Supercontext: an autopsy of media

The Good Place, Season 1


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This mainstream television series may be about the afterlife, but it also serves as a platform for defining our morality here in the real world. We discuss the team behind its creation and how they crafted a narrative that avoids political correctness, while teaching us about ethics and positivity in a time of political trauma.

Interested in the media we discussed this episode? Please support the show by purchasing it through our affiliate store:

  • Science... For Her!
  • Let’s Get Physics Y’all
  • EXPERIMENTING with Megan Amram
  • The Lifeguard
  • They Remain
  • The Prisoner
  • Brooklyn 99
  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 

Additional Resources:

  • Kantian comedy: the philosophy of The Good Place
  • The Complicated Morality of The Good Place
  • The Good Place: how a sitcom made philosophy seem cool
  • Talking to a Philosopher About ‘The Good Place’
  • The Good Psychology In 'The Good Place'
  • How Will NBC's 'The Good Place' Tackle Religion?
  • How ‘The Good Place’ Became an Antihero Antidote
  • ‘The Good Place’s Optimism Is a Salve for Despair in the Trump Era
  • 'The Good Place' Helps Normalize Interracial Relationships
  • ‘The Good Place’ is The Most Woke Sitcom on TV
  • ‘The Good Place’ brings representation and genius-level comedy to the small screen
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Supercontext: an autopsy of mediaBy Christian Sager and Charlie Bennett

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