The Good Place season 1

13 episodes · 2016

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what happens

Due to an error, self-absorbed Eleanor Shellstrop arrives at the Good Place after her death. Determined to stay, she tries to become a better person.

how it went

Left to right is the season — its first episode to its last. Each remark sits in the episode it was made about.

FUN

how good a time it was

MEANINGFUL

how much it moved you

Two separate readings, not parts of the score — the score says how much of it held you, these say what kind of watch it was.

Read from 129 comments — 32 said when · across 9 episodes.

➖ steady — Holds one level all the way. Pulled both ways throughout — never simply one thing. In the last stretch it was tender and painful at the same time, which is the state people mean by being moved. Very little of it ever resolves.

Hover the curveDrag across the curve to see what people said at any point.

height: how intense it got, 0–100
gold above: how tender it felt. violet below — what it cost. Thick on both at once means it was doing both.
tension rail: how much was still unresolved
grey haze: how sure we are — wider means fewer people described it

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➖ steady — holds one level all the way

what people actually wrote

Grouped by where it was written, because a considered review and a reaction typed an hour after the credits are different things. Every quote links to its source.

Reddit24 read

“i went from loving michael to hating him in literally milliseconds”
ctadgo▲ 611about 50–50% inread it ↗
“Wait, so like, the ENTIRE show has been the bad place??? Like, from the beginning?? WHAT? YELLING AT MY SCREEN.”
RaeADropOfGoldenSun▲ 389about 0–100% inread it ↗
“That was a very satisfying ending.”
▲ 219about 85–100% inread it ↗
“this turn really surprised me”
rpodric▲ 109about 75–100% inread it ↗

episodes

5 of 13 with a score

Every episode has a page — its synopsis, who was in it, and a place to rate it. A number appears when discussion or ratings support one; where there is neither, the dash is the honest answer.

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