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'''''The Good Place''''' is an American [[fantasy]] [[Television comedy|comedy]] television series created by [[Michael Schur]]. The series aired from September 19, 2016, to January 30, 2020 on [[NBC]].
'''''The Good Place''''' is an American [[Television comedy|comedy]] television series created by [[Michael Schur]]. The series aired from September 19, 2016, to January 30, 2020 on [[NBC]].


The series focuses on Eleanor Shellstrop ([[Kristen Bell]]), who wakes up in the [[afterlife]] and is introduced by Michael ([[Ted Danson]]) to "the Good Place", a highly selective [[Heaven]]-like [[utopia]] he designed, as a reward for her [[Righteousness|righteous]] life. However, she realizes that she was sent there by mistake and must hide her morally imperfect behavior while trying to become a better and more ethical person. [[William Jackson Harper]], [[Jameela Jamil]], and [[Manny Jacinto]] co-star as other residents of "the Good Place", together with [[D'Arcy Carden]] as Janet, an artificial being who knows all the information in the universe and can produce any item out of thin air, abilities which she uses to help the inhabitants.
The series focuses on Eleanor Shellstrop ([[Kristen Bell]]), who wakes up in the [[afterlife]] and is introduced by Michael ([[Ted Danson]]) to "the Good Place", a highly selective [[Heaven]]-like [[utopia]] he designed, as a reward for her [[Righteousness|righteous]] life. However, she realizes that she was sent there by mistake and must hide her morally imperfect behavior while trying to become a better and more ethical person. [[William Jackson Harper]], [[Jameela Jamil]], and [[Manny Jacinto]] co-star as other residents of "the Good Place", together with [[D'Arcy Carden]] as Janet, an artificial being who knows all the information in the universe and can produce any item out of thin air, abilities which she uses to help the inhabitants.

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The Good Place
Title card for The Good Place, with "The Good Place" written in white writing on a plain green background
Genre
Created byMichael Schur
Starring
ComposerDavid Schwartz
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons4
No. of episodes53 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers
Producers
Editors
Camera setupSingle-camera
Running time22 minutes
Production companies
Original release
NetworkNBC
ReleaseSeptember 19, 2016 (2016-09-19) –
January 30, 2020 (2020-01-30)

The Good Place is an American comedy television series created by Michael Schur. The series aired from September 19, 2016, to January 30, 2020 on NBC.

The series focuses on Eleanor Shellstrop (Kristen Bell), who wakes up in the afterlife and is introduced by Michael (Ted Danson) to "the Good Place", a highly selective Heaven-like utopia he designed, as a reward for her righteous life. However, she realizes that she was sent there by mistake and must hide her morally imperfect behavior while trying to become a better and more ethical person. William Jackson Harper, Jameela Jamil, and Manny Jacinto co-star as other residents of "the Good Place", together with D'Arcy Carden as Janet, an artificial being who knows all the information in the universe and can produce any item out of thin air, abilities which she uses to help the inhabitants.

The Good Place has received critical acclaim for its writing, acting, originality, setting, and tone. In addition, the first season's twist ending and the show's exploration and creative use of ethics and philosophy have been positively received. The recognition earned the series a Peabody Award in 2019. The series has won two Hugo Awards for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form for the episodes "The Trolley Problem" and "Janet(s)".

In December 2018, NBC renewed the series for a fourth and final season, which premiered on September 26, 2019, and concluded on January 30, 2020. It consisted of 14 episodes, ending the series at 53 episodes total.[8][9][10]

Synopsis

Season 1

Main article: The Good Place (season 1)

After her death, Eleanor Shellstrop is welcomed to her afterlife in "the Good Place" by Michael, an immortal architect who has built a specifically designed afterlife community that strives to accommodate everyone's specific tastes. Here you are provided everything you could ever dream of, no hangovers, and a soulmate. Eleanor meets Janet, an artificial intelligence that serves as a guide. She is also introduced to her soulmate, a university ethics professor named Chidi Anagonye. Eleanor, who led a dissolute and amoral life, tells Chidi in confidence that she must have been sent to the Good Place by accident since she was not a good person on Earth, and he hesitantly agrees to teach Eleanor how to become a better person in order to earn her place in "the Good Place" for real. Eleanor's neighbor is Tahani Al-Jamil, a wealthy socialite, whose soulmate is introduced as a silent Buddhist monk named Jianyu Li; but Jianyu reveals that he is actually a dimwitted DJ from Jacksonville, Florida named Jason Mendoza, who also believes he has been sent to the Good Place by mistake. Chidi is then forced to take on Jason as a student of ethics. As Chidi continues to teach Eleanor and Jason ethics lessons, chaotic events occur in the neighborhood, apparently due to Eleanor's unauthorized presence. Eleanor reveals to the entire neighborhood that she's not supposed to be in the Good Place, but Michael offers to try to find a way for both Eleanor and Jason to remain. When those efforts prove fruitless, an authority figure named Shawn rules that Eleanor and Jason must be sent to the Bad Place. In the season finale's twist ending, Eleanor deduces that she, Chidi, Tahani and Jason have actually been in the Bad Place all along. Michael, a now revealed demon, tells the four of his demonic plot to have them torture each other emotionally and psychologically for eternity. He then announces his intent to wipe their memories and separate the four to try again.

