Is the medium place part of Michael's con?

Yes, it is all part of Michael's con. He said that everything was fake and designed to cause them the most emotional conflict as possible.

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Never say never...

I think it was real because Janet wasn't apart of Michael's plan... unless there's more to be revealed.

-Who is it?
-It's Grandpa. And it sounds like he's gotten into the horseradish again.

At first I want to say it was part of the con, but they left that open enough to interpret it in different ways for the future. I'm going to guess it was a con, and maybe they programmed Janet to know about the place and planted the info, but it would be far more interesting if it wasn't part of it. seems like if they left for the "medium place," Michael could just restart everything and start again any time he wanted to bring them back together.

I don't think so. There have been people in this world, like John Rabe, who was a member of the Nazi Party, and before the war he truly believed they serve the betterment of their nation, yet he couldn't bear the blunt destruction of civilian life by the Japanese, and thus offered shelter for them.

So, on the one hand he served a machine, that has economically contributed to the deaths of millions, but on the other hand he personally saved a lot of people. If there could be a place we're judged, he wasn't sent to either.

Besides, they did steal Janet, but they did not have full control over her, neither over her access to the train they couldn't track.

I live in the Gordius Apartment Complex, my interior designer was M.C. Escher.

> Do you guys think the medium place where the only woman resides is in some corner of the bad place and part of Michael's con?

I believe that The Medium Place is real and not part of Michael's plan. We've been told that architects are responsible for their own neighborhoods and that's it.

Remember that when Jason, Eleanor, and Janet took the train, Michael and Sean talked in private and said that they had no idea where the three of them went. They had to resort to the Janet intercom to threaten them and get them to return. That private discussion would not be needed if they already know where they went.

It does appear that there is a lot of free will allowed in the afterlife. The architects create neighborhoods and then put souls in them and just watch what happens. The souls can do whatever they want. It's kind of like a giant ant farm.

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They don't have control over Janet, and we know Janet is the only one that can control where the train goes.

No. Janet is a Good Place Janet that was stolen, so the fact that she is the one who suggests visiting the middle place proves it is not Michael's con.