The Good Place is getting everybody to talk about religion and the afterlife

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“The question of who gets into heaven, and how, has provoked religious disagreement and sectarianism since the concept of religion entered human consciousness,” says Laura Turner. “It has also, in a charming surprise, been the subject of one of the most popular TV shows of the last year — the Michael Schur-created series The Good Place. When, in recent memory, has a television show led people to talk so much about heaven and hell, and to rethink their preconceptions of what seem like stodgy, irrelevant concepts in a secular society? Suddenly, everyone from the evangelical magazine Christianity Today to The Hollywood Reporter to The New Yorker is thinking about the afterlife.” ALSO: Jameela Jmail says “people make fun of how much of a fan I am of the show in real life.”