Maybe with the help of Chidi’s lessons in moral philosophy, Eleanor will become the honest, caring, ethically sensitive match for her teacher. But Eleanor, played by Kristen Bell, is a selfish, snarky slacker and party-girl-not an obvious match. Michael, the architect of The Good Place played by Ted Danson-a dapper demon who develops a sympathetic soft-spot for his human guinea pigs-told Chidi that Eleanor Shellstrop is his soulmate. One of our hapless protagonists, Chidi, played to perfect pitch by William Jackson Harper, is a professor of moral philosophy: smart, earnest, serious, but hijacked by indecisiveness and its telltale stomach aches. Its peculiar combination of high-brow references and goofiness is utterly charming and original. But The Good Place is laugh-out-loud funny. In their quest to evade the ingenious tortures concocted by the bureaucratic demons of the netherworld, they get lessons in moral philosophy, take risks in the name of friendship, learn to trust each other and gain the self-knowledge necessary to understanding the morality of their actions.Ī sitcom centered on moral understanding, let alone one that actually references philosophers like Kant and Kierkegaard, might seem like a buzzkill.
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If they fail, they will be subjected to endless torture in The Bad Place, or-what may be worse-consigned to endless mediocrity in the form of warm beer and uninspired movie sequels in The Medium Place. The premise across two seasons is this: Four faulty humans mistakenly sent to The Good Place after death are trying to improve themselves so as to earn their way into heavenly bliss for real.
That may be the ultimate message this snappy NBC sitcom is grinding away at, like a fork in the kitchen sink garbage disposal (wink to those in the know). If you have not yet found your way to The Good Place, it’s not too late.
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