“I Get a Kick Out of You” - Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga “Drivers License” - Olivia Rodrigo Pop Duo/Group Performance “Right on Time” - Brandi Carlile, Dave Cobb, Phil Hanseroth & Tim Hanseroth, songwriters (Brandi Carlile) “Peaches” - Louis Bell, Justin Bieber, Giveon Dezmann Evans, Bernard Harvey, Felisha “Fury” King, Matthew Sean Leon, Luis Manuel Martinez Jr., Aaron Simmonds, Ashton Simmonds, Andrew Wotman & Keavan Yazdani, songwriters (Justin Bieber Featuring Daniel Caesar & Giveon) “Montero (Call Me by Your Name)” - Denzel Baptiste, David Biral, Omer Fedi, Montero Hill & Roy Lenzo, songwriters (Lil Nas X) “Leave the Door Open” - Brandon Anderson, Christopher Brody Brown, Dernst Emile II & Bruno Mars, songwriters (Silk Sonic) Powell II, Solána Rowe & David Sprecher, songwriters (Doja Cat Featuring SZA) “Kiss Me More” - Rogét Chahayed, Amala Zandile Dlamini, Lukasz Gottwald, Carter Lang, Gerard A. “Happier Than Ever” - Billie Eilish O’Connell & Finneas O’Connell, songwriters (Billie Eilish) “Fight for You” - Dernst Emile II, H.E.R. “Drivers License” - Daniel Nigro & Olivia Rodrigo, songwriters (Olivia Rodrigo) “A Beautiful Noise” - Ruby Amanfu, Brandi Carlile, Brandy Clark, Alicia Keys, Hillary Lindsey, Lori McKenna, Linda Perry & Hailey Whitters, songwriters (Alicia Keys & Brandi Carlile) Danson’s real life honey, Mary Steenburgen, also popped up as his guitar teacher.“Bad Habits” - Fred Gibson, Johnny McDaid & Ed Sheeran, songwriters (Ed Sheeran) She gave him some frantic Earth advice–keep your blood pressure down now that you have blood never get the rental car insurance–and then Michael was on Earth, feeding Chinese food to his Great Dane (named Jason) and burning himself on microwave containers. This fire squid and not-girl were like a father and daughter all along. Jumpy Legs to Jeff, Ted Danson and D’Arcy Carden had the best goodbye of them all. Before the former demon went down to Earth, having first gifted Mr. Then she turned her good heart and sharp mind onto Michael, who wanted his own peaceful exit. First, she helped crazy Mindy head out of her dentist’s office of a house and into the architect’s hands. (Shout out to William Jackson Harper, who immediately popped up in an Old Spice commercial looking single and ready to mingle.)īut Eleanor herself wasn’t ready. She made him promise to leave her before she woke he left on his pillow a hunka-hunka Chidi calendar. If you leave, then I’m alone here.”Įleanor, of course, released Chidi. “You don’t have to go! You don’t have to leave me. When he confessed on the lovers’ bridge that his time had also come, Kristen Bell brought all of Eleanor’s childhood wounds and fear of abandonment to the surface. Eleanor scrambled to pull him back, taking him to Athens and, by accident, Paris.
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His light was fading, though he was reading The DaVinci Code for pleasure. With her friends making graceful exits one by one, Eleanor grasped tighter to her beloved Chidi.
So she became a humble intern to the architects instead, gifted a peacock bow tie by her forever mentor Michael.Īnd then the emotional resonance of an already moving hour kicked up a few hundred. After crossing one final entry off her bucket list (“problematically objectifying Eleanor’), she realized that wanted neither ceaseless good vibes nor the final archway. First, Nick Offerman complimented the smooth bevel of her chair then her parents arrived, looking upon her and her sister with acceptance and joy. It was a comedy of great depth and tragedy, equal parts sublime and absurd and unsettling and reassuring. What does it mean to be good? Is trying to be good enough? What matters? And for the love of Maya Rudolph, what waits for us at the end of this world? The show’s genius has always been its ability to effortlessly integrate elements like Chidi’s gorgeous, soothing hearkening to Eastern traditional thought (“the wave returns to the ocean, where it came from, and where it’s supposed to be”) with Eleanor being served a stiff one by a panda bear butler in the same finale. “Nothing more human than that.”įor four seasons, Mike Schur and his deep bench of profound feelers and thinkers have wrestled with the biggest questions. “I won’t know what’s going to happen after I die,” marveled Michael, after Eleanor finagled a deal with The Judge to let him return to earth and live out a human existence. This last episode of The Good Place was a balm of light and clarity in the ugly last days of the impeachment trial, when so many of us are still so weirdly raw and consumed by the incomprehensible death of a basketball giant and a beautiful child who so clearly loved her dad. It was a perfect hour of television-just what we needed, this week in particular.