Pandemonium
- Episode aired Jan 24, 2019
- TV-PG
- 22m
Michael's crisis forces Eleanor to assume the title of the neighborhood architect. Tahani makes a discovery about the new humans.Michael's crisis forces Eleanor to assume the title of the neighborhood architect. Tahani makes a discovery about the new humans.Michael's crisis forces Eleanor to assume the title of the neighborhood architect. Tahani makes a discovery about the new humans.
- Simone Garnett
- (as Kirby Howell-Baptiste)
- Hockey Fan
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaIn the video Michael shows Eleanor and Chidi, one of the restaurants in the background is Sushi and the Banshees, a play off the band Siouxsie and the Banshees.
- Quotes
Janet: The more human I become, the less things make sense. But that's part of the fun, right?
Eleanor Shellstrop: What do you mean?
Janet: If there were an answer I could give you to how the universe works, it wouldn't be special. It would just be machinery fulfilling its cosmic design. It would just be a big, dumb food processor. But since nothing seems to make sense, when you find something or someone that does, it's euphoria. In all this randomness and this pandemonium, you and Chidi found each other, and you had a life together. Isn't that remarkable?
Eleanor Shellstrop: [laughs slightly] "Pandemonium" is from "Paradise Lost". Milton called the center of Hell "Pandemonium", meaning "place of all demons". Chidi tricked me into reading "Paradise Lost" by telling me Satan was, and I quote, "my type": a big, mean, bald guy with a goatee. I mean, he wasn't wrong.
Janet: Oh, no, that's very on brand for you.
Eleanor Shellstrop: I guess all I can do is embrace the pandemonium, find happiness in the unique insanity of being here, now.
Janet: We'll do this together. In the words of the man that I love: "I got you, dog."
Eleanor Shellstrop: Thanks, Janet. You know, for a robot, you make a really good girlfriend.
Janet: I'm one out of three of those things... but thank you.
- SoundtracksWe Love You So
Written by Carter Burwell
This show is all about transition; it never languishes in one spot for very long. Right or wrong, I have always felt that the constant evolution is a metaphor for life. Life is change: you may see aspects of what came before in the things that are happening now, but really they are never the same twice. That's a good thing, because change means growth and new opportunities. But it can also be sad and difficult to accept that for new things to grow sometimes old things have to die.
And so as season 3 comes to a close in a semi-familiar setting, I think the show is also bringing something else, something that many fans loved, to a close. Still, the journey of team cockroach isn't complete yet; who knows what new things to love they'll give us next season? I loved this season and I think the writers have earned enough faith to believe that wherever they are headed will be hilarious and worth falling in love with all over again.
- ivko
- Jan 26, 2019