The Good Place, Season 1

This mainstream television series may be about the afterlife, but it also serves as a platform for defining our morality here in the real world. We discuss the team behind its creation and how they crafted a narrative that avoids political correctness, while teaching us about ethics and positivity in a time of political trauma.

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• Science... For Her!
• Let's Get Physics Y'all
• EXPERIMENTING with Megan Amram
• The Lifeguard
• They Remain
• The Prisoner
• Brooklyn 99
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Additional Resources:

• Kantian comedy: the philosophy of The Good Place
• The Complicated Morality of The Good Place
• The Good Place: how a sitcom made philosophy seem cool
• Talking to a Philosopher About 'The Good Place'
• The Good Psychology In 'The Good Place'
• How Will NBC's 'The Good Place' Tackle Religion?
• How 'The Good Place' Became an Antihero Antidote
• 'The Good Place's Optimism Is a Salve for Despair in the Trump Era
• 'The Good Place' Helps Normalize Interracial Relationships
• 'The Good Place' is The Most Woke Sitcom on TV
• 'The Good Place' brings representation and genius-level comedy to the small screen