The Good Place "Chapter 8 & 9: Most Improved Player" & "....Someone Like Me as a Member (Fall Finale)"

"Chapter 8: Most Improved Player"

After telling Michael the truth at the end of the previous episode, Eleanor must face the consequences and see if she belongs in the Good Place.

The episode starts out in the same opening as the pilot did, but in this case Eleanor was waiting for Michael to talk about what this serious situation of her mistakenly being here. When Michael calls her in, they discuss about who she really is but Eleanor tells him that he got the name and her death right expect the rest of it.

Michael ask Janet to get her file but since she's still rebooting after being killed, she keeps handing out cactus and pointing out to different objects. Even playing with the ferns like a cat was hilarious. It was later after Michael interviewed Tahani and Jianyu, Janet finally got Eleanor's file and instead of bring in Chidi in Michael calls back Eleanor to go over.

While going over her file, Michael sees something good in her file of a time when she took her niece to the mall, at times because her mom wasn't being  good mother, to get charro dogs, a hot dog between two charros wrapped around with slim jim sounds heaven.  But when Michael came across about t-shirts in her file, Eleanor didn't want to talk about that but more about the charro dogs.

Michael told her to tell the story on the t-shirts. It happened when she was living in an apartment with two other friends and she asked one of them to borrow a dress but she declined to offer it to her, so Eleanor went in her room to try the dress but when it came time to zip it, it ripped. So she put it back in it's plastic bag and back in the closet. The next day her friend puts her dress on and is in shocked about the rip and sues the dry cleaners for it, taking them out of business, but that wasn't the end of it as she finally got the the t-shirt part which was her idea but her other roommate took the idea and made the t-shirts that has "Dress Bitch" on them, for which the people on the internet were calling her.

After hearing that, Michael calls Trevor from the bad place and tells them that they have the Eleanor they are looking for and ask to pick her up. When Trevor comes, played by Adam Scott, he tries to cause hell for Michael as in playing mean jokes like flaming snakes in a can of nuts.

Ready to take her to the bad place, Michael ask Trevor to give Eleanor some time to say some goodbyes. After telling Chidi, Tahani and Jianyu goodbyes, she gets on the train, for which was hot inside. Chidi talks to Michael about Eleanor and opens up about how he was helping her become a better person, but Michael doesn't give MVP to anyone and that's when Chidi yelled out, "maybe there should be."

Michael rushes to stop the train and pulls Eleanor out of it until they figured out what really was going on. But Trevor pulls out his card and tells Michael that he has the other Eleanor, for which she comes out from the train and says hello, while Eleanor, Michael and the rest were in shocked.

This was another really good episode. There were a lot of hilarious moments from Janet and the cactus to even Trevor and his bull shirts attitude, for which Adam Scott is amazing and also amazed of the truth cube that Michael has when he used it on Eleanor. Who wouldn't want one of those? And even there were moments like when Eleanor was being questioned by Michael and saying goodbye that there were times I felt emotional in a way that I hoped she would stay (not in a crying boohoo way or grabbing the issue kind of moment). The writing was so good along with the actors too, everyone playing a good part in this episode. The cast was MVP of this episode. Overall, I give this episode a 9/10.

"....Someone Like Me as a Member"

Will she stay or will she go? I know that kind of sounds corny but it's the only thing I could come up after watching this episode.

Michael and Trevor figured out how both Eleanors got mixed up. They were both at the same place at the same second that they died: Real Eleanor was trying to save Fake Eleanor from the truck but got hit. And also that when they went to the good place and bad place that they don't have files on either one of them with faces.

After figuring it out, Trevor wants to leave and take the fake Eleanor to the bad place, but Michael doesn't want that to happen and tries to make a deal with him. So Micheal offers Trevor and his gang to stay until they figure out what to do, while that goes on fake Eleanor and Chidi shows Trevor and real Eleanor her home. Finally we learn that there are stairs to the bedroom, which has a button to opens and it pops out.

Later the four of them go out for dinner and while learning about each other fake Eleanor notice how close Chidi and real Eleanor has gotten quickly. With those two getting along it makes fake Eleanor jealous and probably thinking that she's going to the bad place. She lets those two go and checkout the art while her and Trevor talk and while drunk she accepts on going.

While that was playing out, Michael tries to entertain with Trevor's gang and need Tahani's help him with the negative attitudes. He offers them music and had a dance party, but it went south when they took over the music machine and put in racist comments from famous people, like President Nixon.

The next morning fake Eleanor wakes up with a horrible hangover as Chidi explains that the people from the bad place asked for the hangover filter to be turned off. Chidi tells her that Michael set up a meeting soon and they can walk together, but she tries to distance from him again. We see flashbacks from the episode of her dodging people of joining a group, paying for group tickets or being a team player at work. But Chidi tells her that he'll always be there for her because they're both in it together and that brings a smile to her face and something that she's probably never felt before.

At the meeting, Trevor tells Michael that fake Eleanor decides to leave but when it was her turn to speak, she tells Trevor that she wants to stay. Trevor wasn't pleased but tells Michael that he'll get "Sean" in on this and that turned a corner for Michael and beg him not to go to "Sean (the one that makes the final decision)." But Trevor doesn't like "Sean" either and ask Michael to make a deal and that deal was nothing and tells him and his friend "to get the fork out of here." BOOM!!

This was another outstanding episode that deliveries so well on both humor side and emotional side. As much as we seen Eleanor's past and present, I believe that she deserves to be in the Good Place. She tries to hide her feelings of jealously while watching Chidi and real Eleanor connecting so well. Those flashbacks reminds me of me back when I was in grade school and high school but I wasn't a speaking person with anyone.

Both Kristen Bell and Ted Danson was outstanding once again. I couldn't get enough of him trying to be nice to the people from the bad place or even hearing him tell Trevor "to get the fork out of his place." That one gave me goosebumps with joy. Also they left a really nice cliffhanger when Jianyu dis caught by Tahani as she was in his secret room and figures that he is not a monk. I can't wait to see what happens next. Overall, I give this episode a 9.5/10.

You can catch The Good Place when it returns Thursday, Jan. 5th at 8:30/7:30c on NBC.