Eleanor Shellstrop, an ordinary woman who, through an extraordinary string of events, enters the afterlife where she comes to realize that she hasn't been a very good person. With the help of her wise afterlife mentor, she's determined to shed her old way of living and discover the awesome (or at least the pretty good) person within.
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Eleanor sort of forgives her mom, who treated her badly and neglected her as a kid.
Tahani forgives her sister Kamilah (who she always had a strained relationship with, though it wasn't abusive), and seems to have forgiven her parents as well.
No, Not exactly although Jianyu (Jason) sends repetitive notes to Eleanors door (S1) it wouldnt be considered as stalking, and not to mention Micheal in (S1) was practically watching everyone to find a way to torture them.
There’s a sort of demented looking pony creature accidentally created when a character’s sketch comes to life in the final season; Janet has to put it to sleep. This does not happen on camera.
There’s a scene where a dog gets super unhealthy and fat because Eleanor neglects it while housesitting. She leaves the dog alone with way too much food so she can go to a Rihanna concert and as a result the dog gets very large and unhealthy
In season 2 episode 4 "existential crisis" Eleanor's childhood dog dies by suffocating to death in a hot car. It is not shown on camera but it is explained in excruciating detail.
No, although in season 2 (spoilers) there is discussion between two of the characters of a torture plot in which one character would accidentally kill another character's cat. It's not in graphic detail and is very quick.
A pet dog is launched onto the sun. The main character's mother accidentally kills her dog by leaving him in the car during a hot day. The death isn't shown, but is described and dismissed as annoyance by the mc's mother.
A character suggests downloading Micheal’s nudes and using them to blackmail him. This is idea immediately shut down. It’s also incredibly absurd as Michael is an extra-dimensional being who wouldn’t have any need to even take photos of himself, let alone nudes, though this brief joke may still be upsetting for some people
not explicitly CANNIBALISM but there’s a scene in “the trolley problem” where chidi runs over a guy with a train and a chunk of human meat flies into his mouth. it’s nasty lol
The main characters are dead, one died pulling a statue on themselves and another had a radiator dropped on their head. The falling objects are seems before cut to black
Janet puts her boyfriend that she created into a box and she says “hes as dead as he can be” and he’s still talking and she’s gonna go get rid of the box so yeah he’s kinda buried alive
Some people are hit by a trolley car (more than once), and although we see them only before they're hit, considering the amount of blood and "matter" that's splattered all over the driver every time he hits them, I'm sure their heads are squashed by the impact.
In the Trolley Problem episode, at least one of the simulations has Chidi run his friend over with a trolley. We don't see the body but a lot of blood splashes on Chidi.
Kind of. Spoilers inbound. In the ending of s3 ep. 10, Michael insists Eleanor take the last remaining portal key during a frantic escape from the Bad Place. Eleanor is pushed through the portal by Michael and he chooses to face the demons of the Bad Place alone to save the four humans.
Oh also s1 ep7 Eleanor publicly confesses that she doesn’t belong in the Good Place to save Chidi from the consequences of accidentally killing Janet.
There's a clown corner" in Eleanor's home in The Good Place which features paintings of clowns, as well as a scene in season 2 in which a clown is briefly shown in the middle of a montage.
The protagonist doesn't cheat, but she falls under the "disaster bisexual" trope. She struggles to commit in her relationships but it's not stated her sexuality is the culprit.
S2E5: In The Trolley Problem episode, Michael then takes Elenor and Chidi to a hospital and does another morality test where he has to talk to families of sick patients. This is brief and I do not remember any medical equipment being shown up close.
Many people mention/joke about wanting to kill themselves and (SPOILERS) several characters effectively do. See “does someone commit suicide” for more details.
Season 2 episode 6, Janet malfunctions and asks Michael to kill her. She doesn't kill herself but does use suicidal language. Season 4 episode 5, Derek reboots himself and uses suicidal language
Not the "wartime" sort of PTSD but it's heavily implied Eleanor is traumatized from her abusive childhood and breaks down in public over it at one point (triggered by a group of family toothbrushes).
Often crude humor from characters like Eleanor, Bad Janet, and various Demons of the Bad Place. Most is censored by the Good Place’s “profanity filter,” which replaces curse words with similar-sounding arbitrary nouns.
S1E1: 19 minutes in for 2 minutes there are flashing lights S2E3: when Tahani learns about her death it was in a club with some flashing lights in the background
People don't really take Chidi's anxiety seriously/just see it as a problem and frequently make him make decisions that they themselves could easily make even though they know he struggles with that. On several occasions characters try to "cure" him that way
Janet, who is a genderless being, is frequently referred to as a girl, and every time corrects the other person by saying "Not a girl", to the point where it is a running joke in the show.
The characters are dead to begin with. The main character, Eleanor is heavily coded as bisexual, as well as a few background LGBT characters. None of the deaths spoken about are hate crimes or traumatic as LGBT deaths usually are. Technically, LGBT people die, but not outside of the main plot of the show.
Since this is a show about the afterlife, all of the characters have died. However, we have no way of knowing what order they died in, as it is never specified. Also, given that many events can, unbeknownst to those on Earth, have happened before events that happened before them (due to Jeremy Bearimy), what does "first" mean, anyway?
There is a scene in season 1 where portions of the Nixon Tapes are played, including antisemitic content. The demons of the Bad Place who are acting as demons are also consistently sexist and misogynistic, which may bother some people to varying degrees.
**SPOILERS** Technically Jason and Janet. Jason is in his late 20s while Janet is infinite/as old as the universe itself. Janet appears as being in her 30s however, and there’s no power dynamic in their relationship.
Hell ("The Bad Place") is an important part of the plot throughout the series. It is mainly depicted through an absurd and comical lens, but the morality of eternal punishment is seriously discussed at times, especially later in the series.
As a running joke throughout the series, Eleanor makes comments about Tahani that are regarded in the final episode as problematic objectification. However, both characters are extremely lighthearted about the banter, as it is a running joke and the comments, however objectifying, are mainly complements.
Not in the traditional sense no, but a being creates another being as a rebound to get over someone else, so they're romantically involved with someone they created, then later in the series the creator being makes comments like "I guess he's my son and my ex, he's my son-ex-boyfriend" and the created being makes comments calling the one who created him his "mommy girlfriend" and other comments about her being both his mom and girlfriend. Neither of them are human or genetically related in the traditional sense but the comments and jokes they make could potentially be uncomfortable to a survivor of incest.
SPOILER: : : : while not dementia or alzheimers there are themes of people’s memories being reset (literally) by the architect and character(s) not remembering their own intimate relationships.
Some people classify the show as "philosophical fiction" as an analogy to science fiction. Existentialism, among other philosophies, is a frequent topic.
It depends of your feelings
Spoilert: all the character choose to die again but without heaven or hell because they have done everything they want in heaven so they show it like a good think but it can be trigger for people who didn't want the character to die
During Season 2: Episode 5, The Trolley Problem", dozens of people are hit by a trolley throughout several crashes. This often is gorey and includes flying body parts. (Obviously, trolleys aren't cars, but this is similar enough that I believe it falls in the same category.)
It's in the context of a first person shooter being played by Jianyu, but it could still be triggering for people with gun violence trauma (it was for me).
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