Chapter 39: Pandemonium is the 13th and final episode of Season 3 of The Good Place.
Plot[]
Eleanor helps Michael introduce the first new human to the Neighborhood and Chidi discovers a complication.
Summary[]
The first of the four human test subjects arrives, and Michael is too upset from his call with Shawn to deal with the situation, so Eleanor steps in and takes over to pose as the Architect of the neighborhood. She welcomes the new resident, John, a seemingly ordinary, if flamboyant man, and introduces Michael as her assistant. She gives him the "Welcome to the Good Place" speech and gives him a tour around the neighborhood before letting him go off to explore it further for himself.
As John explores the neighborhood, he runs into Tahani, and it turns out they knew each other. John was the author of a gossip blog that wrote a lot of disparaging things about Tahani and generally served as a source of annoyance at best and misery at worst in Tahani's life. Tahani relays this to the others, and they realize that the Bad Place picked out people that would be bad for the experiment and could potentially torture the Soul Squad themselves. This is confirmed when the next new human to arrives is Simone, Chidi's ex-girlfriend.
Eleanor and the others contact Judge Gen and Shawn and say this isn't fair, asserting that having the human test subjects be people who knew the four who are really running the experiment will mess the experiment up. Shawn is unrepentant, and Gen says it's technically not against the rules, but she'll allow Michael to erase Simone's memories of Chidi so it's not a problem.
After the call is over, Chidi says he won't be able to work with Simone as he should, as their past would always be in his mind, but Michael just says to ignore her for now. Eleanor gives Simone the "Welcome" speech and shows her the neighborhood. Simone is pleased by what she sees, but believes that it's probably just an intense hallucination caused by her dying brain releasing chemicals before she officially truly dies and ceases to exist.
Eleanor and the others assemble in the office, and Chidi's problem is serious. He knows he won't be able to act normally around Simone without possibly jeopardizing the experiment. He asserts that the only solution is for Michael to erase his memories starting from his death, which means he'll forget all of his friends of the afterlife, including his love for Eleanor. This is not a welcome message to anyone, but nobody else can think of an alternative and Chidi had thought about this for a long time, so he's confident in his decision.
Later that night, Eleanor and Chidi spend the evening together reminiscing about the evolution of their relationship, with Michael showing them a montage of their romantic moments in his fake Good Place neighborhood. Chidi reassures a tearful Eleanor that things will work out and he has faith in her, promising her that once this is over, they can be free to be together for however long eternity goes.
The next day, Michael has reset Chidi's memory to just after he died, and he wakes up in the waiting room. Eleanor opens the door and invites him in to welcome him to the "Good Place".
Cast[]
- Kristen Bell as Eleanor Shellstrop
- William Jackson Harper as Chidi Anagonye
- Jameela Jamil as Tahani Al-Jamil
- D'Arcy Carden as Janet
- Manny Jacinto as Jason Mendoza
- and Ted Danson as Michael
Recurring Cast
Guest Starring
Trivia[]
- Pandæmonium is the capital of Hell in John Milton's Paradise Lost. The name literally means "all demons", but the word has come to mean "complete chaos".
- The definition of pandemonium represents the confusing mess that is the human experience, and is brought up when Janet comforts Eleanor.
- Paradise Lost is referenced as well by Eleanor adding that she was tricked into reading it by Chidi who said that the devil was her type.
- As "Pandemonium" literally means "all the demons", it can also be interpreted as the personal demons that The Bad Place sends for each of the four humans.