# The Good Place **URL:** **By** Paul Meany, Jacob T. Levy, Natalie Dowzicky **Published:** April 8, 2020 --- The Good Place argues, time and again, that the perpetual uncertainty about what happens _next_ is part of what makes life so precious and magical. The Good Place is a show that lays out a moral vision for the world that’s surprisingly sophisticated and deeply informed by academic philosophy — a vision that puts learning, and trying to do good front and center. We follow the journey of four characters who thought they were in The Good Place, but later learned they were in The Bad Place because they didn't earn enough points on Earth by doing good things. In four seasons they show how the point system that determines your fate in the afterlife is faulty. How did NBC's The Good Place teach us how to be good? Does The Good Place make moral philosophy digestible? Is The Good Place about striving for moral change?