Season 2

Main article: The Good Place (season 2)

Michael repeatedly attempts the experiment in human torture again with variations of the neighborhood, but the group figures out the truth each time. After 802 fruitless attempts, the other demons stage a coup against Michael and threaten to inform Shawn about his repeated failures if he doesn't implement their ideas instead. Michael decides to team up with the four humans and promises to get them all into the real Good Place; they agree after Michael agrees to begin learning about ethics himself. They escape with Michael's help through the Bad Place, and they attempt to get to the Good Place by appealing to the Judge. The Judge gives each a test to see if the four humans have improved enough to enter the Good Place, which everyone except Eleanor fails (although she tells the others she failed as well). Michael appeals, and the Judge agrees to send them all back to Earth with no memories of the afterlife and with Michael intervening to prevent their deaths, to give them a chance to show true moral development in ignorance of the potential consequences. After a false start, Michael intervenes again and points Eleanor in the direction of Chidi, reigniting her passion for ethics.

Season 3

Main article: The Good Place (season 3)

Realizing that the group has been falling back into their old patterns, Michael repeatedly interferes without the Judge's knowledge to manipulate them to find each other. They all end up in Sydney and become participants in a research study run by Chidi and his colleague Simone about near-death experiences and ethical decision making. After a year of monitoring and interfering in the lives of the group, Michael and Janet are discovered and forced to admit the truth about the group's experiences in the afterlife. This renders them incapable of earning admission to the Good Place; instead, Eleanor persuades the others to spend the remainder of their time left on Earth helping other people to get into the Good Place. Michael and Janet track down Doug Forcett, the only human to have ever come close to figuring out the truth about the afterlife; they find that his obsession with trying to live in such a way as to gain admission to the Good Place is making his existence miserable. Shawn travels to Earth to apprehend Michael, and taunts him that no one, including Forcett, will make it to the Good Place. His demons force the group to escape back into the afterlife. When Michael and Janet learn that it has been 521 years since anyone has entered the real Good Place, Janet convinces Michael that it is up to him to fix the flawed system. An appeal to the real Good Place's governing committee fails due to bureaucratic red tape. Michael then tries to convince the Judge that because good deeds have more and more unintended bad consequences, it's impossible to earn enough points to get into the Good Place. To test Chidi's theory that humans can improve if external factors are removed, a new simulated Good Place neighborhood is built which will be populated with four new deceased human test subjects. When Shawn threatens Michael with consequences if the experiment fails, Michael has a nervous breakdown and asks Eleanor to pose as the architect. As two of the subjects arrive, the group realizes Shawn has deliberately selected people who will be difficult for them to work with, in an effort to compromise the integrity of the experiment, essentially ensuring its failure. With Simone being one of the new subjects, Chidi is concerned that he will not be able to prevent his memories of his relationship with her from interfering with the experiment; so he asks Michael to erase his memory to the moment of his death in the original timeline.

Season 4

Main article: The Good Place (season 4)

