It’s a Janet party! The Good Place’s midseason finale positively ripples with creative energy…and birthday cake
This The Good Place review contains spoilers.
The Good Place Season 3 Episode 9
Welp. That was fun!
The Good Place loves to break itself. In some sense it’s not that dissimilar to the philosophical practices it likes to examine. A philosopher or any kind of social scientist comes up with an idea, radical or intuitive, and then throws it to the roving horde of peer review to be torn apart and broken down.
I imagine the Good Place writers’ room operates under a similar principle: come up with an idea and then let the group explode it in a firework of narrative and thematic confetti. Break it to perfect pieces. Rarely has The Good Place broken itself to a more satisfying effect than it does in this midseason finale, “Janet(s).”
I’m a Janet!
This The Good Place review contains spoilers.
The Good Place Season 3 Episode 9
Welp. That was fun!
The Good Place loves to break itself. In some sense it’s not that dissimilar to the philosophical practices it likes to examine. A philosopher or any kind of social scientist comes up with an idea, radical or intuitive, and then throws it to the roving horde of peer review to be torn apart and broken down.
I imagine the Good Place writers’ room operates under a similar principle: come up with an idea and then let the group explode it in a firework of narrative and thematic confetti. Break it to perfect pieces. Rarely has The Good Place broken itself to a more satisfying effect than it does in this midseason finale, “Janet(s).”
I’m a Janet!
- 12/7/2018
- Den of Geek
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