The Good Place

• Title: The Good Place – The Trolley Problem
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Possibly better than any other show currently on television, The Good Place knows how to write itself out of potential issues and provide twists to what is a very simple premise with (presumably) limited story options. The end of the First Season dropped the bomb shell of where Eleanor (Kristen Bell) and her friends are truly living while Season Two has kept viewers on their toes with the demons trying (and failing) to hoodwink the damned foursome again. Michael‘s (Ted Danson) decision to team-up with the group was another such twist, the fallout of which provides some of the best moments of the season so far.

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• Title: The Good Place – Dance Dance Resolution / Team Cockroach
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The reveal that Eleanor (Kristen Bell) and her companions were actually being tortured in Hell rather than living an idyllic afterlife in Heaven left several questions about where the show would go in its Second Season. Michael‘s (Ted Danson) inability to get the results he wants after simply resetting the world and getting a do-over leads directly into “Dance Dance Resolution” where we see cherry-picked versions of more than 280 resets of The Good Place, none of which are able to stop Eleanor and her friends from discovering the truth. With the demons going on strike and fighting against this confusing new form of torture, and various changes of each iteration, Michael bows to the demands of Vicky (Tiya Sircar) while secretly trying to make a pact with Eleanor and her friends and get all of them (him included) out of this predicament without having everyone end up in a more traditional version of Hell when all of this comes crashing down.

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• Title: The Good Place – …Someone Like Me as a Member
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Deciding not to immediately turn over his Eleanor (Kristen Bell) to the visitors from the Bad Place, Michael (Ted Danson) enlists the help of Tahani (Jameela Jamil) to distract and mollify his guests until a proper trade can be worked out. Meanwhile, Chidi (William Jackson Harper) begins to get to know the other Eleanor (Tiya Sircar) which only makes our “fake” Eleanor feel more out of place. These discussions also allow us a glimpse of what Eleanor’s life in the Bad Place would consist of and why neither woman would willingly want to go there.

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