‘The Good Place’ Crew Starts To Feel The Heat

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The Good Place is a show that’s difficult to explain to people who haven’t seen it. The premise is that a dead woman named Eleanor Shellstrop (Kristen Bell) accidentally winds up in the good part of the afterlife after a lifetime of being an awful human being. She has to learn how to not be a garbage person by secretly taking ethics classes from her alleged soul mate Chidi Anagonye (William Jackson Harper) while pretending to be a “good person.” Other series regulars include the hilarious Floridian Jason Mendoza (Manny Jacinto) and posh braggart Tahani Al-Jamil (Jameela Jamil). The show has plenty of gags and funny one-liners. Still, more than a slapdash sitcom, it’s also a serious examination of modern philosophy which questions the ethical foundations of our current society.

Since you clicked on a review of season four, I’m assuming that you are up to speed with the fact that Eleanor, Chidi, Jason, and Tahani were actually in the bad place as part of a Sartrean experiment to see if they could torture themselves for all eternity. The experiment failed. The crew ran away, and now they have teamed up with reformed demon Michael (Ted Danson) and not human Janet (D’Arcy Carden) to create an experiment to prove to the forces behind the good and bad places that humans…