Ch. 20: D’Arcy Carden, Actress | Dean Holland, Director

The Good Place: The Podcast

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Michael Schur, Tv Production, Behind The Scenes, Philosophy, Parks And Rec, Tv & Film, Nbc, Comedy Writing, Entertainment Comedy, Kristen Bell, Tv, Manny Jacinto, Brooklyn Nine-nine, Mike Schur, William Jackson Harper, The Good Place, Marc Evan Jackson, Ted Danson, Jameela Jamil, Good Place, D'arcy Carden, Writing, Good Place Podcast, Acting, Stories, Entertainment, After Shows, Comedy, Tv Writing

4.9 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2018

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Actress D’Arcy Carden (Janet) and director Dean Holland shoot the shirt with host Marc Evan Jackson. They talk about how Mike Schur has created an impressively complex TV show, how the writing is tailored to the actors and their acting style, what it’s like to direct comedy with Mike Schur, why D’Arcy loves going to work with Kristen Bell, Ted Danson and the rest of the cast and a shirt-ton more funny anecdotes and behind-the-scenes stories.

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0:00.0	Hi there! Welcome to the Good Place, the podcast.
0:06.7	Janet, what's a podcast?
0:08.9	A podcast is a thing humans invented to procrastinate from doing important things,
0:13.6	like actual work or spending time with their families.
0:16.9	Meet! Enjoy this week's episode.
0:19.7	Welcome to the Good Place, the podcast. I'm Mark Evan Jackson. I play Sean.
0:31.0	Today we're talking about chapter 20, season two, episode six, Janet and Michael,
0:34.8	directed by Dean Holland, written by Kate Gerstin, and including guest cast,
0:38.7	Tia Sarkar, Jay Milliamson, and Jason Menzookis.
0:44.9	In a series of flashbacks, Michael steals Janet from the Janet warehouse and slowly develops a friendship with her.
0:49.7	In present day, Michael attempts to discover why Janet is experiencing glitches.
0:53.3	At first, he blames his own lies to her, but then discovers it's due to Janet's own subconscious lies about not loving Jason.
0:59.4	Janet wants Michael to activate her self-destruct mechanism, but he refuses due to their friendship.
1:04.2	Eleanor coaches Janet through her emotions and accidentally inspires Janet to create a reborn boyfriend, Derek.
1:10.4	My guests today are the director of the episode, Dean Holland, and Darcy Carden, who plays Janet.
1:14.7	Darcy and Dean, welcome, everything is great.
1:17.1	Everything is wonderful.
1:18.2	This has gone so poorly already. Just so poorly.
1:22.0	Hi, Mark.
1:23.5	Hello.
1:24.3	Welcome you guys. Everything is great. I wish that were true.
1:27.9	We opened this in a flashback that sort of predates the good place.
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