‘Someone royally forked up’: how The Good Place turned hellish

The philosophical comedy is now so complicated that watching it feels more like homework rather than a hobbyFew sitcoms can effortlessly blend silly jokes with conversations about the time-space continuum and the purpose of life, but when it debuted in 2016, The Good Place was out of this world. After Eleanor Shellstrop (Kristen Bell) was killed by a truck advertising erectile-dysfunction medication, Ted Danson’s Michael – the dapper designer of her afterlife experience – infor