The Good Place
A Girl from Arizona Part 2
TV Flash files “A Girl from Arizona Part 2” as hour 41 of 52 in the TV Flash guide — The Good Place (2016–2020) on NBC, season 4, episode 2, aired 2019-10-03, 30 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S04E02: listed hour 41 of 52 in the The Good Place guide, hour 2 of 13 in season 4. It aired 2019-10-03 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “A Girl from Arizona” (S04E01). Next is “Chillaxing” (S04E03).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Eleanor, Michael, Janet and Tahani have their hands full when the new residents begin to show their true colors. Jason receives some unsettling news.
Viewer FAQ
Where does A Girl from Arizona Part 2 sit in the The Good Place guide?
S04E02 is listed hour 41 of 52 — hour 2 of 13 in season 4, season 4 episode 2.
When did The Good Place S04E02 air?
A Girl from Arizona Part 2 aired 2019-10-03 and is listed at 30 minutes.
Do I need a philosophy background?
No. The show teaches its ethical ideas through plot and jokes. Chidi is the seminar; Eleanor is the rest of us.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Selfish Eleanor wakes in a heavenly planned community that is not what it seems. Michael Schur's NBC sitcom turns ethics thought experiments into popcorn — Bell, Danson, Chidi's indecision, Janet's everything — then actually sticks a four-season landing. Broadcast comedy that got smarter and stranger, and made 'what we owe to each other' a living-room phrase.
Selfish Eleanor Shellstrop wakes in a heavenly planned community that is not what it seems, and the first joke is a lie the architecture will spend four seasons confessing. Michael Schur's NBC series (September 19, 2016) made ethics thought experiments into popcorn. Kristen Bell and Ted Danson lead a soul squad — William Jackson Harper's Chidi, Jameela Jamil, Manny Jacinto, D'Arcy Carden's Janet — through reboots and moral growth. Jokes cite philosophers; feelings still land. The work is the reset: a sitcom…
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- Jameela Jamil as Tahani Al-Jamil
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