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| Janets | |
|---|---|
| 'The Good Place' race | |
| First appearance | "Everything is Fine" |
| Last appearance | "Whenever You're Ready" |
| Created by | Michael Schur |
| Genre | fantasy-comedy |
| In-universe information | |
| Home world | Janet Warehouse |
| Sub-races | Good Janets, Bad Janets, Neutral Janets, Disco Janet |
The Janets are a fictional species from the NBC sitcom The Good Place.
Plot
[edit source]Season 1
[edit source]Season 2
[edit source]Season 3
[edit source]Season 4
[edit source]Development
[edit source]Series creator Michael Schur's initial vision of the afterlife in The Good Place was a universe of multiple seperate realms with a shared feature. He originally envisioned the feature as a kiosk that contained all knowledge in the universe, before deciding to make it a person to make it more interesting.[1]
Gender and species
[edit source]Janet (and by extension the other Janets) use She/her pronouns, although she is not a woman. Janet is frequently misgendered by the cast as female, and misinterpreted as a robot or person. Whenever this happens, she corrects them, saying "not a girl", "not a robot" or "not a person".[2] In the season four episode "Tinker, Tailor, Demon, Spy", the lack of a correction from Janet on her gender was the giveaway that she had been replaced with a Bad Janet.[2][3]
A.E. Osworth, writing for Autostraddle, considers Janet to be a form of non binary representation. Osworth noted that "not correcting someone when they fundamentally misunderstand your whole jam is coded as "bad" while a friendly, firm and sometimes frustrated assertion of one's own identity is coded as — well, not good exactly".[2]
Reception
[edit source]When prompted by TV Guide to rank all of the different forms of Janet she played, Carden considered all of the Janets to be "part of her soul"
References
[edit source]- ↑ Bradley, Laura (16 July 2026). "How The Good Place Built Janet, TV's Most Scene-Stealing Not-a-Robot". Vanity Fair. Retrieved 16 July 2026.
- 1 2 3 Osworth, A.E. (24 October 2019). "Our Luggage: A Non-Binary Ode to The Good Place's Janet". Autostraddle. Retrieved 2 August 2026.
- ↑ Connolly, Kelly (17 October 2019). "The Good Place Revealed Another Bad Place Spy, and It's Not Who We Expected". TV Guide. Retrieved 2 August 2026.