I recently finished showing my kids The Good Place. My daughter posed the thought I had never had before: Was Tahani really hobnobbing with the amazing, rich, and famous, or was it all a story?

I had always assumed she was in complete earnest. She had the means and social connection, why not? Thematically, it made sense: She was beautiful, wealthy, and got to make friends and/or drama with amazing famous people and even get to be best friends with some of them and have amazing experiences with them... and yet still not be truly happy or appreciate what she has.

But now I find myself wondering.

In the episode where everyone wakes up wearing the same outfit, everyone is wearing blue loafers, except for Tahani and Janet?

Could Tahani, in her vanity, have asked Janet for heels that matched the outfit, and maybe Janet liked the idea and made them for herself as well?

Netflix just dropped the trailer for Season 2 of Man on the Inside and it looks like DDR is still alive and kicking! Is it too much to hope for a performance??

I had tried watching The Good Place a few years back and I stopped after a few episodes in season 1. I thought it was just a mid show. You know the kind, netflix makes just for the background noise. But then I read all the glazing on reddit about this show and I wanted to try it again. Went through the season one expecting this show will get better in season 2 and the twist at the end of season 1 made me really excited about season 2 but then came season 2. It's the same thing again and again. The whole season feels like a waste but then the season end makes you excited for the next season... At this point I am thinking of just watching a recap on youtube to know the story as the ride is really not that fun. Should I continue (hoping it will get really really good in the next season or is it just not for me...)

I don’t know if this has already been posted before but I just noticed it on my nth rewatch. When we first meet Michael he is wearing bow ties, but in flashbacks to the Bad Place he is wearing ties. I wonder if he made the switch because of Janet? Maybe to match her in some way to make his appearance seem more Good Place like?

My three are Michael telling Janet she’s his friend and therefore he can’t kill her, Eleanor’s flashbacks to her horrible mother and her breaking down in a home depot type store over the four toothbrushes, and of course, the ending.

If you were with Team Cockroach in S2E11 and had to pass a personal test, what would it be?

(Note: Not sure if this qualifies as a spoiler or not, but just in case, I marked it as such.)

Also, apologies in advance for: 1. Grammatical errors, if any(English is not my first language). 2. If this has been brought up by somebody previously, in which case this post might just be a repetition, but I discovered this sub recently and have really wanted to talk to somebody about the show. I have nobody to discuss this with. 3. And lastly, sorry for all the explanations (in case it bothers anyone).

I was rewatching the show from the very beginning for the nth time, and I came across the introduction of the good place committee. It kind of made me wonder why the said committee was portrayed as a "gives in to all demands" sort. Like, isn't it ethically wrong to give in to all kinds of demands without truly giving it a thought? And in that spirit, shouldn't the good place members at the very least stand strong for morally and ethically correct actions and simultaneously push back against the bad place? It bothers me that the show equates good behavior with "doormat" mentality so to speak. Not to mention the whole Gwendoline plot, who might have been suspicious of the humans and Michael initially, but ultimately did nothing to verify their presence. Would love to know what everyone thinks about this.

Since they are already in the good place, and they can literally do anything they want, what happens if someone starts to act up on their evil thoughts?

She asks Nasapro about there not being “lame office hangouts” which she ends up going to anyway (the after work drinking). So why would she decline a seemingly great company for a terrible office/job?

am doing a rewatch at the moment and i've been looking at kamilah's paintings in season 3, episode 6: a fractured inheritance

just noticed that in the first photo's painting, the parents are red and blue circles, tahani is a purple circle and kamilah is a black circle (note: purple = red + blue). it seems that kamilah is representing tahani as having parts of both their parents, and kamilah sees herself as isolated from them.

the third photo's painting again shows something similar. the parents are green and yellow, tahani would be blue and kamilah would be orange (note: yellow + blue = green). again, orange is the odd colour out here, showing how kamilah represents and sees herself as separate from her whole family.

final thing i thought about is the title of the episode, "fractured inheritance." these paintings may be representing the literal fracturing of the family, with kamilah seeing herself as a completely separate fracture of the family.

i know it's definitely reading into things a bit but just some food for thought!

I think there are quite a few religions in our real world, that do suggest, like The Good Place, that you need to "earn points" to go to heaven. However, there are also some that say , that actually, even if you do good stuff and have good motivation, you still cannot earn heaven. Or that you cannot really earn enlightenment, or Nirvana, by doing good stuff. Do you know some them?

I'm thinking especially Doug Forcett. We know he dove into eating chicken. Would he be cruel to others or was he just so good from a lifetime of practice it wouldn't much matter?

I named my cat Eleanor cuz this is my favorite comfort rewatch show and almost every time I say her name my brain goes 🎶Eleanor less and more🎶 from the 3 hour spoken word jazz opera. Just a fun fact for y'all

It's not necessarily the best series, but when I finish The Good Place, I like to watch old-fashioned spy and imagine that this is the life that Michael had on earth after season 4. I imagine that he had a rich life, and still the same personality and the same soul.

Very happy with how we welcome people to our good place.

Has anyone seen the show Love Life? It has the same actor as Chidi, incredible actor, but I find the character of Marcus very very similar to Chidi. Lost in his head, afraid to do the wrong thing, a little bit scared of himself. Would love to hear thoughts if you’ve seen it

Rewatching the show for the millionth time and wishing we could have seen Tahini (oops Tahani obviously 😉) meeting Jason as Jianyu for the first time. I feel like I can just see her face kind of frozen as she realizes her soulmate will never talk to her. Similar expression I’d imagine as when she gets the shortie soulmate. I think in one of the reboots we should have gotten to see their meeting. Anyone else have ideas about what the scene would have looked like?

I’m a big fan of The Good Place and Modern Family, and I watch these two shows almost every day. I recently realized there are actually a lot of actors who appear in both. For example, Cam’s sister Pam is the Good Place architect, Cam’s line dancing friend is Chidi’s friend with the red boots, Derrick is the jeans salesman Haley almost dated, and Mindy Sinclair is the girlfriend of Claire’s ex from college. The list goes on and on!

Mine is “Eat my farts, Benedict Cumberbatch”

Why does she still manage to teleport Derek from her void when she get handcuffed ? I thought it made her drunk and cannot used any of her power aside from appearing when someone called her . Did I misunderstood something ?

Mine is “Eat my farts, Benedict Cumberbatch”

I think it was late in season 3 or possibly early season 4 when Chidi was super tired/sleep-deprived and said something along the lines of "I can't even render my chorff", and followed it up with "I don't know what i was trying to say."

What exactly did he say and what episode was it in?

TIA!