I recently finished bingeing the second season of The Good Place<\/i> on Netflix (created by the brilliant and prolific Michael Schur). Happily, a forthcoming third season has been announced.<\/p>\n
Usually I can give a simple reason why I like a TV series. Shows can be clever, or absurd, or laugh-out-loud funny, or emotionally engaging, or dark and disturbing, or daringly innovative and rule breaking, or philosophically challenging, or are able to teach you things you didn’t know.<\/p>\n
The Good Place<\/i> is all that and more. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a TV series hit so many bases at once.<\/p>\n
The premise is simple. Essentially, it takes a certain well known existentialist play and refashions it as an absurdist comedy for the Millennial age.<\/p>\n
But where it goes from there is wondrous. After having seen the first two seasons, I now find myself regarding the people around with greater appreciation, and with gratitude for our shared humanity. How many side-splittingly funny comedies can claim to have that effect?<\/p>\n
While I wait for the third season, I may just go back and watch the first two again. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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