The experiment on self-improvement in the afterlife begins. Shawn repeatedly tries to sabotage the experiment, first by sending a demon to impersonate one of the test subjects, and then by having a Bad Janet impersonate Janet. Once these deceptions have been uncovered, the four human test subjects are Chidi himself, Simone, gossip columnist John, and entitled chauvinist Brent. Eleanor and the rest of the team encourage the four to become friends, study ethics together, and improve as people. By the conclusion of the year-long experiment, all but Brent have shown moral improvement, and even Brent shows potential for change at the last minute. The Judge agrees that the afterlife system is flawed, and Chidi and the others propose an alternative system based on testing humans' moral development after death. After the Judge, Shawn, Michael, and the Soul Squad all agree on how to proceed, a new system is in place: once humans die, they go through a personalized test, designed by both a Good Place architect and a Bad Place architect. This test will determine if they have learned to become better since their death on earth. Those who pass the test enter the Good Place, and those who fail continue to take the test until they eventually ace it. Once the system is set up, Eleanor, Chidi, Tahani, and Jason are all officially entered into the real Good Place. It's there they learn from Hypatia that the Good Place is flawed; people become "happiness zombies" when they have an eternal, perfect existence. To rectify this, Michael (who had since become the head of the Good Place after a bait-and-switch maneuver by the Good Place board) has Janet create a door that allows people in the afterlife to conclude their existence in a peaceful way. The system works incredibly well, and is well received by all parties, including the Judge. After a countless amount of time in the afterlife, Eleanor, Chidi, Tahani, and Jason all decide they have grown tired of the perfect afterlife. Jason and Chidi both walk through the door on separate occasions. Tahani becomes an architect for the afterlife. After helping Mindy enter the afterlife system and after helping Michael achieve his goal of becoming a real human and going to Earth, Eleanor feels at peace and decides to take her turn to walk through the door. It is then revealed that once a soul passes through the door, their essence reenters the Universe and helps make the world a better place.

The Selection

In September 2019, prior to the release of fourth season of The Good Place, NBC released a six-episode web series on their website, app, and their YouTube channel. The series, titled The Selection, follows Michael's former demon boss, Shawn, as he and his underlings decide which four people to pick for Michael's new incarnation of "the Good Place".[11]

Cast and characters

Main

Kristen Bell portrays series protagonist Eleanor Shellstrop.
The cast of The Good Place at the 2018 San Diego Comic-Con
  • Kristen Bell as Eleanor Shellstrop, a deceased selfish saleswoman from Phoenix, Arizona, who seemingly winds up in the Good Place by mistake. In order to earn her spot, she recruits Chidi to teach her the fundamentals of becoming a better person.[12][13]
  • William Jackson Harper as Chidi Anagonye, a deceased professor of ethics and moral philosophy from Senegal. Assigned as Eleanor's soulmate in Michael's first Good Place experiment, he gives her ethics lessons in an attempt to make her a better person.[14]
  • Jameela Jamil as Tahani Al-Jamil, a deceased wealthy British philanthropist who believes she belongs in the Good Place. She forms an unlikely friendship with Eleanor, who initially dislikes her positive attitude, condescending way of speaking, and tendency to name drop.[15]
  • D'Arcy Carden as Janet, a programmed guide and knowledge bank who acts as the Good Place's main source of information and can provide its residents with whatever they desire. Later, Janet gains a more humanlike disposition, and begins to act differently than the way she was designed.
    • Carden also portrays multiple Janet iterations throughout the series. Among them are "Bad Janet", a Bad Place counterpart specifically designed by the demons to respond to residents in an inappropriate and impolite manner;[16] "Neutral Janet", an impartial, robotic version of Janet that works in the Accountant's Office;,[17] "Disco Janet" who is "fun but a lot" and, for one episode, Janet-versions of Eleanor, Chidi, Tahani, and Jason.[18]
  • Manny Jacinto as Jason Mendoza, a deceased amateur DJ and drug dealer from Jacksonville, Florida, who seemingly winds up in the Good Place by mistake. He is introduced as Jianyu Li, a Taiwanese monk who took a vow of silence. Later, Jason proves to be an immature and unintelligent, but kindhearted Jacksonville Jaguars and Blake Bortles fan.[19]
  • Ted Danson as Michael, a Bad Place architect who runs the Good Place neighborhood in which Eleanor, Chidi, Tahani, and Jason reside. Michael has a deep affinity for the mundane aspects of human life, like playing with paper clips or searching for one's car keys. In the first-season finale, it is revealed that he has been tricking the four humans all along, and is actually a demon torturing them, though he later teams up with and befriends them. "Michael" is a Hebrew name meaning "who is like God?"[20] The character of Michael was based on the archangel Michael.[21]

