I can’t believe Chidi is so hung up on Kant. If I was going to pick a single philosopher to live by, Kant wouldn’t be bottom of the list, but he’d be pretty far down there. Moral absolutism has never made sense to me.
I think Michael said that the longest reboot lasted 11 months (the shortest was a “butt reboot”), so they never really aged. Also, they’re dead, so they wouldn’t age anyway, I would assume.
I found it reasonable as he’s about to meet a judge that could decide his fate. I feel like he’s so nervous, he doesn’t want to screw it up at the last minute by doing something so small as lying.
I agree about the lying part, but then he faced the actual dilemna of whether to help torture someone to avoid being tortured himself.
I suspect that Chidi got by in the Good Place with the same strategy he’s using most of this episode—silence, with the occasional ambigiuous remark.
Yeah, Chidi’s inflexibility here seemed somewhat contrived to me, after everything that went down already. I bought it in the first itineration, when Chidi got all tortured about lying to protect Eleanor after she tells him about her true identity, especially since, at the time, he had some reason to fear that lyying…
I don’t have any problems with Dax Shepard, but setting an episode in the actual Bad Place and not bringing back Adam Scott’s bro-demon character merits at least a downgrade to an A- at best.
Him playing a douchey bro demon was the best thing for him though. He plays douchey bros well, just...not anything else.
I can’t believe I’m rooting for a team this weekend to go to the Super Bowl because a dead character loves his quarterback. Go Bortles
I am glad they got the inevitable Dax Shepherd cameo on this show out of the way and it was relatively painless. Him and Kristen Bell casually flirting was pretty cute, I guess.
Megan Amram recently revealed on Twitter that the first few times she heard Jason’s “BORTLES!” rallying cry she didn’t know what it meant, and thought it was just a nonsense word. Tiya Sircar said she didn’t know either and just thought it was an idiotic mispronunciation of “bottles.”
Janet I imagine will save Michael somehow, otherwise she would have gone through the portal with the others.
they definitely won’t forget him. I’m more worried about Michael getting Eternal Shriek’d before they can rescue him.
But these are quibbles, and nitpicking an episode that brought me so much delight and satisfaction seems like the total Bad Place move that would earn me a memorial tableau in the episode’s Museum of Human Misery.
Jason: I’ll be Jake...
and I hope Michael isn’t tortured too badly/Janet gets out.
oh lord I hope Ted Danson doesn’t leave
JORTLES!!