This is a little gem that deserves a following. The title refers to where you go when you die if you were a good person. But in this case the female protagonist was not a good person and got there by mistake. The setting is reminiscent of a great series from around 40 years ago titled "The Prisoner", with Patrick McGoohan. In the current show the residents wear an outlandish blue and gold zig zag outfit, but the female protagonist (she is no heroine) wears a tee shirt and jeans. Everyone is a model of civil behavior, which she finds to be "bullshirt". She thinks that certain people are "ashholes" You can't swear there. Her guide is played by a very goofy Ted Danson. Although at first she feels out of place, then she learns that the "other place" truly is Hell, she decides that she wants to stay. The place a paradise, but her arrival bodes bad things coming. Paradise develops cracks in it. Earthquakes, and bad weather show up. Giant insects roam. Clearly she has to go to permit Paradise to return, but she is going to fight to stay.
I'll second Stew's recommendation here. The concept is going to drive some people crazy with speculation (and ultimately let them down, probably) over exactly where "The Good Place" is (heaven? hell? purgatory? Cincinnati?) and its purpose, but the actual comedy is so funny that I don't really care. Kristin Bell and William Jackson Harper have excellent chemistry as (possibly) mismatched soul mates and Ted Danson is a national treasure as the imperfect angel/architect/whatever of this particular Good Place.
If nothing else, this show has given me the image of Danson punting a poofy white dog into the sun, and for that I'll give it a full season.
I'm enjoying this as well.
It's back. And Sepinwall's take is that Ted Danson is outstanding in it.
Because of course he is.
Whenever I watch it, I keep thinking of Kristen Bell as Christina Applegate, because this seems like the type of role she'd take.
But yeah, Danson's good in it, especially since he got the nice heel turn at the end of last season.
Season 1 was funny and good. It got less good.