Unless they’re reading a human-published, imperfectly translated, English-language edition of the book.

Personally, I feel like the hiatus kinda worked in this episode’s favor: it’d been long enough since I’d seen Michael that it was a lot easier to doubt his true allegiances. Gotta say, it’s pretty heartwarming to have him genuinely on our heroes’ side now, in his own weird demonic way.

This is either the best or second best sitcom where Ted Danson is the focal point of a group of lost souls finding meaning in their camaraderie. I can’t decide.

Sadly, Jason died just before his beloved Jags finally made the playoffs. and didn’t even have to have any rule changes! well, not a lot anyway.

Was tonight’s the first episode that we saw an overhead layout? That was my first thought when I saw it, but the comparison had never occurred to me before.

I can’t decide who I like more: Good Janet, Bad Janet, or Stoned (Good) Janet.

It’s really not hard to imagine a more conventional version of this show that’s still good, but not as transcending brilliant as what we got. Season 1 is all Eleanor trying to be a better person. S1 ending cliffhanger is that Jianyu is actually Jason Mendoza! S2 is all about trying to keep Jason under wraps, S2 ending…

This seems like exactly the sort of correct but pedantic quibble that Chidi himself would make. Watch out; this kind of thinking might land you in the Bad Place.

I wouldn’t put it past this show to reveal that there are actually “Demon Cops” and Jason was actually onto something all along. Because Jason has a habit of being right in odd ways.

That was good, but the best Jason moment from this episode, hands-down, was him attempting to follow through on the knock-knock joke.

It’s crazy.  There is genuinely no status quo here.

It occurs to me that I should make a gimmick account for Bad Janet before someone else beats me to it.

“I never thought I’d be the one to say it, but this is getting out of hand. I think we gotta go to the cops.”

That’s too bad. She did a great changeup from the selfless Real Eleanor to the absolutely shameless Vicky.

I mean clearly it’s pretty obvious. I could see a pitch for the Good Place being “The Prisoner but a half hour comedy” or something like that.

Then it’s time for me to start watching Alex, Inc.

Am I the only one who sees the Neighborhood as being very heavily influenced by The Village from The Prisoner? Has Michael Schur or- well, anyone- confirmed any influence?

I hope that’s not it for Vicky on this show

The fact that Michael was just whispering ‘something something Vicki something something” over and over again killed me.