Here is the next review of an old season of The Good Place. After the shocking twist of the first season finale where it was revealed that they were actually in the bad place this whole time, people must have been, err, dying to know what happens next. And we got the story that we did from here.
Season 2 overview: First, the members of the group later known as the soul squad had their memories of the last full season erased. This happened to them again and again as many resets of their afterlife continued to happen over and over again. Michael then gave up on torturing them as he then wanted to help them get to the real good place. He gets a judge to send them to earth after their deaths would have been when the world starts again.
How this season was different from others: With the reality of where they were now known, it was hard to know if the show would have a good way or moving forward or even have a good ending in the end. But they went forward and even introduced a twist where Michael sought to join these people and help them so that they wouldn’t be tortured anymore. We even saw some of what was going on with the Janet romance.
What made it good: It was nice to see all of the ways that these people (well, four people, one demon, and one assistant from the good place) could work together with one episode being devoted to just the six of them and devoid of guest stars. It was a good idea to introduce the topic of potential changed fates so that we can see it reinvent itself heading into the next season.
What made it bad: Too much of it remained mysterious in some places with it too unknown at times whether or not Michael was a good guy now or still a villain. Even when they tried to explain him as good, they didn’t do as good a job as they could have as much of what was going on lead them to where they were with so much of that episode being given to the explanation instead of something else.
More thoughts on it: Like a lot of NBC shows, I missed a lot of this show as it aired due to reception issues where I lived and not caring enough to get caught up at a certain point in time, although I do hope that I can get it on DVD at some point in the future. With not too much else to say about this, I did like where they went with this show from this season and the idea, albeit one that was unrealistic.
That’s about it for this post. I don’t know yet if I’ll keep writing about these seasons of The Good Place or if I had some other random post that I could put in this blog instead. It’s not like I have many more of that that I can do in the future. I don’t know just how many of these random posts you’ll keep seeing as I may be doing a lot less of them or maybe the same number with no increases. We’ll see what goes on with it. Also sorry if none of this ever appears in the justified format again as there are changes that are going on. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.
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