In Season 3, The Good Place succeeded in embracing its contradictions

The Ringer

After three seasons, Michael Schur's comedy "is a horrifically dark vision of an unjust cosmos where virtually the entire human race is condemned to eternal suffering in the afterlife, unbeknownst to the living," says Alison Herman. "It is also a sunny, upbeat, congenitally kind sitcom from the creator of Parks and Recreation. Prior to its third season, which came to a conclusion on Thursday night, the NBC comedy was able to foreground the second version of itself while obscuring the first. In its latest volume, however, The Good Place no longer hid its contradictions—initially to its detriment, and then, eventually, to its advantage."

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