The Good Place
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Its Jason, for example, who comes up with this weeks best analogy.
This episode, Help Is Other People, is set in the final hours of the grand Neighborhood experiment.
That strategy is predicated on the idea that time will expire before the comeback is complete.
If Eleanor & Co. dont go big, they may be going home.
(Home in this case being literal hell.)
This isnt the only smart comparison Jason makes in thisGood Place.
Why exactly is Michael hoping that someone will rescue this broccoli toilet?
John initially shrugs Simone off, saying, Who else are they going to talk to?
But then he spills the tea hes been holding for months, and outs Jianyu as Jason.
More secrets come out, in a rush.
And Brent confesses that hes been told hes going to the Best Place.
This last revelation shatters the group … because, cmon.
Theyve all spent a year pretending most of the time that Brents not absolutely terrible.
The guy who once boasted that he was going to fire Janet?ThatBrent?
He tries to help … and then promptly falls into the fiery pit, too.
The closing scenes of thisGood Placechapter are a Hail Mary in more ways than one.
Michaels move is indeed big and bold, coming at the end of this long experiment.
As always, I mean this in a relative way.
The experiment is over now, and the subjects didnt do that great … especially at the end.
We now anxiously await the results, presumably arriving in next weeks episode.
That said, in its final minutes, Help Is Other People has a couple of genuinely cathartic moments.
which is exactly what she and Michael wanted Chidi to realize.
Instead, time runs out before Brent can say hes sorry if indeed hewasgoing to apologize.
Perhapsthisis what the experiment shouldve been along.
Perhaps, as Jason Mendoza well knows, youcanblow up the same thing twice.
