The Good Place (Spoiler Alert)

"I know you're just barfing Wikipedia entries to avoid feeling." I love the horney Arizona trash, the indecisive Ethicist, the swamp city trash, the upper class people pleaser. I don't really know why the architect does what he does. Janet is of course everyone's favorite. I love it when they're all Janet in the void, I love those kind of moves.

The first season is a setup for the reversal of finding out it's not the good place. Blew my mind the first time I saw that.

The second season is a jumble of reboots of the mission, and it's about judging others. In a way it's all about the judgement of what is good, considering people have the potential to change. Perhaps the potential to change is a theme.

I took ethics with the glorious Claudia Card (at UW), and she was a student of John Rawls. So I enjoy all the ethical discussions.

I had not hear about the happiness machine. Should we just do everything to make everyone else happy? That would really improve the world, for others, but it's quite an onerous duty. It's the opposite of selfish and of course as always the middle is the best way to go on the continuum.

In this setting, playing with the concept of heaven, nobody gets into heaven in 500 years. It's almost like the Jehovah's Witnesses were right.

Their final point that ends the seasons available to me, is that life is so complicated now it's hard to understand all the unintended consequences of our actions.

What a glorious show.

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