In the second half of the ‘Good Place’ season premiere, a heart-to-heart with Michael turns Eleanor into a problem-solving pro. Read Alan Sepinwall’s recap
, “A Girl From Arizona, Part Two,” coming up just as soon as I leave H&M wearing more underpants than I had on when I came in…of last week’s episode, I noted that it must have begun life as a one-hour story before being split in two, which meant we’d spend the final season’s first two weeks in table-setting mode.
— and nicely steers us out of the calamity that occupied the season to this point, and into Eleanor finding ways to fix both Brent and Simone. A subtle costuming touch: After Michael’s pep talk, Eleanor ditches the suits and goes back to more casual sweaters and blouses. She tried dressing like Michael as well as acting like him, and then he reminded her that she’s great just being her. So her clothes in the episode’s second half reflect that.
Both prove especially tough nuts to crack, for very different reasons. Since Brent’s apparently here as Eleanor’s nemesis, it makes sense that she would try a variation of the same nightmare scenario that Michael unleashed on her at the start of the series, with everyone being dressed in Princeton colors instead of Michigan’s.
To illustrate the point of how fundamentally good Eleanor has become, she performs a big piece of self-sacrifice to deal with the Simone problem: by telling Chidi that he and Simone are soul mates. What was once a way for Michael to torture his human guinea pigs is used here to encourage Chidi to reel Simone in from her belief that this is all a hallucination of her comatose mind.
When “Part One” ended on a muted note at the train station, I cited the lack of a cliffhanger as more evidence that NBC had split a one-hour episode in two after the fact. But “Part Two” is also free of the show’s trademark surprise endings, instead concluding on the amusing note of Jason almost leaving Eleanor hanging for her “dat ash!” joke. This time, though, it doesn’t feel off that there’s not a clear To Be Continued element.
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