TV #1 of 2020: The Good Place, season 4 This heartfelt sitcom about trying to become a better person in the afterlife never quite surpassed its stellar first season, but it’s remained a surprisingly hilarious exploration of moral philosophy and a great showcase for the sort of tender character development creator Michael Schur perfected on …
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TV Review: The Good Place, season 3
TV #3 of 2019: The Good Place, season 3 Three seasons in, this sitcom about the afterlife is still one of the funniest, smartest, and most warm-hearted shows on television. It regularly redefines its own premise and is hard to describe without spoilers (and probably impossible to watch out-of-order), but I love that its exploration …
TV Review: The Good Place, season 2
TV #8 of 2018: The Good Place, season 2 I love this show, but it’s so hard to talk about without dropping spoilers! Suffice to say that it’s a sitcom about the afterlife, and that it’s probably the most serialized half-hour comedy you’ve ever seen. So much changes so fast that there’s no real status …
TV Review: The Good Place, season 1
TV #5 of 2017: The Good Place, season 1 I love this show so much! Kristen Bell plays a dead woman who gets welcomed to the show’s version of heaven for living such a good life – except there must have been some kind of mix-up, because she was actually kind of a terrible person …
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