Recurring

Demons

  • Tiya Sircar as Vicky, a Bad Place demon who portrays the "real Eleanor Shellstrop", whose position in the Good Place Eleanor supposedly stole, in the first season. In the second season, when Michael's plans repeatedly fail, she tries to blackmail Michael into giving her control over the neighborhood. Late in the series, Michael places her in charge of introducing the other demons to the revised afterlife system.
  • Adam Scott as Trevor, a cruel Bad Place demon who bullies the main group. He makes a return in the third season, posing as an overenthusiastic member of Chidi's academic study on Earth, only to be later exiled by the Judge upon being discovered.[22]
  • Marc Evan Jackson as Shawn, Michael's wicked boss. Shawn gives Michael two chances to pull off the torture experiment, and later turns against him when he finds out about Michael's betrayal.[23]
  • Luke Guldan as Chris Baker, a muscular Bad Place demon assigned as Eleanor's soulmate in the second attempt.[24] Chris was sent to the experimental Good Place disguised as "Linda". His mission was to distract Eleanor and the others, so the Bad Place could kidnap Good Janet and replace her with a Bad Janet.
  • Jama Williamson as Val, a demon and Shawn's secretary.
  • Amy Okuda as Gayle, a Bad Place demon pretending to be a Good Place resident by the name of Jessica. She shows a lack of interest in the humans, despite Shawn's obsession.
  • Steve Berg as Chuck, a Bad Place demon pretending to be a Good Place resident by the name of Gunnar. His preferred form of punishment is chewing.
  • Bambadjan Bamba as Bambadjan, a Bad Place demon pretending to be a lawyer in the Good Place. He is among the more cunning of Shawn's demons.
  • Josh Siegal as Glenn, a Bad Place demon pretending to be a cheerfully dopey Good Place resident. He is among the few demons to show actual concern for another being. He blows up in "Tinker, Tailor, Demon, Spy".
  • Joe Mande as the voice of Toddrick "Todd" Hemple, a lava monster who refuses to wear a human suit.

Humans

  • Maribeth Monroe as Mindy St. Claire, a deceased corporate lawyer and addict whose cocaine-infused plans for a charity generated enough good points after her death that her point total fell right in the middle between the Good Place and the Bad Place. As a compromise, the Judge ruled that she would receive her own private Medium Place where everything is mediocre.
  • Kirby Howell-Baptiste as Simone Garnett, an Australian neuroscientist and, briefly, Chidi's girlfriend. She is also the second test subject to be sent to the experimental Good Place.
  • Eugene Cordero as Steven "Pillboi" Peleaz, Jason's best friend and partner in crime.
  • Ben Lawson as Larry Hemsworth, Tahani's former boyfriend and the fictional fourth Hemsworth brother. Despite being very attractive and successful, he constantly berates himself.
  • Rebecca Hazlewood as Kamilah Al-Jamil, Tahani's massively successful and competitive younger sister.
  • Ajay Mehta as Waqas Al-Jamil, Tahani's father.
  • Anna Khaja as Manisha Al-Jamil, Tahani's mother.
  • Leslie Grossman as Donna Shellstrop, Eleanor's cruel, self-centered, negligent mother. In the third season, it is revealed that she has found peace as a PTA mom in a Nevada suburb.
  • Angela Trimbur as Madison, Eleanor's roommate.
  • Meryl Hathaway as Brittany, Eleanor's roommate.
  • Mitch Narito as Donkey Doug, Jason's dopey father.
  • Keston John as Uzo, Chidi's best friend.
  • Brandon Scott Jones as John Wheaton, the first test subject sent to the experimental Good Place. In life, he was a gossip columnist, and especially published trashy articles about Tahani.
  • Ben Koldyke as Brent Norwalk, the fourth test subject sent to the experimental Good Place, a privileged and arrogant chauvinist racist.

Other celestial beings

  • Jason Mantzoukas as Derek, a malfunctioning artificial rebound boyfriend created by Janet.
  • Maya Rudolph as "Gen" (short for hydrogen), the judge who rules on interdimensional matters between the Good Place and the Bad Place.
  • Mike O'Malley as Jeff the Doorman, the gatekeeper of the doorway between the afterlife and Earth. He has an affinity for frogs.
  • Brad Morris as Matt, a suicidal accountant who works in a neutral office between the Good Place and the Bad Place. He is assigned as the accountant for Eleanor and Michael's experiment. Formerly assigned to evaluating "Weird Sex Things" in Accounting.
  • Paul Scheer as Chet, leader of the Good Place committee. Ostensibly wanting to help Eleanor and her friends, he is very hesitant to make any actual action, and is overly deferential to any demands by the Bad Place in negotiations.

