The Good Place

Watch: The Good Place Season 1 Episode 1

S1 EP1

TV-14

50 episodes4 seasons

US Release

~ What the fork?! ~

Overview:

Eleanor Shellstrop, an ordinary woman who, through an extraordinary string of events, enters the afterlife where she comes to realize that she hasn't been a very good person. With the help of her wise afterlife mentor, she's determined to shed her old way of living and discover the awesome (or at least the pretty good) person within.

Created by:

Michael Schur

Status:

Ended

Language:

English

First air date:

9/19/2016

Last air date:

1/30/2020

Key words:

paradise
philosophy
soulmates
heaven
friendship
hell
afterlife
mistaken identity
torture
neighborhood
karma
sitcom
ethics
save the world
witty

Seasons

Specials

8 Episodes

Season 1

13 Episodes

Season 2

12 Episodes

Season 3

12 Episodes

Season 4

13 Episodes

Cast

Kristen Bell

~ as ~

Eleanor Shellstrop

Ted Danson

~ as ~

Michael

William Jackson Harper

~ as ~

Chidi Anagonye

Jameela Jamil

~ as ~

Tahani Al-Jamil

Manny Jacinto

~ as ~

Jason Mendoza

D'Arcy Carden

~ as ~

Janet

Marc Evan Jackson

~ as ~

Shawn

Tiya Sircar

~ as ~

Vicky and 2 more

Josh Siegal

~ as ~

Glenn

Maya Rudolph

~ as ~

Judge Gen

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Reviews (3)

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CharlesTheBold
Written 8 year(s) ago
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The Good Place is a fantasy-comedy that was first broadcast on NBC in the Fall of 2016. Unlike most TV comedies, it is serialized, with a continuing story that flows from one episode to the next. It is filmed without a laugh track.

The show has six characters. Two of them Janet and Michael (Ted Danson), operate a post-mortem world call the Good Place, and the other four, Eleanora (Kristin Bell), Chidi, Tahani, and Jason, are recently deceased humans who are bewildered to find themselves in the place.

I find this a highly original show. It deals with issues rarely seen in TV comedy: death and the afterlife, guilt and responsibility, but does so in highly amusing ways (One running joke is a spell that overrides swear words with innocuous ones like "fork" and "shirt", much to the irritation of characters who really feel a need to sound off). It has a unusually diverse cast, three of the six main characters being Filipino, Asian-Indian, and Senegalese. Since Chidi is a former philosophy professor, it also has an intellectual side as he tries to make sense of his new eternal dwelling place. In contrast to the well-behaved "Good Place", we have frequent farcical flashbacks to the characters' wild former lives, a la "Lost".

For viewers looking for something different, I quite recommend this show.
Sweatpants
Written 8 year(s) ago
7
Oddly Refreshing.
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rsanek
Written 5 year(s) ago
5
Not bad, but I lost interest about halfway through season two. It felt like the writing quality had taken a dive and they started going for easy/obvious laughs. I am waiting for Kristen Bell to find a show where she does as well as she did in House of Lies!