She logically concludes that Shawn has picked four subjects with personal connections to the gang in order to properly torture them. Tahani learns that John was a gossip columnist on Earth who used to relentlessly torment her with fake news items (don’t worry, his targets were rich and high-status and he was telling truth to power, so it’s okay). Naturally, everything goes south very quickly. Eleanor tries to buck him up in time, but when that fails, she poses as the architect and introduces John (Brandon Scott Jones) to “The Good Place.” Despite having no memory of the 800-plus iterations of Michael’s initial Bad Place experiment, Eleanor falls into the role without a hitch, and the rest of the gang follows her lead in order to keep up the experiment.

“Pandemonium” picks up right where “Chidi Sees the Time-Knife” left off: Michael is incapacitated by a panic attack just when he’s supposed to welcome his first new human to the new Judge- and Shawn-approved neighborhood experiment. This is, unfortunately, the problem that plagues “Pandemonium,” a season finale that entirely hinges on the audience’s investment in a certain relationship and hits yet another reset button in thoroughly underwhelming fashion. However, sometimes the show’s sentimental streak can veer into saccharine territory, especially when certain dramatic beats are unearned. This is a perfectly valid and admirable worldview, one that gives The Good Place an emotional foundation to which it can always return whenever things threaten to fly off the handle. It’s a show that sincerely preaches the wisdom that we are all capable of so much more than we ever thought possible. Amid the fantastical rigmarole and ethical dialectics and space-time warps, The Good Place is a love letter to the strength of the human spirit in the face of never-ending chaos. This is, in part, why people have responded to The Good Place. He believes that people can, with enough hard work and determination, become positives forces of good in the world. He believes in the power of friendship and the existence of everlasting love.

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