“The Good Place” Articles

In essence, “What are my rights?” is private and individual. “What do we owe one another?” is personal and communal. It’s to shift from “What do I deserve?” to “What is best for us?”

If we reap what we sow, shouldn’t we pay more careful attention to where we invest our time and efforts? Let’s look at that together in this issue of Christ and Pop Culture Magazine.

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.

A list of our favorite things from 2019.

A list of our favorite things from 2019, from #25 to #21.

D. L. Mayfield recaps the season 3 finale of The Good Place, “Pandemonium.”

A list of our favorite things from 2018.

A list of our favorite things from 2018, #10 to #6.

I too am obsessed with the psychology of do-gooders and how they help us understand the world we live in through their failed attempts at perfection.

Why do we do the things we do, and what end do our lives serve?

D. L. Mayfield recaps and muses on the lastest episode of The Good Place, “Jeremy Bearimy.”

D. L. Mayfield recaps the latest episode of The Good Place, “The Snowplow”.

My immediate thought after watching “The Brainy Bunch” is that The Good Place is starting to feel a little too normal.

D. L. Mayfield recaps the season three premiere of The Good Place, “Everything Is Bonzer!”

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.

A List of Our Favorite Things from 2017