A) I plead entrapment. This show explicitly invites the questioning of ethical issues.

My longstanding theory is that most of the people in the Bad Places end up getting sent to the Good Place eventually. It’s mostly purgatory rather than eternal damnation.

Warning: There are spoilers aplenty in this story. If you aren’t caught up with Riverdale, tred carefully.

I think it’s supposed to be a reflection of the mixed messages we receive about people acting crazy, especially women.

A few tiny details that made this episode even greater and clearly showed that the influence of having female writers/show runners:

Meh, I have no problem calling people out publicly for racist behavior.

Considering that this came out while other things (sexual harassment/assault lawsuits, NDAs, etc.) had been handled privately and nothing happened, I can see why she wouldn’t want more occasions of offensiveness and problematic behavior to be swept under the rug.

Teens are bad.

Wait, Kevin shows up to assist all the cheerleaders clean the graffiti off Pops, and they didn’t give him a matching outfit with short shorts?

UNACCEPTABLE

A powerful white guy was racist as Hell to the young Asian woman and it’s STILL on her to be civil about it? Good Lord.

EVERYONE WHO KNEW AND DIDN’T SPEAK OUT IS COMPLICIT IN HOLLYWOOD’S SYSTEM OF ABUSE

I can’t think of many TV shows that do episodes like this—the “Butterfly Effect” style episode (Scrubs’s “My Butterfly,” Community’s “Remedial Chaos Theory”) is similar, but I would argue that’s a different subgenre, as it focuses on big changes in each iteration of the storyline, whereas “Groundhog Day” stories focus…

Read for comprehension: the first step in solving a problem.

The “Vicky becomes the villain” angle surprised me. I was expecting the opposite situation of her teaming up with the four to take Michael down. I also was hoping she genuinely started to fall in love with Chidi.

Its not like site layout changes have been an improvement here

> This line from early in episode 1 is “The map says the well’s this way, captain,” but the dialogue translates as “jin is the source of the water, the captain told us.” Points for trying?

Of course, the one time the grays would be a benefit it isn’t being used.

Bex Taylor-Klaus would be good, except that she was already in the Arrowverse, and I’m hoping for a crossover at some point. Kiernan Shipka would be my ideal choice, assuming she’s not too busy playing Rachel in my imagined Animorphs adaptation.

What’s a “baby-wearing” party?

Peanuts?