The Twin Poles of Advent
Hope, love, joy, and peace are ours in grappling with the realities of death, judgment, heaven, and hell.
The Office as Purgatory
The show’s creators eventually begin to portray The Office as purgatory rather than hell.
The Good Place Finale: Death Is Bad, and Other Problems in the Afterlife
Why doesn’t the Good Place satisfy? It doesn’t satisfy because it’s an eternity of people getting literally anything they want—anything they can ask for or dream of or do—for the rest of all time.
The Good Place Recap: “Pandemonium” (Season 3, Episode 12)
D. L. Mayfield recaps the season 3 finale of The Good Place, “Pandemonium.”
The Good Place Recap: The Book of Dougs & Chidi Sees a Time Knife (Season 3, Episodes 10 & 11)
What if we resisted dehumanization as our first goal in life, as a way to reflect glory on the one who created us?
The Good Place Recap: Janet(s) (Season 3, Episode 9)
We are defined not just by who we are, but by who we are in relationship to one another.
The Good Place Recap: The Worst Possible Use of Free Will (Season 3, Episode 8)
D. L. Mayfield recaps the latest episode of The Good Place, “The Worst Possible Use of Free Will.”
The Good Place Recap: A Fractured Inheritance (Season 3, Episode 7)
D. L. Mayfield recaps the latest episode of The Good Place, “A Fractured Inheritance.”
The Good Place Recap: The Brainy Bunch (Season 3, Episode 3)
My immediate thought after watching “The Brainy Bunch” is that The Good Place is starting to feel a little too normal.
The Good Place Recap: Everything Is Bonzer! (Season 3, Episodes 1 & 2)
D. L. Mayfield recaps the season three premiere of The Good Place, “Everything Is Bonzer!”
Is Neighborly Love Enough in The Good Place?
The Good Place is an exercise in thinking through how we relate to each other as neighbors and what responsibility we take toward intervening in a broken world.
