Season of television series
Season of television series
The Good Place
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Starring
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No.
of episodes
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Original network
| NBC
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Original release
| September 20, 2017
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2017-09-20
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February 1, 2018
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2018-02-01
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List of episodes
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The second season of the
fantasy
comedy television series
The Good Place
, created by
Michael Schur
, began airing September 20, 2017, on
NBC
in the United States. The season is produced by
Fremulon
,
3 Arts Entertainment
, and
Universal Television
.
[1]
The season concluded on February 1, 2018, and consisted of 13 episodes.
The series focuses on Eleanor Shellstrop (
Kristen Bell
), a deceased young woman who wakes up in the
afterlife
and is sent by Michael (
Ted Danson
) to "the Good Place", a
heaven
-like
utopia
he designed, in reward for her
righteous
life. However, she quickly realizes that she was sent there by mistake and must hide her morally imperfect behavior (past and present).
William Jackson Harper
,
Jameela Jamil
, and
Manny Jacinto
co-star as other residents of the Good Place, together with
D'Arcy Carden
as an artificial being helping the inhabitants. Each of the episodes are listed as "Chapter (xx)" following the opening title card.
Cast
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Main
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- Kristen Bell
as Eleanor Shellstrop, a deceased, selfish saleswoman from
Phoenix, Arizona
who winds up in the Good Place by mistake. In order to earn her spot, she recruits Chidi to teach her the fundamentals of becoming a better person.
[2]
[3]
- William Jackson Harper
as Chidi Anagonye, a deceased professor of ethics and moral philosophy from
Senegal
. Assigned as Eleanor's soulmate in Michael's first Good Place experiment, he gives her ethics lessons in an attempt to make her a better person.
[4]
- Jameela Jamil
as Tahani Al-Jamil, a deceased, wealthy
English
philanthropist who believes she belongs in the Good Place. She forms an unlikely friendship with Eleanor, who initially dislikes her positive attitude, condescending way of speaking, and tendency to
name drop
.
[5]
- D'Arcy Carden
as Janet, a programmed guide and knowledge bank who acts as the Good Place's main source of information and can provide its residents with whatever they desire. Later, Janet gains a more humanlike disposition, and begins to act differently than the way she was designed.
- Carden also plays Bad Janet, a disrespectful version of Janet designed not to respond to residents properly.
[6]
- Manny Jacinto
as Jason Mendoza, a deceased amateur DJ and drug dealer from
Jacksonville, Florida
who winds up in the Good Place by mistake. He is introduced as Jianyu Li, a
Taiwanese
monk who took a
vow of silence
. Later, Jason proves to be an immature and unintelligent, but kindhearted
Jacksonville Jaguars
and
Blake Bortles
fan.
[7]
- Ted Danson
as Michael, a Bad Place architect who runs the Good Place neighborhood in which Eleanor, Chidi, Tahani, and Jason reside. Michael has a deep affinity for the mundane aspects of human life, like playing with paper clips or searching for one's car keys. In the first season finale, it is revealed that he has been tricking the four humans all along and is actually a
demon
torturing them, though he later teams up with them. "Michael" is a
Hebrew
name meaning "who is like God?"
[8]
Recurring
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- Tiya Sircar
as Vicky Sengupta, a Bad Place demon who is introduced as the "real Eleanor Shellstrop" in the first attempt of Michael's torture plan.
- Marc Evan Jackson
as Shawn, Michael's wicked boss. Shawn gives Michael two chances to pull off the torture experiment, and later turns against him when he finds out about Michael's betrayal.
[9]
- Maribeth Monroe
as Mindy St. Claire, a deceased corporate lawyer and
cocaine
addict who just barely toed the line of earning enough Good Place points before her death and thus was awarded her own private Medium Place.
- Jason Mantzoukas
as Derek, a wacky artificial rebound boyfriend created by Janet.
- Rebecca Hazlewood
as Kamilah Al-Jamil, Tahani's massively successful and competitive younger sister.
- Maya Rudolph
as Judge Gen (short for Hydrogen), an eternal judge who rules on interdimensional matters between the Good Place and the Bad Place.
- Josh Siegal as Glen, a bad place demon who acts as a Good Place resident. Siegal is a writer on the show and stepped into the part initially in the first season when the original actor was unable to secure a
travel visa
.
[10]
Guest
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- Leslie Grossman
as Donna Shellstrop, Eleanor's mother.
- Dax Shepard
as Chet, a Bad Place demon responsible for torturing people guilty of toxic masculinity. Shepard is also the real-life husband of Kristen Bell, who plays Eleanor Shellstrop.
Episodes
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Critical reception
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The second season received acclaim from critics. On
Rotten Tomatoes
, it has a rating of 100%, based on 58 reviews, with an average rating of 8.95/10. The site's summary states that "By voluntarily blowing up its premise,
The Good Place
sets up a second season that proves even funnier than its first."
[23]
On
Metacritic
, the second season has a score of 87 out of 100, based on reviews from 10 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".
[24]
Television critics' top 10 lists
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The Good Place
ranked fifth on
Metacritic
's "Best of 2017: Television Critics' Top 10 Lists". The list is determined by giving a score to each show based on the number of times it appears in year-end top ten lists of various major TV critics and publications.
[25]
Accolades
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For the
70th Primetime Emmy Awards
, the series received two nominations?
Ted Danson
for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series and
Maya Rudolph
for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series.
[26]
For the
34th TCA Awards
,
The Good Place
won for Outstanding Achievement in Comedy, and received two other nominations?Program of the Year and Individual Achievement in Comedy for Ted Danson.
[27]
Ratings
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Notes
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a
b
Information taken from credits of each episode
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a
b
The second-season premiere aired as one hour-long episode, but the on-screen title identified it as "Chapters 14 & 15" of the series.
References
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.
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.
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April 19,
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.
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.
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.
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'This Is Us' and 'The Good Doctor' score big in premiere week broadcast Live +7 ratings"
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'The Orville,' 'Once Upon a Time,' 5 more shows double in week 2 broadcast Live +7 ratings"
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