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<i>The Good Place</i> Is Still TV Heaven

NBC’s quirky hit returns with more moral philosophy, food puns, and otherworldly humor.
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This story contains spoilers through the whole first season of The Good Place.

The moment transformed from genially quirky sitcom to malevolently brilliant work of art came at the end of the first season, when Eleanor (Kristen Bell) finally twigged that something was extremely wrong with heaven. After dying in the first episode and being welcomed by an angel named Michael (Ted Danson) to a sterilized, fro-yo friendly paradise, Eleanor spent the series trying to earn her spot in The Good Place, since a clerical error seemed to

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