<em>The Good Place </em>Was a Metaphor All Along
Can moral philosophy teach people to be better? Can a television show?
This article contains spoilers through the series finale of The Good Place.
The architects of are two men named Michael. One, played by Ted Danson, is a demon in a skin suit whose job is to devise preposterous and subtly cruel scenarios with which to provoke maximum silliness among the four oddball characters in his care. The other is Michael Schur, ’s creator and showrunner, whose job is to devise preposterous and subtly cruel scenarios with which to provoke maximum silliness among the four oddball characters in his care. And both reveal themselves as having an ulterior motive in the end: the desire
