<em>The Good Place</em> Wonders How to Reform #MeToo’s Disgraced Men
This post contains spoilers for the second episode of The Good Place’s fourth season.
The Good Place’s kooky philosophical explorations have addressed touchy current topics before—refugees, artificial intelligence, ghosting. Now the NBC sitcom raises another one of the toughest questions of our era. Can the men exposed by #MeToo be redeemed?
Over the show’s first three seasons, the heroes of escaped their hell-disguised-as-heaven and embarked upon a dimension-hopping quest to enter the actual Good Place—only to find out that no human had qualified for eternal bliss in hundreds of years. At the end of last season, their bid to convince the all-knowing Judge (Maya Rudolph) that universal damnation was unjust reset the show to something like its original premise: People who weren’t good on Earth get sent to something that looks like Heaven. But this time those people aren’t enduring