Episodes

Main article: List of The Good Place episodes
SeasonEpisodesOriginally airedRankAverage viewers
(in millions inc. DVR)
First airedLast aired
113September 19, 2016 (2016-09-19)January 19, 2017 (2017-01-19)775.72[25]
213September 20, 2017 (2017-09-20)February 1, 2018 (2018-02-01)775.78[26]
313September 27, 2018 (2018-09-27)January 24, 2019 (2019-01-24)994.57[27]
414September 26, 2019 (2019-09-26)January 30, 2020 (2020-01-30)923.56[28]

Production

Casting

Series creator and executive producer Michael Schur

NBC issued a press release on August 13, 2015, announcing it had given the then-untitled show a 13-episode order based purely on a pitch by Michael Schur.[29] On January 12, 2016, it was announced that Kristen Bell and Ted Danson had been cast in the lead roles for the series. The first synopsis of the show was also released, stating that the show was set to revolve around Eleanor designing her own self-improvement course with Michael acting as her guide[12] – although the afterlife element had always been a part of the series, as Bell has stated she was aware of the first-season finale twist when she signed onto the show.[30]

William Jackson Harper was cast as Chris on February 11, 2016,[14] though the character was renamed Chidi. Jameela Jamil was cast as Tessa on February 25, 2016,[15] and her character was renamed Tahani. On March 3, 2016, Manny Jacinto was revealed to have been cast as a "sweet and good-natured Jason" whose "dream is to make a living as a DJ in Southern Florida".[19] On March 14, 2016, D'Arcy Carden was cast in a series regular role that was announced as "Janet Della-Denunzio, a violin salesperson with a checkered past"[16] – although writer Megan Amram later admitted that this was an intentional hoax.[31]

Development

The final premise for the show, including the afterlife element, was ultimately announced on May 15, 2016, when NBC announced its schedule for the 2016–17 TV season.[32]

According to Schur, the premise and idea was to include religious elements into the series after doing research on various faiths and groups, but he decided to scrap the plans, instead going for a concept that included all faiths that was diverse and free of religious views. "I stopped doing research because I realized it's about versions of ethical behavior, not religious salvation," he says. "The show isn't taking a side, the people who are there are from every country and religion." Schur also points out that the setting (shot in San Marino, California's Huntington Gardens) already had the feeling of a pastiche of different cultures, stating that the neighborhoods will feature people who are part of nondenominational and interdenominational backgrounds that interact with each other regardless of religion.[33]

The series' setting and premises, as well as the serialized cliffhangers, were modeled on Lost, a favorite of Schur's. One of the first people he called when he developed the series was Lost co-creator Damon Lindelof. "I took him to lunch and said, 'We're going to play a game [of] 'Is this anything?'" He then added "I imagine this going in the Lost way, with cliffhangers and future storylines."[34]

The first season's surprise twist, that the Good Place was the Bad Place, and Chidi, Eleanor, Jason and Tahani were the four souls chosen because they were best suited to torture each other indefinitely, is very similar in premise to philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre's stage play No Exit, in which three strangers die, are escorted to a single room by a friendly bellhop where they are informed they must co-exist together, but ultimately determine they are entirely incompatible and thus come to the conclusion that "hell is other people". The only actors who knew the truth from the start were Danson and Bell.[35]

Critics have also suggested resemblances to 1960s surreal TV show The Prisoner in its isolated, rule-bound setting.[36][37][38]

Broadcast and release

The series premiered on September 19, 2016.[39] On January 30, 2017, NBC renewed the series for a second season of 13 episodes, which premiered on Wednesday, September 20, 2017, with an hour-long premiere before moving to its normal time slot on Thursday at 8:30 pm, beginning September 28, 2017.[40] On November 21, 2017, NBC renewed the series for a 13-episode third season, which premiered on September 27, 2018.[41][42] On December 4, 2018, NBC renewed the series for a fourth season.[43] On June 7, 2019, it was announced that the fourth season will be the last.[8] Season 4 premiered on September 26, 2019.[9]

International

In several international territories, the show is distributed on Netflix, and the first season was released on September 21, 2017, while episodes of subsequent seasons became available within 24 hours of its U.S. broadcast.[44][45]

Home media

All the DVD releases for The Good Place were distributed by the Shout! Factory. The first season was released on DVD in region 1 on October 17, 2017.[46] The second season was released on DVD on July 17, 2018.[47] The third season was released on DVD on July 30, 2019.[48]

The complete series will be released on Blu-ray on May 19, 2020.[49]

