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- One of the big reveals near the end of season 1 was the existence of The Medium Place, which was home to exactly one resident; Mindy St. Claire (Maribeth Monroe). In life, Mindy was a self-obsessed, greedy lawyer with a serious coke addiction, so what did she do to wind up in her own mediocre paradise?
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What happened to Mindy in the Medium Place?
Mindy is the only person in the medium place and this was just down to sheer luck regarding the circumstances of her death. Her afterlife is already complicated because it required the good place and bad place to work together to provide her with things she wanted but ruin then enough to make them medium.
Apr 14, 2020 · Mindy St. Claire is the only resident of The Medium Place on NBC's Good Place and here's why the coke-addicted lawyer ended up in her own afterlife.
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If the good place hasn’t gotten residents in over 300 years, but Mindy St Claire got her own “medium place” in the 1980’s-1990’s that means Mindy St Claire is technically better than everyone whos died in those 300 years.
The Judge looked at the debate about whether Mindy should get the points that the charity she planned but didn't actually start would give her or not, and decided to make her own solution with Mindy getting a medium place instead.
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❝ Welcome to eternal mediocrity. Welcome to The Medium Place. ❞
—Beadie
The Medium Place has at most only been around since the 1980s when Mindy St. Claire died, and both The Good Place and The Bad Place argued for an unknown period of time over who should get her. Eventually, they came to a compromise and created a new realm of mediocre existence for Mindy to live in by herself for the rest of eternity. Since it has only one resident, there isn't even a neighborhood as such, just one house and a railway station, the nameboard of which reads "Neighborhood: [N/A]". The medium place can only consist of one person, because if it has multiple people, it “isn’t medium.”
Although the events of Chapters 16 move the setting on by a few hundred years, Mindy St. Claire is still the only resident. This is because of the Jeremy Bearimy timeline that led to it being the same time as before.
As stated before, it was a place for Mindy St. Claire to live in. But why did she go there? As explained by Mindy, one night she was high on cocaine, which lead her to having the idea to create a charity foundation, which she decided to do the next day, but was hit by a train while on her way to start the charity. At this point she was going to be ...
Mindy St. Claire is the only person that resides in The Medium Place.
Through their various iterations, the main characters have visited 30 times in various combinations, and frequently considered staying so as to escape from Michael. However, they have always chosen to return to Neighborhood 12358W. In Chapter 22, Derek is sent to the Medium Place as both a diversion in the escape plan and a present to Mindy.
The Medium Place was created to be neither blissful nor painful for Mindy, being a place of 'eternal mediocrity". It has the appearance of a single beige house with one small garden in the middle of a barren plain resembling the Great Plains in America or the Australian outback.
When Mindy was first admitted to the Medium Place, she gave the Good Place a list of the things she wanted, and the Bad Place made a few modifications to the list. For example, they gave Mindy her favorite beer, but it is always warm. Her jukebox has every song ever but only performed by the Eagles (live versions only), as well as spoken word poetry by William Shatner, which Trevor describes as deeply terrible. Of course, there is more, like only unsalted pretzels. Mindy also has no cocaine, which is something she loves.
There is no sign that the Medium Place has its own Janet, though it is known that there are different Janets for the Good and Bad Places, and a Neutral Janet who resides in the Neutral Zone. Since Mindy is the only occupant of the Medium Place, it is possible that a Medium Janet was not created for the sole use of one person.
At the end of Season 2, it is revealed that if the Medium Place housed multiple humans, they would all be in different realms and have no interaction with each other in order to create a perfectly mediocre afterlife personalized for the individual. Eleanor and the others turn were given the chance to have their own Medium Places, but they declined, insisting that they stick together..
•The Medium House has no cable television, probably to increase its mediocrity.
•It's unknown what mediocrity would happen if she requested her favorite shows to watch on VHS; however, she does possess Chidi and Eleanor's sex tape and masturbates while watching it.
•Since Derek was there, Mindy received a loophole for procuring what she need; given Derek was not a Janet bound to Good, Neutral or Bad guidelines.
•In the periods after her memory erasures, Eleanor ran away to the Medium Place several times.
The Soul Squad uses her home as headquarters, but Mindy usually does not bother them, and only interacts with them when granting them permission to use The Medium Place and when Jason wants to know how to de-activate Derek.
Jan 21, 2017 · Was she really living along in a medium place or was that also part of the trick? I'm pretty sure that it is a real place that seems to be forgotten by the curators of the afterlife. I mean, why introduce the place during the final episode of the first season if it wasn't going to play an important role in the next season?
