#janet(s)

[ashleybenlove]

"Not one single Golden Girl?"

Good thing the Soul Squad fixed the Good Place years ago so that when Betty White died, she immediately went to The Good Place.

[hitchell-mope]

It’s about damn time

[hitchell-mope]

Did D’Arcy win an award for this? Because she should of.

[thethirdwheel404]

this cut moment from Janet(s) [The Good Place]

[pass-the-bechdel]

The Good Place s03e09 ‘Janet(s)’

Does it pass the Bechdel Test?

Yes, once.

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

Four (40% of cast).

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

Six.

Positive Content Rating:

Three.

General Episode Quality:

Good fun!

MORE INFO (and potential spoilers) UNDER THE CUT:

Passing the Bechdel:

Eleanor sasses Tahani about her outfit.

Female characters:

Janet.

Eleanor Shellstrop.

Tahani Al-Jamil.

Neutral Janet.

Male characters:

Michael.

Chidi Anagonye.

Jason Mendoza.

Neil.

Matt.

Pillboi.

OTHER NOTES:

How dare they suggest a Lord of the Rings themed wedding is a bad thing. 

Eleanor remarks upon how bangable she finds Janet, and I am officially ok with this show’s approach to her bisexuality now. Not for this one comment alone (going in for a simulation-kiss with Simone earlier in the season was also a great help), I just feel like they’ve made the jump from ‘implied but open to interpretation’ to ‘definitely a real thing even if we aren’t seeing her actually hook up with women on screen’. It’s an important distinction, else you end up with a whole lot of queerbait.

Ah, it’s so much more fun when the characters on this show are dead and in the afterlife realm(s) somewhere. I can’t believe we wasted so much of this season on NOT doing this kind of thing. Urgh. I mean, the characters in Janet’s void were more gimmick than plot (and the deliberations on the nature of the self, perfunctory and dull), but I’m always here for Michael and Janet adventures.

P.s. I performed the wedding ceremony for a friend a couple of years ago, and while they did not have a Lord of the Rings themed wedding, the bride did walk down the aisle to ‘Concerning Hobbits’, and it was really, really beautiful. So there.

[lowqualityscreenshots]

[prettylittlearrowfangirl]

All I could think when Chidi’s girlfriend Allesandra invoked Hume was Janet-Chidi saying “Let’s talk about David Hume!” in “Janet(s)” last season.

(more specifically, D’Arcy Carden imitating that on The Good Place: The Podcast for that particular episode)

[elyalovi]

-Mejor modo de robar protagonismo: “Janet(s)" (#TheGoodPlace) 

Por lo general D’Arcy Carden como Janet, una especie de inteligencia sobrenatural, se roba el show en “The Good Place”, pero en el episodio “Janet(s)” la sublevo al nivel “dios” de la comedia. Lo espectacular del capítulo no es la producción y los efectos para que todas las Janets interactúen entre sí, sino la actuación A1 de Carden haciendo de Eleanor, Chidi, Thani, Jason y de Eleanor pretendiendo ser Jason. Básicamente D’Arcy Carden interpretó a todos los personajes con las característica clásicas representativas de los actores principales y lo hizo de tal manera que los espectadores pueden saber quién es quién con tan solo verla y escucharla. “The Good Place” tiene como costumbre sorprendernos al saltar de escenario en escenario, el buen lugar, el mal lugar, el lugar intermedio pero con “Janet(s)” nos mostró su escenario más loco; el interior de Janet.

->Lo mejor de la temporada 2018-2019