Who's real? Who's fake? Who's a demon and at risk for turning into blue goo? Are we still in The Bad Place? These are the questions I'm asking myself after Thursday's episode of The Good Place. Almost a week later and I still don't have any of the answers. SPOILER ALERT: IF YOU, FOR WHATEVER REASON, HAVEN'T WATCHED THE LATEST EPISODE OF THE GOOD PLACE ENTITLED "TINKER, TAILOR, DEMON, SPY" THEN I HAVE NO OTHER CHOICE BUT TO TURN YOU INTO DEMON GOO. I DON'T MAKE THE RULES. THAT'S JUST HOW IT IS. The episode opens with Team Cockroach playing a very lively game of Pictionary with their four test subjects in an attempt to get them to learn more about one another. Team one is Tahani, Jianyu/Jason, and John. Team two is comprised of Chidi, Simone, and (ugh) Brent. John accurately guesses Tahani's drawing of Mariah Carey's butterfly tattoo, and it comes to life in a very cartoon fashion and flies away. Chidi has less luck, trying his best to sketch Simone's childhood stuffed horse but when it comes to life, it's quite terrifying. Game is over. Eleanor, Jason, and Tahani want to keep brainstorming new ideas for how to get their experiments to bond with one another and grow, but Michael thinks they should take a break. Eleanor is thrown off, and even more thrown off when Glenn the demon shows up ("If you're a devil, how come you're not wearing Prada?") to insist that Michael is not Michael at all; it's Vicky in a Michael suit. And honestly, this could make sense. Michael has been acting strange. Remember a couple week's ago when I pointed out that him admitting to Eleanor that he faked his panic attack seemed in-genuine? There was also that part at the end of last season when Shawn literally told Michael that he was going to switch him out with Vicky in a Michael suit and would erase everyone's memory if he told them. Eleanor is reasonably conflicted. Should she believe Glenn the demon, or Michael...who is also a demon? She asks Tahani and Jason for advice and it goes terribly, on multiple occasions. Derek appears ('cause we're in the Medium Place at Mindy's) and shows off his weird sex toys. Michael has no way to prove he's not lying, and is caught in a bunch of other lies as well. He tells Eleanor that they were merely inspirational lies, like Instagram. It isn't until Janet creates a demon lie detector and shoots it at Glenn (who, for his own credit, is telling the Soul Squad this because he thinks Shawn is too mean to him) that we get some answers. The lie detector doesn't work necessarily, it just blows Glenn up into blue goo that covers all of our favorite friends and Mindy's carpet. Worried that poor Glenn is dead? Don't be. Demons don't die, says Michael. They just ressurect into the normal demon cycle. Ya know, creepy little girl, teenage boy, etc. Eleanor wants Michael to take his Michael suit off to prove it's not Vicky underneath, but he refuses. He doesn't want them to see him for what he really is, a 6,000 foot tall fire squid. Literally everyone wants to see exactly what that looks like. We were robbed! Eleanor takes a break and eats nachos with Chidi, spending one on one time with her soulmate. She's worried that if she goes to the judge that the experiment will have to start over, and with new subjects. It would subside all of the work they have done thus far. Jason talks to Janet (while she is cleaning up Glenn goo) and lets her know that even though they are broken up, he's always there if she needs to talk. What he says, more specifically is, "I'm here for you, girl." But here's the kick...she doesn't say, "Not a girl." Which is what Janet ALWAYS says. She's not a girl, she's not a robot. Just before Michael makes the decision to blow himself up and into goo with Janet's lie detector, Jason makes the connection. That's not Janet. That's bad Janet in a good Janet suit! *GASP* Now, none of my family members believed that I figured this out for myself but I just want to say here loud and proud that I DID. I am as smart as Jason Mendoza...wait. Turns out, bad Janet made the switcheroo back when Linda turned out to be that ripped punching demon. That means that Janet never broke up with Jason, it was bad Janet that told him Blake Bortles is no longer on the Jacksonville Jaguars, and it was also bad Janet who shit talked Mamma Mia 2: Here We Go Again! It all makes sense! Eleanor takes Michael willing to turn into goo as proof that he's being truthful, and Michael and Jason aboard the train to go rescue poor good Janet from The Bad Place. Everyone is pretty unsure of what's gonna happen next. Personally, I hope we get a second Jason and Janet wedding following their reunion. What are your thoughts? Is this really Michael? Did you know it was bad Janet? Any grand theories for the remainder of the final season? Tell me in the comments! XO, Em
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