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By Chris Snellgrove
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After the general New Year’s Eve debauchery has died down, everyone has to face the morning with the same challenge: sticking to those ambitious resolutions we made the night before. “New year, new me” is easy enough to say out loud, but even those who love to keep their resolutions are stuck with a difficult question: where can you learn enough to become a person better this year? Fortunately, the answer is easier than you might think. All you have to do is stream The Good Place on Netflix for one funny lesson after another about becoming a better person.
Plot The Good Place
Long before The Good Place Landing on Netflix, it impressed NBC audiences with its very unique premise. We follow one character who is sent to “The Good Place” after she dies even though she knows very well that she does not deserve eternity in heaven situation. Deciding to fake it until she makes it, she decides to learn more about being a good person, but all the philosophical and ethical knowledge in the world can’t prepare her for the twists and turns her life has left. death is about to take him.
The Good Place has been tearing up the charts Netflix thanks to its wonderful cast, including Kristen Bell (best known for Veronica Mars) as the woman apparently sent to Heaven by mistake. William Jackson Harper (who has been in everything from Midsummer i Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania) plays her ethics teacher, and their quartet are rounded off by Hi-Hulk veteran Jameela Jamil (who plays a disty party girl) and Acolyte veteran Manny Jacinto. Meanwhile, they meet two new allies in The Good Place: a charismatic architect played by Ted Dansen and a sort of walking, talking (not to mention omniscient) Wikipedia played by D’Arcy Carden.
One of the Best Comedy Shows
Once you watch The Good Place on Netflix, you’ll better understand why many (including us!) consider it one of the best written shows in the entire Golden Age of Television. Short seasons that are planned well in advance mean that the show has great arcs for each character and a lot more twists and turns than you might guess from its premise. Plus, even though he wasn’t winning almost enough for our taste, The Good Place It was a veritable prize, garnering 14 Primetime Emmy nominations and two Golden Globe nominations while taking home a Peabody as well as four Hugo Awards.
And now that a new crop of fans are checking out The Good Place on Netflix, they learn that it lives up to its essential reputation. Ar Rotten tomatoesthe show has an impressive critical score of 97 percent and an audience score (via Popcornmeter) of 89 percent. It’s an amazing show to watch for the first time and even more worth revisiting, and the show’s amazing and ambitious storytelling stands out all the more in an age where most shows (especially those unique to streaming) are canceled before they can complete their run.
Will you find The Good Place as heavenly as we did after you streamed it on Netflix, or will you decide that this is the kind of show only Bad Janet can appreciate? You won’t know until you stream it yourself, effectively starting the new year with a bang. But beware: after a few episodes of this lively sitcom, other TV comedies will seem like they came straight from The Bad Place.
