Series · Prime Video · 2016
Pass it on
The Good Place
54Watch it awake.
A comedy that believes moral improvement is real. It borrows the philosophy and misplaces the judge.
The review
Almost no sitcom thinks you should become a better person and then shows the homework. This one does, with flashcards. The hole is the judge. A point system is not a god, and a self-improvement arc is not repentance. Still, it aims at the good, and television rarely does.
Watch it, then supply the judge it is missing. The show will not.
Journal
Keep The Good Place in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 54. Yours can differ.
The glance
Piety is the thin one.
Can conscience actually stop someone, or is reverence only in the shot so it can be mocked?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
Over the Garden Wall
65 instead of 54
Over the Garden Wall is still a series show, and it scores 65 instead of 54. What you gain is stewardship: The whole plot is getting the children back to a house where they are known.
The eight
- 5Industry
Study is the plot. They read. They practice.
- 6Household
A made family of people who were failures on earth.
- 4Piety
It wants the afterlife and will not say whose. The points system is the tell.
- 6Courage
Becoming decent is treated as hard, which is the brave part.
- 5Republic
Ethics as a civic problem: what we owe other people.
- 6Temperance
The joke is at their vices, and the vices are supposed to shrink.
- 6Truth
It is serious about the question and light about the homework.
- 5Stewardship
The hope is that a person can be handed back better. The ending argues about who gets to decide.
Where to watch
Finding the page.
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