Significant spoilers ahead for episodes of The Good Place that have already aired.
The Good Place is a rare television phenomenon: a show that suggests prison is evil and cops are bad.
Part of the way the show gets away with that thesis without getting the kind of pushback afforded to movements like Black Lives Matter is because it doesn’t seem to be about cops or prison at all. The show, which just launched its third season, is a high-concept fantasy sitcom about the afterlife. Eleanor Shellstrop (Kristen Bell) is killed in a tragic shopping cart accident and wakes up in what she believes is heaven, aka “The Good Place.” She appears to be there because of a bureaucratic slipup: they think she’s a crusading human rights lawyer rather…
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