May 25, 2022
“Janet(s)” (December 6, 2018)
Spoiler warning: We totally spoil The Good Place, so if you have
not seen it and want to go in fresh, go do that!
It seems weird that The Good Place was
a show on a broadcast network at all, much less one that ran for
four seasons and gave viewers so much to think about. Perhaps one
of the more surprising aspects was D’Arcy Carden’s Janet, who rose
above “Busty Alexa” status to become one of the more interesting
characters. Janet is not nonbinary, but as five-timer
Emelie Bataglia points out, Janet can work as metaphor
for the nonbinary experience. In fact, there's a lot thats
nonbinary about The Good Place in general.
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