By that standard, NBC’s The Good Place is a great comedy, and the emotional resonance of its second season was in large part to D’Arcy Carden’s intuitive and multi-faceted portrayal of Janet.
Carden emerged as a fan-favorite early on in The Good Place, thanks to her dry but simultaneously warm performance as the show’s personification of Google.
The Good Place returns for Season 3 on Thursday, Sept. 27 at 8/7c on NBC.
Subtly throughout the second season, Carden added more emotional layers to Janet as the character began to feel things without really knowing it.