“God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Who will wipe this blood off us? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we need to invent?”

“Okay, that was an insane thing for us to do.”

“The key was Eleanor and Chidi’s connection.”

Bitch Media editors Dahlia Balcazar and Amy Lam have an easy and playful chemistry. They kick off each episode of Backtalk arguing about things like the worst Mark Wahlberg film, yet they’re still able to tackle serious and complicated issues like the #MeToo movement when necessary. This episode finds them discussing…

There are many things that make The Good Place such a consistent and wonderful delight—the cast, the warmth, the relentless willingness to set its premise on fire whenever the plot demands it—but “attention to detail” is right up there at the top of the list. Nowhere was that trait better demonstrated than in the…

Quentin Tarantino is apparently bound and determined to cast basically everybody in his latest film project, the sprawling Once Upon A Time In Hollywood. Just today, Tarantino announced that Al Pacino was signing on to the film’s cast for his first collaboration with the Kill Bill director; that came after a wider…

“Hot diggity dog.”

First off, let’s hear it for the Judge. The fact that Eleanor, Chidi, Jason, and Tahani were going to throw themselves on the mercy of this weirdo universe’s all-seeing arbiter of Good and Bad Place placement set off a flurry of dream casting guessing games. And while the suggestions on my Twitter feed (Amy Poehler…

“Jortles!”

“The real Bad Place was the friends we made along the way?”

“Why is it always the ones you most expect?”

Of all the twists and turns The Good Place has rolled out in a season and a half, this still counts as one of the biggest surprises: The NBC sitcom is the very first acting gig for co-star Jameela Jamil. Having spent the better part of a decade counting down pop hits, quipping on panel shows, and engaging in…

“The best news is, none of this is suspicious.”

So let’s get philosophical.

“He just smoked a big bowl of ennui.”

“But it’s hilarious. Of course, I mean sad.”

“Okay. Take two, folks.”

Look, no sentient being reads a review before watching the thing being reviewed and then complains about spoilers. Still, in the interest of not getting yelled at by a TV-loving rock or something… SPOILERS. Big ones.

“What’s My Motivation” is The Good Place in a rush. It’s tempting to call this episode a table-setter, as Eleanor, Jason, and Janet all seek an abrupt escape at the end of the episode, while Michael, Tahani, Chidi, and Real Eleanor are scrambling to help them. Sure, Michael’s help involves rebooting Janet in order to…

The Good Place left us (all the way back in November!) with a number of cliffhangers to worry about. There’s the coming of the dreaded Sean (or Shawn, Shaun, Siân—we don’t know), the arbiter of all disputes between the Good and Bad Places, who will determine Eleanor’s ultimate fate, and has Ted Danson’s Michael in a…