The Morals of The Good Place

Any show can talk moral philosophy. But not every show to do so actually builds its episodes around those concepts like The Good Place did. Bortles!

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Links to sources:
Storytelling and Mainstream Television Today - A Dialogue
https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv5rf...
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/6...

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Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
2:21 Moral Desert
3:48 Contractualism
6:21 Alternatives and 'working through'
10:07 Conclusion

In The Good Place, Eleanor, a deceased saleswoman who lived a morally corrupt life, finds herself in a heaven-like afterlife in a case of mistaken identity and tries to hide her past in order to stay there. The Good Place is an American fantasy comedy television series created by Michael Schur. It premiered on NBC on September 19, 2016, and concluded on January 30, 2020, after four seasons and 53 episodes.