William Jackson Harper on The Good Place's "The Answer" episode: "Sometimes you have to get a birds eye view of things in order to really see them clearly"

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"It’s like when you ask advice from people who aren’t in the situation that you’re in," he says of Thursday's episode. "You usually can rely on that person for something in whatever they say that’s worth considering. When you look at the whole thing, when you look at all these various lives that he’s been through, there is this sort of running thread of not being able to make a decision, looking for the answer. He’s looking for the concrete thing that is always right, which I think is one of Chidi’s biggest flaws. His rigidity, the idea that there’s this one thing that is always right in every situation. I, personally, don’t think the world works that way."

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