Existential Crisis

Episode aired Oct 12, 2017
TV-PG
22m

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7.8/10

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Kristen Bell and William Jackson Harper in The Good Place (2016)

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Michael experiences an existential crisis; Tahani throws a dinner party; Eleanor reflects on her childhood.Michael experiences an existential crisis; Tahani throws a dinner party; Eleanor reflects on her childhood.Michael experiences an existential crisis; Tahani throws a dinner party; Eleanor reflects on her childhood.

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IMDb RATING

7.8/10

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Trivia
When Michael presents his torture plans to Vicky, she complains and directs him that "From now on, make all your memos one page, max, with pictures." This is a reference to then-President Donald Trump. There were media reports that Trump wouldn't read memos and wanted them to be only one page and contain pictures.

Quotes
Eleanor Shellstrop: I don't know if what I'm going to say will hurt or help, but screw it. Do you know what's really happening right now? You're learning what it is like to be human. All humans are aware of death. So...
[Shrugs shoulders]
Eleanor Shellstrop: We're all a little bit sad, all the time. That's just the deal.
Michael: Sounds like a crappy deal.
Eleanor Shellstrop: Well, yeah, it is, but we don't get offered any other ones. And if you try to ignore your sadness, it just ends up leaking out of you anyway. I've been there - everybody's been there. So don't fight it. And in the words of a very wise Bed, Bath and Beyond employee I once knew, "Go ahead and cry all you want, but you're going to have to pay for that toilet plunger".

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1/10

Animal cruelty

I was quite enjoying the show until I saw this episode, but I was pretty shocked in this one. It shows a lot of animal cruelty (a brown bear in chains and a monkey on a rope), I stopped watching the show after seeing that. It's disgusting the way they are treated, poor souls.

The directors should know better than to use animals for entertainment like that, as they should be in the wild or in a sanctuary, not on a film set. Also, it encourages people to have wild animals as pets and normalises it, which is an incredibly cruel industry which should be banned across the globe with harsher penalties.