The Most Optimistic Show on TV Is Over
<em>The Good Place</em>, NBC’s sitcom about the afterlife, ended with a heartening meditation on the meaning of a finite existence.
This story contains spoilers for the series finale of The Good Place.
Technically, , NBC’s freewheeling sitcom about the afterlife, ended its run last night. The hour-long series finale tied up loose plot threads, celebrated its characters’ relationships with one another, and dropped some heartening twists. For any show, even one as esoteric as , hitting these benchmarks alone would make for a successful departure. But the comedy’s most salient philosophical takeaway resists this neat formula of linearity. Or, as the former “Arizona dirtbag” protagonist Eleanor Shellstrop (played by Kristen Bell) finally comes to understand, “Working out the terms of moral justification is an