Reception

Ratings

Viewership and ratings per season of The Good Place
Season Timeslot (ET) Episodes First aired Last aired TV season Viewership
rank		 Avg. viewers
(millions)		 18–49
rank
Date Viewers
(millions) 		Date Viewers
(millions)
1 Monday 10:00 pm (premiere)
Thursday 8:30 pm		 13 September 19, 2016 8.04[50] January 19, 2017 3.93[51] 2016–17 77 5.72[25] TBD
2 Wednesday 10:00 pm (premiere)
Thursday 8:30 pm		 13 September 20, 2017 5.28[52] February 1, 2018 3.19[53] 2017–18 77 5.78[54] TBD
3 Thursday 8:00 pm (premiere)
Thursday 8:30 pm (2018)
Thursday 9:30 pm (2019)		 13 September 27, 2018 3.13[55] January 24, 2019 2.39[56] 2018–19 99 4.57[57] TBD
4 Thursday 9:00 pm (2019)
Thursday 8:30 pm (2020)		 14 September 26, 2019 2.42[58] January 30, 2020 2.32[59] 2019–20 TBD TBD TBD

Critical response

Ted Danson's performance on the series has received critical acclaim.
Season Critical response
Rotten Tomatoes Metacritic
1 92% (71 reviews) 78 (32 reviews)
2 100% (58 reviews) 87 (10 reviews)
3 98% (47 reviews) 96 (5 reviews)
4 100% (21 reviews) —

On Rotten Tomatoes, the first season has a rating of 92%, based on 71 reviews, with an average rating of 7.74/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Kristen Bell and Ted Danson knock it out of the park with supremely entertaining, charming performances in this absurd, clever and whimsical portrayal of the afterlife."[60] On Metacritic, the first season has a score of 78 out of 100, based on reviews from 32 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[61]

The editors of TV Guide placed The Good Place second among the top ten picks for the most anticipated new shows of the 2016–17 season. In its review from writer Liam Matthews, "NBC's new comedy has an impressive pedigree" (referring to Mike Schur and stars Kristen Bell and Ted Danson, the latter cited as "arguably the greatest sitcom actor of all time"). Matthews concludes, "The hope is that their combined star power can restore NBC's tarnished comedy brand to its former glory. It won't be the next Friends, but it's something even better: a network comedy that feels different than anything that's come before."[62]

On Rotten Tomatoes, the second season has a rating of 100%, based on 58 reviews, with an average rating of 8.95/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "By voluntarily blowing up its premise, The Good Place sets up a second season that proves even funnier than its first."[63] On Metacritic, the second season has a score of 87 out of 100, based on reviews from 10 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".[64]

On Rotten Tomatoes, the third season has a rating of 98%, based on 47 reviews, with an average rating of 8.35/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Charming and curious as ever, The Good Place remains a delightfully insightful bright spot on the television landscape."[65] On Metacritic, the third season has a score of 96 out of 100, based on reviews from five critics, indicating "universal acclaim."[66]

On Rotten Tomatoes, the fourth season has a rating of 100%, based on 21 reviews, with an average rating of 8.33/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "A wild philosophical ride to the very end, The Good Place brings it home with a forking good final season."[67]

Several critics have commended the show for its exploration and creative use of ethics and philosophy.[68][1][69] Featured topics include the trolley problem thought experiment (originally devised by Philippa Foot),[70][71] the categorical imperative (first formulated by Immanuel Kant),[71][72] T. M. Scanlon's What We Owe to Each Other,[73] and the works of Aristotle and Søren Kierkegaard.[71][74] Andrew P. Street of The Guardian wrote that "moral philosophy is the beating heart of the program" and that the show "made philosophy seem cool."[72] Elizabeth Yuko of The Atlantic noted that "The Good Place stands out for dramatizing actual ethics classes onscreen, without watering down the concepts being described, and while still managing to be entertaining."[71] For their part, several philosophers have celebrated the show's largely accurate popularization of their line of work[1] while noting some minor inaccuracies.[74]

Several critics have noted that The Good Place is notable for its eschewing of antiheroes and cynical themes in favor of likable characters and a positive message. James Poniewozik of The New York Times explained that "the most refreshing thing about The Good Place, in an era of artistic bleakness, is its optimism about human nature. It's made humane and sidesplittingly entertaining television out of the notion that people – and even the occasional immortal demon – are redeemable."[70] Jenna Scherer of Rolling Stone wrote that The Good Place proves that "slapstick and banter can coexist alongside tragedy and hardship – that a show doesn't need to be self-serious to be serious-minded."[75] Erik Adams of The A.V. Club praised the show as portraying an "uncommonly decent TV world".[76] Stuart Heritage of The Guardian called The Good Place "relentlessly optimistic",[77] a quality which Stephanie Palumbo of Vulture called "a salve for despair in the Trump era".[73]

