Forking hell! Is The Good Place the ultimate TV show for our times?
(The Guardian Culture News)

Michael Schur´s series about heaven and hell was not meant to be topical, but it´s become the ideal antidote the news cycleModern Toss´s take on The Good PlaceIf there´s one thing that hit Netflix show The Good Place is absolutely, definitely not about, it´s The State of the World Today. Intentionally, anyway. For one thing, this feelgood sitcom isn´t even set in our world, but in a non-denominational afterlife you might call `Heaven`. This is the Good Place of the title, where Eleanor Shellstrop (Kristen Bell) finds herself in the show´s opening episode and soon concludes she´s been sent in error. The Good Place is for the likes of beautiful philanthropist Tahani (Jameela Jamil), silent Buddhist monk Jianyu (Manny Jacinto) and earnest ethics professor Chidi (William Jackson Harper). Eleanor, on the other hand, is the kind of garbage person who reads Celebrity Baby Plastic Surgery Disasters magazine and sells fake medicine to the elderly for a living. Still, understandably, she wants to stay, so spends most of season one trying to keep her secret from Michael (Ted Danson), the angel-architect overseeing the Good Place neighbourhood. Continue reading...