The Good Place

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Season 2
  • Network: NBC
  • Series Premiere Date: Sep 19, 2016
Season #: 4, 3, 2, 1
Metascore
87

Universal acclaim - based on 10 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 10
  3. Negative: 0 out of 10
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Critic Reviews

  1. Collider
    Reviewed by: Adam Chitwood
    Sep 20, 2017
    100
    The Good Place is pure, unfiltered joy that also happens to contain all the ingredients that make it great television. ... The second season maintains The Good Place’s mantle as one of the very best shows on television right now.
  2. IndieWire
    Reviewed by: Steve Greene
    Sep 20, 2017
    100
    It continues to be a thoughtful consideration of what we owe each other. And it’s also one of the funniest shows on this plane of existence.
  3. RogerEbert.com
    Reviewed by: Brian Tallerico
    Sep 27, 2017
    90
    The best show on network television. Michael Schur’s hysterical deconstruction of karma is reaching for new levels of brilliant absurdity in its second season after blowing people’s minds with the twist at the end of the first.
  5. New York Magazine (Vulture)
    Reviewed by: Jen Chaney
    Sep 19, 2017
    90
    After delivering one of last fall’s most assured, instantly delightful debuts, in take two, the series solidifies its status as the most intellectually engaging comedy on television.
  6. UPROXX
    Reviewed by: Alan Sepinwall
    Sep 19, 2017
    90
    The good Good Place news: this is still a wonderful show--better, in many ways, now that creator Mike Schur has laid his cards on the table for us all to see. The new installments are livelier and funnier than before, particularly the third and fourth episodes.
  7. Newsday
    Reviewed by: Verne Gay
    Oct 17, 2017
    88
    Yes, The Good Place is strange--also ridiculously inventive, silly, smart and strangely, unexpectedly deep.
  8. The Atlantic
    Reviewed by: Sophie Gilbert
    Sep 20, 2017
    80
    There’s a distinct plan in place, one that opens up all kinds of new narrative ground for the show to explore. Along the way, it gets to pursue the most fascinating questions it set up last season. What does moral growth really mean?
  9. Yahoo TV
    Reviewed by: Ken Tucker
    Sep 20, 2017
    80
    The Good Place is very well written, full of good jokes about bees and clowns and clam chowder. But it’s got another layer: it’s also about power dynamics and morality systems--how they shift and mutate depending on how people interact.
  10. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: James Poniewozik
    Sep 19, 2017
    80
    The Good Place proves it’s still able to surprise, while staying rooted in ideas that make it more than the sum of its twists.
  11. Salon
    Reviewed by: Melanie McFarland
    Sep 18, 2017
    80
    The delicious evil of The Good Place, [is] the hidden detail that makes it such a gem worth picking up in season two. ... The first season finale paved the way for a reboot that takes several episodes to settle in this new season but basically remakes the series into a tongue-in-cheek indictment of the office politics and the ruthlessness of middle management.

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#51 Most Discussed TV Season of 2017

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User Score
8.5

Universal acclaim- based on 173 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 159 out of 173
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 173
  3. Negative: 9 out of 173
  1. pablozky21
    Sep 28, 2017
    10
    The Good Place is everything a show in the peak TV era should be: bold, inventive, creative and, most importantly for a comedy, fun. It throwsThe Good Place is everything a show in the peak TV era should be: bold, inventive, creative and, most importantly for a comedy, fun. It throws tropes out of the window and uses them for joy. It uses twists more effectively than most drama series, enhanced by the amazing performances of the cast and the excellent writing of the team behind the camera. Everything about the show is a bliss, and it's worth checking out and staying around to see what they come up with next.… Full Review »
  2. Ededed
    Nov 21, 2017
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click full review link to view. Getting worse by the episode.

    Remember when Ted Danson was actually funny? Remember when he dressed better? The scripts create no sympathy for the lead characters except for Janet. I keep hoping they send all four of these shallow and increasingly unlikable characters to an old style “bad place” and save us the trouble of the weak stories. This year’s plot lines make me think Michael is the one who is actually being tortured and the rest of the characters are in on the story within the story.

    Thought this was going to be a better show based on the cast and a somewhat interesting premise but so far severely disappointed.    … Full Review »
  3. Octomort
    Nov 4, 2017
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click full review link to view. At best mediocre. I would have liked to see this work but, it just doesn't. pretty much the same joke each episode, something went wrong and ethics were considered. Only character which invokes empathy is Janet, ironically an android has the most human plot. It is a weak show especially for such potentially strong performers. If you want to try wait until the season has finished and try binge watching, I find binging comedy has the effect of compressing laughs together. which for this series will only be mild chuckles at best.… Full Review »
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