The Good Place Miniseries (Introduction)

The Good Place Main Cast

I recently rewatched “The Good Place” (spoiler warning), one of my favorite sitcoms in this century so far, and I noticed so much more about the show the second time around. I decided to write a miniseries analyzing different facets of the show – some complimentary, some critical – as a tribute to one of the most thoughtful and interesting sitcoms on mainstream US television. I hope you enjoy: 

Reflection 1: Revolutionizing Sitcoms: “The Good Place’s” Unique Window into Making Television
Reflection 2: Navigating the Afterlife’s Red Tape: Bureaucracy, Empathy, and Organization Change in “The Good Place”
Reflection 3: What Kind of Morality Does the Good Place Promote At the End of the Day, Part One: Utilitarianism (First part in a reflection on The Good Places’s Moral Framework, reflecting on how the show depicts utilitarianism)
Reflection 4: What Kind of Morality Does the Good Place Promote, Part Two: Deontology (Second part in a reflection on The Good Places’s Moral Framework, reflecting on how the show depicts deontology)
Reflection 5: What Kind of Morality Does the Good Place Promote, Part Three: Virtue Ethics (Third part in a reflection on The Good Places’s Moral Framework, reflecting on how the show depicts virtue ethics)
Reflection 6: Is “The Good Place” Really Good? Using Foucault to Explore Afterlife Engineering
Reflection 7: “The Good Place”, Annihilationism, and How Finitude Shapes Our Passions
Reflection 8: How Is Complicity for Current Injustices Actually Distributed: The Good Place’s View of the Modern World
Reflection 9: What The Good Place’s Ending Leaves Out for Ethics

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