In 2019, The Good Place was ranked 69th on The Guardian's list of the 100 best TV shows of the 21st century.[78]

Critics' top-ten lists

Publication Rank
2016[79] 2017[80] 2018[81]
Adweek — — 7
American Film Institute — Shortlisted —
Ars Technica — — Shortlisted
BuddyTV — 7 —
Complex — 6 4
Consequence of Sound — — 6
Decider — — 2
E! — 8 Shortlisted
Entertainment Weekly 8 4 —
Esquire — 4 —
Film School Rejects — 6 6
Flood Magazine — 9 5
GameSpot — 8 Shortlisted
Glamour — — Shortlisted
GQ — — Shortlisted
HuffPost — Shortlisted —
IGN — — Shortlisted
io9 — — Shortlisted
Junkee — — 10
Las Vegas Weekly 4 5 —
Lincoln Journal Star 5 8 —
Los Angeles Times Shortlisted — —
Metro — Shortlisted Shortlisted
Nerdist — — 1
New York Daily News — — 4
New York Post — 7 Shortlisted
Newsday — 10 9
Now — 8 6
NPR — Shortlisted Shortlisted
Omaha World-Herald 10 — 2
Paste — 2 5
People 9 — —
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 8 7 —
Reason 10a — —
Relevant — — 2
RogerEbert.com — 3 7
Rolling Stone — 4 —
Salon — Shortlisted 4c
San Francisco Chronicle 7 — 10
San Jose Mercury News — 8 —
Screen Rant — — 2
The A.V. Club 10 1b 1d
The Atlantic — Shortlisted —
The Boston Globe — 9 —
The Daily Beast — — 8
The Hollywood Reporter — 9 5
The New York Times — Shortlisted —
The Philadelphia Inquirer — — Shortlisted
The Plain Dealer — 9 9
The Ringer — 9 —
The Salt Lake Tribune — 6 6
The Village Voice 9 6 —
Thrillist — — 10
Time — — 5
Town & Country — — Shortlisted
TV Guide 7 1 3
TVLine — 9 1
Uproxx — 4 9
USA Today — 2 7
Vanity Fair — — 1
Variety — 3 —
Vox 10 — —
Vulture 8 4 —
Weekly Alibi — — Shortlisted
Wilmington Star-News — 2 2
  1. ^ Tied with Patria O Muerte: Cuba, Fatherland or Death
  2. ^ Appears as No. 1 on Erik Adams' and William Hughes' lists. Also listed on 13 of 17 other The A.V. Club Top Ten Lists.
  3. ^ Tied with Brooklyn Nine-Nine
  4. ^ Appears as No. 1 on Dennis Perkins' list. Also listed on 10 of 16 other The A.V. Club Top Ten Lists.

Accolades

Year Award Category Nominee(s) Result Ref.
2016 Critics' Choice Television Awards Most Exciting New Series The Good Place Won [82]
IGN Awards Best TV Comedy Series The Good Place Nominated [83]
2017 American Film Institute Awards Top 10 TV Programs of the Year The Good Place Won [84]
Gold Derby Awards Comedy Lead Actor Ted Danson Nominated [85]
People's Choice Awards Favorite New Comedy Series The Good Place Nominated [86]
Saturn Awards Best Fantasy Television Series The Good Place Nominated [87]
TCA Awards Individual Achievement in Comedy Kristen Bell Nominated [88]
Outstanding Achievement in Comedy The Good Place Nominated
Outstanding New Program The Good Place Nominated
2018 Critics' Choice Television Awards Best Actor in a Comedy Series Ted Danson Won [89]
Best Actress in a Comedy Series Kristen Bell Nominated
Hugo Award Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form "Michael's Gambit", written and directed by Michael Schur Nominated [90]
"The Trolley Problem", written by Josh Siegal & Dylan Morgan and directed by Dean Holland Won [90]
People's Choice Awards Best Comedy Show The Good Place Nominated [91]
Comedy TV Star Kristen Bell Nominated
Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series Maya Rudolph Nominated
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series Ted Danson Nominated [92]
Saturn Awards Best Fantasy Television Series The Good Place Nominated [93]
TCA Awards Individual Achievement in Comedy Ted Danson Nominated [94]
Outstanding Achievement in Comedy The Good Place Won
Program of the Year The Good Place Nominated
2019 Critics' Choice Television Awards Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series William Jackson Harper Nominated [95]
Golden Globe Awards Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy Kristen Bell Nominated
Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy The Good Place Nominated [96]
Hugo Awards Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form "Janet(s)", written by Josh Siegal & Dylan Morgan, directed by Morgan Sackett Won [97]
"Jeremy Bearimy", written by Megan Amram, directed by Trent O'Donnell Nominated [98]
Peabody Awards Entertainment honoree The Good Place Won [99]
Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Comedy Series The Good Place Nominated [100]
Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series Maya Rudolph Nominated
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series Ted Danson Nominated
Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series Josh Siegal & Dylan Morgan (for "Janet(s)") Nominated
Satellite Awards Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy Series Ted Danson Nominated
Best Musical or Comedy Series The Good Place Nominated [101][102]
Saturn Awards Best Fantasy Television Series The Good Place Nominated [103]
TCA Awards Outstanding Achievement in Comedy The Good Place Nominated [104]
Writers Guild of America Awards Television: Comedy Series The Good Place Nominated [105]
2020 Satellite Awards Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy Series Ted Danson Nominated
Best Musical or Comedy Series The Good Place Nominated [106]
Art Directors Guild Awards Excellence in Production Design for a Half-Hour Single-Camera Series Ian Phillips (for "Employee of the Bearimy", "Help Is Other People") Nominated [107]

