YMMV / The Good Place S 4 E 11 "Mondays, Am I Right?"

• Genius Bonus:
  • The metaphor Michael gives about how the centuries of work he has done (torturing humans to helping them, finding proof of the cracks in the system and teaching the Bad Place architects) was like continuously rolling a rock up a hill only for it to continuously fall back down and he had to start over. When Vicky shows up and effortlessly teaches the other architects, something Michael struggled to do, Michael describes it as her effortlessly taking that rock to its intended destination and robbing Michael of his purpose in life. This is identical to Albert Camus' The Myth of Sisyphus, where Camus uses Sisyphus's punishment in Tartarus - to roll a boulder up a hill, only for it fall back down and having to start over again - as a metaphor for life's absurdity and how we as humans should take joy in that absurdity.
  • Even better, when Michael suffered his existential crisis in "Existential Crisis", Chidi went to get Camus's works to help him to properly comprehend this crisis. This means that Michael read it and now relates with Sisyphus, a damned soul being tortured in Hell.
• Spoiled by the Format: The episode's ending seems like a wonderful, perfect, well-earned conclusion for Team Cockroach. However, there are three more left in the season. It's not to say that things will certainly go awry, but it's guaranteed that there are still big things to occur or be addressed. The show has continually proven how much can be done in just a few episodes.

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