It’s no accident that opposition to cruelty appears in “The Good Place.” Not only does it reflect the struggle of the show’s characters against the demon Shawn (Mark Evan Jackson), who seeks and even revels in cruelty.
It is also tied to another concept, one that appears as a running theme throughout the series: redemption.
It is the struggle of redemption against cruelty that animates the episode, toward which “The Good Place” has been building for several seasons now.
What the demon Michael (Ted Danson) — the architect of The Good Place — discovers is that, contrary to Jean-Paul Sartre’s dictum in his play “No Exit,” hell is not always other people.
“The Good Place” begs to differ on that score: the show’s characters are hardly models of virtue when they meet.
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