You're right about Darhk and probably Malcolm, although if the show cared Malcolm should want to create a reality where his wife wasn't killed, so he never had a reason to turn to the Darhk side.

OTOH, Janet is technically correct. She can't GO to the Bad Place because she is already there. Just like I can't go to my living room because I'm sitting in it right now.

New subscription prices went up in 2014, so yes it has been years since they raised them. The raise in 2016 was to plans that had been grandfathered in for people who had been with them for years. Since you cancelled and came back, you lost the grandfathering.

God I hope not! That would make Dr. K a monster. Stealing a child that was wanted and loved to make someone else happy is unforgivable.

The fact that they were IN the Bad Place was withheld for the same amount of time, so I don't see the difference.

It certainly seems to be screwy. OTOH, all we know is that there does seem to be a point system (since it was talked about when none of the big 4 were around). The only way points have been defined is by Michael. So some of the screwy sounding bad points may not exist.

Because of Jason's intellectual level, I kind of cut him some slack? There is an argument in the legal system about how severely do you punish people with IQs below a certain level, or the mentally ill. Is Jason intellectually capable of truly understanding the consequences of his choices here? Do people without the…

That's actually an interesting question. One of the ideas behind reincarnation is that our souls hold on to what they learned in this life and are taught about our choices by living another life, even though we don't remember that life. It is possible that Eleanor, Chidi, Tahani and even Jason may hold on to part of…

Or, he may have been telling the truth that Architects don't usually live on site. He could have been "retired" and left Eleanor and Chidi with more guilt for having destroyed a good angel, leading to them falling out and causing each other more pain.

The one fact that actually seems to be accurate is that this is Michael's first creation. He may well have not even been an Architect when Mindy was judged. There is no indication that he is the head honcho of all the Bad Place employees and Architects. Trevor may or may not be a big wig. He might have simply been…

I saw it as a small scale prototype. Once you prove it works you find out the people who will make each other the most miserable and expand your towns to a larger population. They are developing new worlds all the time and this one has the advantage of being able to be a bit of a fun vacation for those who run The Bad…

Exactly. There are ways to outdo your sister, impress your parents, and get to hang with important, or at least well known, people without helping others. See a huge amount of celebrities and politicians.

If Mindy wasn't lying, she said they held her somewhere, unaware of her own existence until they decided what to do with her. If every dead person is in stasis until their point count is added up, Micheal et al. could have sorted through those who were going to the bad place and picked the ones they thought would work…

Totally agree with this. Heck, I lived through the revelations about Abu Graihb and we all know about German concentration camps. it's not hard to get people to torture other people. But TGP has a sunnier, more optimistic view of humanity, I guess.

I don't have a problem with Michael working with just four people, because I saw this more as a small scale prototype. In the meeting they said they had been trying to get people to torture each other for forever and hadn't found a way. Michael came up with this idea. So start with a small set of people, see if it…

I would have no problem with a polyamorous triad. They can all three love each other and complete each other and make a good life together. I mean Tahani has indicated she has romantic feelings for Chidi and at the very least platonic love for Eleanor. Eleanor has expressed love for both Chidi and Tahani. Chidi cares…

I think he supposedly found a loophole that would keep them all there, but in a way that would make them all more tortured. "Real" Eleanor would go back to the bad place. Maybe the human rights lawyer would be sent there as well. Or, to punish Jason, Janet would "be sent to the bad place" and simply be rebooted and…

I have my DVR starting a minute early and going a minute late for most shows, as long as it doesn't cause a conflict. That pretty well covers most problems.

Yes, but giving up the dream of one specific job is a far cry from knowing that you will be forced to stay home until your kids are old enough to stay home by themselves because daycare for three kids is prohibitively expensive.

In the pilot they said his mother made them, so they have been a part of the show from day one. We haven't yet seen his mother except in the flashback about his father, so there is that story to mine.