identity apparitions.

Carden just NAILED everyone’s cadences and body language. She was pretty much comedic fucking genius tonight. Amazing. 

The fact that D'Arcy Carden has never won, or even been nominated, for her work as Janet makes me so forking angry. What she does on TGP is like nothing I've ever seen.

D’Arcy Carden did so much damn work here. Loved all the Janets. 

At first Grace and Frankie absolutely wanted the other to leave the beach house so she could have it to herself.

Pretty sure both women WANTED to be at the beach house. I certainly would.

Nah, I'm 19 and find it hysterical