The popular Netflix comedy series is your perfect start to the new year

According to Chris Snellgrove
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After the general debauchery of New Year’s Eve passes, everyone faces the same challenge: living up to the ambitious resolutions we set the night before. “New year, new me” is easy to say out loud, but even those who like to keep their resolutions face a difficult question: where the hell can you learn enough to become a better person this year? Fortunately, the answer is easier than you think. All you have to do is stream Good place on Netflix for one hilarious lesson after another on how to become a better person.

The story of the Good Place

Long before Good place landed on Netflix, impressed NBC viewers with its very unique premise. We follow one character who is sent to “The Good Place” after his death, knowing full well that he doesn’t deserve eternity in sitcom heaven. Deciding to fake it until she makes it, she decides to learn more about how to be a good person, but all the philosophical and ethical knowledge in the world can’t prepare her for the twists her afterlife is about to take.

Good place it’s tearing up the charts Netflix thanks to its stellar cast, including Kristen Bell (best known for Veronika Marsova), as the woman apparently sent to heaven by mistake. William Jackson Harper (who was in everything from Midsummer on Ant-Man and the wasp: Quantum mania) plays his ethics teacher, and their quartet is rounded out She-Hulk veteran Jameela Jamil (who plays the ditzy party girl) and Acolyte veteran Manny Jacinto. Meanwhile, they meet two new allies Good place: a charismatic architect played by Ted Dansen and a kind of walking, talking (not to mention omniscient) Wikipedia played by D’Arcy Carden.

One of the best comedies ever

Once you watch Good place on Netflix, you’ll better understand why it’s considered by many (including us!) to be one of the best-written shows in the entire Golden Age of TV. Short seasons planned well in advance mean the show has great arcs for each character and a lot more twists and turns than you might expect from its premise. Plus, when it didn’t win almost enough for our taste Good place was a veritable awards darling, garnering 14 Primetime Emmy nominations and two Golden Globe nominations, and taking home a Peabody and four Hugo Awards.

And now that a new group of fans are coming forward Good place on Netflix is ​​learning to live up to its critical reputation. On Rotten tomatoesthe show has an impressive critical rating of 97 percent and ratings (via Popcornmeter) of 89 percent. It’s an amazing show to watch for the first time and even more rewarding to return to, and the show’s amazing and ambitious storytelling stands out even more at a time when most shows (especially the exclusive streaming) are canceled before they can complete their run.

Can you find? Good place as heavenly as we did after streaming it on Netflix, or will you decide that this is the kind of show only Bad Janet can appreciate? You won’t know until you experience it yourself, practically starting the new year. But be warned: after a few episodes of this spirited sitcom, other TV comedies will seem like they came straight from the wrong place.