'The Good Place' Gets Down To Earth, Where It Continues To Delight

Goodness feels so freaking quaint sometimes.

But goodness is indeed what The Good Place, which returned for its third season Thursday night on NBC, is about. It is about people trying to be good — and it's also one of the silliest, cleverest, smartest comedies on TV.

[This is where I tell you that "spoilers," so to speak, abound, in that we're going to talk here about the things that have already happened on this show up to and including the third-season premiere.]

is also unusual in that its first and second seasons were practically different shows. In the first, Eleanor Shellstrop (Kristen Bell) thought she was in heaven. In its second, she knew she wasn't.Eleanor and her friends had realized that they weren't in heaven; they were in hell. And in the third season, the entirea Taco Bell.