the first season and the first couple episodes of the second season only)
I'd been intrigued years ago when the show premiered on NBC but I didn't watch. As a born-again Christian, I'm not usually fond of Hollywood's depiction of our final destination(s) and usually shy away from shows with that focus. I made an exception for Supernatural but to this day, I wish they'd stuck with the initial premise of bros on a road trip hunting bad things rather than developing a complicated and messy 'verse with angels, archangels and a god who turned out to be the ultimate Bad Guy in the end...but that's neither here nor there.
One day last month, I was really bored and watched the first episode of The Good Place on Netflix. It was unique and funny enough that I watched a few more episodes, then in the world's slowest "binge", I made it through the first season and the start of the last season. Some time a while ago, I was spoiled to the fact that the good place was really the bad place but I wasn't expecting that to be revealed until the last season, maybe the series finale. I'm not loving the show's serial format--miss the week before and be lost during the new episode--and for some reason, Jianyu (sp?) turning out to actually be Jason Mendoza kind of irritated me, as does how stupid Jason is (though I like the actor just fine). I found myself getting kind of bored as season one dragged on, and I've just now gotten to the episode where Michael proposes the core quartet works with him in changing the bad place to a new kind of torment (I don't know their answer yet).
Right now, the show really isn't working for me. But if someone, or several someones, come along and say it gets so much better, stick with it, you'll be happy you did, I'll keep watching.
FWIW, Janet is by far my favorite character right now, though other than Jason, I pretty much like everyone.
