Why The Good Place is the Greatest Show Currently on Television
It's rare to find a comedy that genuinely loves its characters. Most comedies seem to thrive on humiliating their cast. Think about the painful bedroom antics of Friends, or the colliding egos of Arrested Development. Much rarer - perhaps because it's so hard to get right - is a comedy that finds humour in sympathy. The Good Place achieves this happy medium so effortlessly that you could be forgiven for overlooking how revolutionary it is. It's a show where you laugh with the