2. It’s completely unlike anything you’ve seen before

The Good Place is about the afterlife and the very first episode opens on a shot of Eleanor (Bell) finding out she is a) dead, and b) due to spend eternity in a suburban paradise.

This is not the heaven and hell that you were raised on, though: this is the Good Place (you can tell by all the frozen yoghurt stalls) and it’s pretty exclusive, as all-knowing architect, Michael (Danson), explains during an orientation video.

To break it down into its simplest terms, the afterlife is based on a point system: our actions on Earth are monitored from above, and we are assigned points – positive or negative – based on these actions.

At the end of our lives, only the cream of the crop, those with the very highest point totals, ascend to the Good Place.

As writer-producer Michael Schur explains to Nerdist: “It is a system of pure justice. The way I thought about that was the way you’re driving around LA and someone cuts you off—‘That’s negative eight points man!’ You don’t have to worry about judging bias. It’s like, this is the system, these are the points.”

Fair enough, we suppose.

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