The Good Place

One of the best television series ever made in my opinion. It may not have been on for very long, but it was sure great while it lasted. It had a story to tell, and it told the story. It went out on it's own terms, and it went out very well.

[watched s1] Because structurally they played the first half-or-so of the season very straight in order to make the sharp left turns later on, it was overall pretty terrible for the entire set-up, before getting way better. The finale was promising though, so I'll probably watch the second season. Imagine actually thinking the capitalist charity apparatus is Good though... [edit: watched s2 and found it more substantial than the merely expository earlier parts].

Definitely not a top-tier sitcom, but it's not a bad binge watch if you are in between something. It's a bit light on gutbusters but so far is consistently chuckle-worthy. EDIT - the show really picks up creatively going into the second season. Well worth a watch.

very good show. manages to be a solid treatise on ethics and altruism in addition to being really funny. the "closest guess" gag in the first ep is a contender for joke of the year

the disney channel tone/mugging with added fart and boner jokes gave me violent flashbacks to my tween sibling having control of the remote, but this show advocates so thoroughly against the status quo I'm always complaining about and never let me down. it even manages to elegantly take the fantasy hypothetical of an afterlife and argue for changes we should make here and now, what we should accept in life and what we shouldn't. I'll hold a little piece of it with me until I find my ocean

I thought the first two seasons were pretty much perfect. The last two were a bit more meandering and uneven, but with the occasional very good and/or funny moment. I am amazed they kept such a weird show on network television for four years.

It's possibly the best show to have ever pondered about life, the human condition, and morality & ethics, while also being a supremely funny comedy, with a tight, quickly-moving story and a few genuinely surprising plot twists along the way. It's both intellectually and emotionally engaging, while also being goofy and wholesome and optimistic. It's all of the best things I expect from a sitcom, and trust me, you won't regret it when you binge the entire thing in two days.

The Good Place is a well-written sitcom that packs a few good surprises, plenty of good jokes, and a great cast with great chemistry.

Can feel a bit twee and cutesy and insular at points, but I also have respect for how tightly plotted and serialized it is for a sitcom, with cliffhangers and twists, etc. A few interesting experimental episodes too.

The majority of the world would choose this show's 'bad place' over their present existence. And the ethics lessons would be less of a chore for the viewer if they were delivered through the story and action rather than a literal lesson. And the repetition of phrases such as 'earned confidence' get a little boring. But still an entertaining comedy that I laugh at at least once an episode — a level that surprisingly few sitcoms achieve! — Goes downhill with each series.