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The Good Place · Season 2 · NBC

The Good Place Season 2

The Good Place Season 2 is a MUST-WATCH, BollyMeter 9.4/10. 13 episodes on NBC from 20 September 2017.

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BollyMeter9.4/10A perfect 100% on Rotten Tomatoes across 59 reviews; the season voluntarily detonated its own Season 1 premise and rebuilt the show from scratch - Rolling Stone called it one of the single best shows on TV.

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What BollyAI Thinks

Season 2 achieved a perfect 100% on Rotten Tomatoes across 59 reviews and is widely considered the show's creative peak. The season opened by disassembling the premise Season 1 had established and rebuilding it again with new rules - the critics' consensus noted that by voluntarily blowing up its own premise, the show set up a second season even funnier than its first. Rolling Stone called it one of the single best shows on TV: slyly intelligent, relentlessly creative, existentially profound. The Guardian identified the show's rare ability to work as both a light sitcom and a genuine philosophical inquiry. Entertainment Weekly said it felt like the show could do anything. The Trolley Problem episode won Hugo Awards for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form.

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The Room

100%critics positive · n=598.2/10IMDb audience
  • The Good Place has established itself as one of the single best shows on TV today: slyly intelligent, relentlessly creative, existentially profound and consistently funny.
    Rolling Stone
  • The show continues to work as a light sitcom, even as it fearlessly explores weighty philosophical questions and peels back layers of liberal self-delusion.
    Guardian

Standout Episodes

The hours worth arguing about — premieres, finales, and the turning points. BollyAI reads the room episode by episode.

  1. E5Existential Crisis9.5

    Michael confronts the philosophical implications of his own existence while Eleanor and the humans continue studying ethics - the episode where the show's satirical portrait of a demon who has absorbed too much human culture becomes something genuinely moving rather than merely funny.

    The moment: Michael's breakdown in the frozen yoghurt shop - the moment the show's comic architecture briefly opens into something much more uncomfortable.

Season Over Season

A near-impossible creative achievement: the show destroyed its first-season premise, rebuilt from scratch, and emerged at a higher quality level.