‘BoJack Horseman’ and ‘The Good Place’ Took Us to Hell and Back

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In the penultimate episode of “The Good Place,” after four seasons wandering the afterlife, our dear-departed heroes finally make it to the destination promised in the title. It is, of course, beautiful, with lush gardens and buildings with alabaster walls.

It’s also familiar. The first time I watched, I felt like I knew this place. Was I recovering a memory from another life, or a state before life? Had I — good Lord — had I been to heaven?

Turns out I had, kind of. It took a few minutes of searching my memory and Google Images to realize that the location the producers chose to represent the Good Place was … the Getty Center, the art museum in the hills overlooking Los Angeles.

It’s a fitting choice for a humanist Hollywood reboot of paradise. “The Good Place,” whose finale airs Thursday night on NBC, is a slapstick survey of moral philosophy that places its faith not in a higher power (or a lower one) but in human culture and creation.

BountBooku on January 30th, 2020 at 02:02 UTC »

Good Place is ending? Fuck... I know you can only keep that premise going for so many seasons so it’s probably for the best, but I’m gonna miss it

1994californication on January 30th, 2020 at 00:39 UTC »

Bojack surprised me the most. It was not only a clever satire of Hollywood it also explored mental illness and the effects of dysfunctional families. Who would've expected that from a cartoon about an anthropomorphic horse. I'm really gonna miss it.

tunnnaka on January 29th, 2020 at 19:39 UTC »

Wait Bojack is ending????