#everything is bonzer!

[greyhoundone]

[pass-the-bechdel]

The Good Place s03e01 ‘Everything is Bonzer!’

Does it pass the Bechdel Test?

Yes, three times.

How many female characters (with names and lines) are there?

Eight (34.78% of cast).

How many male characters (with names and lines) are there?

Fifteen.

Positive Content Rating:

Three.

General Episode Quality:

Not great.

MORE INFO (and potential spoilers) UNDER THE CUT:

Passing the Bechdel:

Eleanor meets Simone. Tahani meets Eleanor. Eleanor offers Tahani her pull-out couch.

Female characters:

Janet.

Tahani Al-Jamil.

K. Ramirez.

Eleanor Shellstrop.

Simone Garnett.

Kamilah Al-Jamil.

Lil’ Peanut.

Gen.

Male characters:

Michael.

Jeff.

Chidi Anagonye.

Pillboi.

Jason Mendoza.

Uzo.

Henry.

Shawn.

Glenn.

Todd.

Steve.

Reginald.

Colby.

Donkey Doug.

Trevor.

OTHER NOTES:

Jeff the doorman is a frog guy and that’s how you know he’s very sensible.

I...kinda hate them for handwaving Chidi’s accent with ‘I went to American schools’. Really? Chidi ‘born in Nigeria and raised in Senegal speaking French as my mother tongue’ Anagonye, also happened to spend so much time in American schools that he speaks English with a flawless American accent? Really? I mean, they already seem to have failed to allow his cultural origins to have any presence whatsoever in his personality/preferences/whatever, him saying that he’s from Senegal is just words, really, and the one way it SHOULD be in evidence in the real world is that he should be restored to his fucking accent. They made that decision for his lack of accent in the afterlife to be a translation thing for Eleanor’s ears, they declared it as such in the first episode of the show. They obviously had not planned to put themselves in this position and they’re too chicken to get an accent going now. I hate it. Other cultures are not just exotic labels, show.

Eleanor says ‘jif’, and that’s why she belongs in the Bad Place.

speaking of accents, Simone’s so-called ‘Australian’ accent makes me want to grater my brain. 

Michael’s Australian accent is also atrocious, in a uniquely awful way that I’ve never heard a bad Aussie accent be before, but at least that seems to be deliberate, so it’s less insulting. 

The joy of the doorman when he receives his frog thermos is everything.

Ok, so, I raved about accents a bit there, but that’s a piece of a larger problem I have with the beginning of this season, which is the fact that it feels completely fake. Nothing in it makes sense, there’s no logic, stuff just happens in a weird bubble and for some reason they’re pretending it’s Australia even though the setting is bizarrely un-Australian. As an Australian, I’m telling you. Nothing about this is right. First time around, I spent these early episodes uneasily waiting for the twist where this was just a simulation anyway and the characters had not actually been restored to the real world, but it never came. We’re supposed to take this seriously, and I just can’t. I hate this ‘real world’ thing, it’s terrible and unconvincing and I don’t feel it serves the purpose it is intended to serve. But, I’m getting ahead of myself. They put this together badly.

[magicalpostdeer]

Janet: I've been running simulations on what their kids will be like. One of them is hot enough to be on "The Bachelor." And smart enough to never go on "The Bachelor."

[grammatically-incoherent]

#relatable content

[ashleybenlove]

I like that Judge Hydrogen, an immortal being, spends all her time bingewatching tv shows.

[prettylittlearrowfangirl]

There was genuinely a moment where I thought Jason would actually go to community college. But that’s not Jason. Not at all. The Jacksonville Swamp Stomp Dance Competition is far better. 

[flameclaw22]

Michael when Judge Gen walks in the room after he’s been sneaking around

[faeriesareforreal]

Whenever anything in life goes wrong, I’ll think of the Doorman with his frog travel mug, and all will be right in the world again.