Lost was not at all the right show to tackle the concept of a redemptive afterlife. It sucked because they tacked the idea on to a show that was supposed to be a grounded scifi/adventure show, probably so they didn’t have to write plot for half of the last season.

That was actually the most healthy relationship I have seen on tv, or in real life.

You never really realize how many TV relationships are codependent until you see one that so clearly isn’t.

Yeah it's something I only realised later on but not only did they improve the lives of many others by providing a system that lets you improve in the afterlife, but also provide a way (albeit unknowingly) for life on earth to be improved. The increased number of residents in the good place ultimately leads to more…

I have no idea why, but Mike O’Malley’s Doorman always makes me tear up when he gets excited about frogs. I’m going to call it: most underrated TV guest performance.

Ha, maybe he got it on loan from the Bad Place library. I bet Shawn had a bunch just lying around for torture purposes.

I really wanted to like The Misery Index, but those Impractical Joker guys are grating and unfunny.  She’s being wasted there.

I want all of the show’s leads to immediately be cast on new shows, please.

My favorite joke was Chidi taking a break to read a garbage Dan Brown book, because I decided to do the very same thing yesterday as well. Those books are fucking terrible and I love them.

I will add another vote for Russian Doll. It’s the most Good Place-feeling show I’ve encountered.

Your beautifully-written comment made me realise the symmetry between Eleanor’s “life force” landing on Michael’s neighbour’s shoulder and him making the decision to deliver the letter and Eleanor’s act of “goodness” in Australia - taking her taxi all over town to return the wallet and a bunch of personal belongings…

Chidi revealing he was ready to leave so many Jeremy Beremy’s ago but stayed to be with Eleanor was the one part that really wrecked me

Thanks to some momentary health stuff I am ridiculously hormonal right now, and this finale wrecked me. In a good way. But I am literally crying again through the comments. In a good way.

My favorite thing about the end was that each character got their own focus, specifically Eleanor and Chidi. I was half expecting them to walk through the door together, but that would have been unfair to each of them. I love that Eleanor wasn’t ready when Chidi was, and her leaving many Bearimys later was not…

Her charity idea was apparently *that* good

Was it ever explained how there’s a person in the medium place at all? I know it was explained in the early going, but that seems like a holdover from before they decided on the twist that actually no one had been getting into the good place for hundreds of years, because the points system was screwed up. By that…

Some recent shows that come to mind that I think could qualify: Forever, Lodge 49, Russian Doll, Kidding, Living With Yourself, Maniac, Bojack Horseman. 

I had to stop at each commercial break on DVR, one to stop ugly-crying and two because maybe more than any show that began in my lifetime, if I finished, it meant it was OVER, and I didn’t want to get there right away.

This was really beautiful. I went back and forth during the fist part on whether or not we’d get a glimpse of what happened when they stepped through the door, and I think I came down on hoping we didn’t. The show has dropped a lot of easter eggs for The Leftovers (which didn’t really give us a concrete explanation of…

The Good Place ushered in the recent sub genre of the philosophical comedy that fiercely advocated empathy, and it was arguably the best. I’d like to read all the philosophers Chidi cited. He was one of the great TV characters: not just representing a profession that hadn’t been on sitcoms before, and giving sitcom…