Me neither! I totally thought Michael had a sneaky look on his face at the end during his entire convo with Eleanor, like he didn’t seem all that convinced of what she had to say. I was super nervous he was returning to his office to enact some twisted evil plan on our foursome.

Was I the only one who thought that when Eleanor and Michael spoke at the end that she had revealed to him the key to making her give up and possibly creating a successful reboot? Shawn showing up at the end made me reconsider, but I’m still not totally sold on a trying-to-improve Michael.

This is real. I once found an old bandana at a garage sale and I could walk again.

The neutral pocket dimension beneath a shapeless time void just happened to be unguarded? Michael can blame it on good being stupid all he wants, but my theory is The Good Place knows exactly what Michael is up to and is letting him do it to see if he can become a better not person.

ughh I totally thought the Janet-Eleanor convo was going to end with Eleanor being Janet’s rebound

So, are we to assume that Barry got that phrase from the future when he was freshly out of the Speed Force and all disoriented?

I really love what they’re doing this season showing patriarchy as bad for everybody. I felt bad for Nathaniel who is so imprisoned by what he has been taught is a “real” man (his dad was a monster.) Same with that guy who has a terrible communication problem in his marriage.

I think the key to getting Michael to respond to these morality lessons will be for him to realize that the point system as well as the entire concept of the Good Place and the Bad Place that he’s worked with his entire eternal life may not be perfect.

That’s rather unfair to the Count of Monte Christo. He always included a certain amount of dramatic irony and poetic justice in his revenge schemes, using people’s own flaws against them. He makes sure to hoist them on their own petards.

I read both apologies exactly the same way. The first felt like “this is what I really want to say, but I don’t have the confidence to just say it...” where as the second one made me immediately think he was playing Chidi. Part of the brilliance of the show, and that bit of acting, is that we really don’t know which…

One thing I thought was interesting was when Michael made Chidi the doctor and had him decide to sacrifice Eleanor to save the five patients or not, Chidi said that as a doctor, he had taken the Hippocratic Oath to do no harm and would therefore not kill Eleanor. This was easy because the moral choice was no longer…

But on the other hand, learning about ethics combined with a motivation to apply it DID help Eleanor become a better person in a previous iteration.

I don’t buy it. He’d think of acting apologetic as the bribe he has to pay to appease Chidi.

I loved Rene asking Special Agent Junk Chain if she always knew she wanted to be an FBI agent, since he thought his daughter could do that, with what we know (I think) to be sincerity but she could only take as mockery.

Rip has all of time and space in which to find a barber, and that’s the haircut he chooses? Yikes.

Okay I totally buy that Sara’s assassin training wouldn’t carry over to a real life job and she’d be miserable, or that Jax wouldn’t care for a downgrade to being a regular mechanic instead of a time-ship mechanic. But damn, Ray’s situation is totally unbelievable. Sure, Felicity ran PalmerTech into the ground while…

I really like this show. I wasn’t sure how it could move along plot-wise, since everyone was getting rebooted anyway, and they’re all trapped there, and it seems no matter what everyone is just destined for some form of Bad Place, but now it feels like they have a direction.

I wonder if, were Eleanor not purposely playing along this time, she would have stood up and said, “Oh, THIS is the bad place!” once Vicky started singing.

I bet she was tempted! I would have been.

All generalizations are false.

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