[Editor’s Note: The following contains spoilers from “The Good Place” Season 3, Episode 10, “Janet(s).”]“The Good Place” creator Mike Schur describes Thursday’s episode, in which D’Arcy Carden plays multiple versions of her character Janet, as “a form of psychological torture.” In a desperate move to save the lives of demon Michael (Ted Danson) and their human friends Eleanor (Kristen Bell), Chidi (William Jackson Harper), Tahani (Jameela Jamil), and Jason (Manny Jacinto), Janet whisks them into her boundless Void.
Michael arrives unscathed, but the mortals aren’t so lucky: Each of them look exactly like Janet.“The reason to do this isn’t to have D’Arcy run around and goof off as her castmates,” said Schur after a screening of the episode.
“[Eleanor is] literally asking herself, ‘Who am I? What version of me am I right now?’ and so is [Chidi].
This is something philosophers talk about.”This season, Eleanor realized that in one of the many timelines in The Bad Place,
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