Philosophical inspirations

The Good Place makes use of many different theories of moral philosophy and ethics through the character of Chidi Anagonye, the moral philosophy professor. Within the show, there is reference to John Locke, Tim Scanlon, Peter Singer, and Derek Parfit and "the show has covered everything from Jonathan Dancy's theory of moral particularism, to Aristotelian virtue ethics, to Kantian deontology, to moral nihilism."[108] UCLA philosophy professor Pamela Hieronymi served as a consultant to the show.[109] She also made a cameo alongside political philosopher Todd May in the final episode.[110]

The beginning of The Good Place takes its inspiration from the idiom "Hell is other people", from Jean-Paul Sartre's play No Exit. In the play, three people are trapped in Hell, represented as one room, and they torture one another psychologically while reflecting upon the sins that got them there.[108] The concept "Hell is other people" is an often-misunderstood philosophical idiom meant to reflect that "Hell is other people because you are, in some sense, forever trapped within them, subject to their apprehension of you."[111][112]

The play No Exit acts as a direct inspiration for The Good Place's first season where it is revealed that the human-loving Good Place architect, Michael, is a demon sent from Hell to run an experiment on the idea that humans are their own best torturers. He selectively chooses a group of four people who he decides are perfectly offset to torture one another and, in the beginning, it appears to work. Chidi tortures Eleanor with his indecisiveness, inflexibility, and scholarly disposition, likewise Eleanor tortures Chidi by constantly putting him in situations where he must make decisions or go against the very moral tenets he espouses. Tahani tortures Eleanor by continuously reinforcing her superiority, Jason tortures Tahani by being unable to return her incessant need for validation (as he is initially the silent Buddhist monk Jianyu), and for Jason the mere fact he is forced to pretend he is someone other than himself is torture in itself. Each character is designed to bring out what they hate most about each other and themselves, resulting in the new form of torture Michael is experimenting with.[112][113]

The second philosophical inspiration of The Good Place is the question of whether studying moral philosophy can have a direct effect on how moral one can be. In season two Chidi becomes a teacher to Eleanor, Jason, Tahani and the demon, Michael. The show doesn't definitively answer this question, as Eleanor often struggles to decide which moral philosophy is best to abide by in her situations, but the lessons do encourage the process of self-reflection. By encouraging Eleanor to reflect on the moral implications of an act her challenges encourage moral her to develop her capacity to see her choices as moral ones. We also see morality created in Michael not through Chidi's lessons, which Michael uses as a means of torture, but rather through the relationships he develops with the characters.[114]

The final major philosophical tenet of the show is named in one of the series' episodes, "What We Owe to Each Other", which is a philosophy book written by Tim Scanlon. According to the show's head writer Michael Schur, this "book forms the spine of the entire show".[108] The book presents the idea of Contractualism, the idea is that "to act morally is to abide by principles that no one could reasonably reject".[108] The show and the relationships between the characters act as an investigation into contractualism with the four main humans, Michael, and Janet forming their own society whereby they must act in ways that no one could reasonably reject even when that goes against the rules and tenets of higher powers. The overarching thesis of the show, greatly influenced by the contractualist theory is "the point of morality... isn't to accumulate goodness points, as in the elaborate point system the organizers of The Good Place and its corresponding Bad Place employ to determine who goes to which upon death. It's to live up to our duties to each other."[108]

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