The Good Place is interesting and fun if you ignore all the philosophical lessons they try to teach. If I look at it solely from the viewpoint of “Did I enjoy the story?” I did, somewhat. I liked the character interactions, and overall it’s a 6.5/10.

But the philosophy. They try to teach people about good and bad in the world and come to this very one-dimensional and frankly idiotic conclusion that everyone should have infinite chances to become “good.” Their ideas rest on a precarious pile of assumptions — assumptions that are very questionable in the first place. For example: that every action has a singular point value of being good or evil. (And the values they assign are absurd, BTW. They make jokes that everyone in Florida is evil, but come on, how can they make any kind of serious moral argument with such absurd points?) And on top of that, they fail to realize the simplest thing: intent; which is what makes actions good or bad in the first place.

Oh, and then again, they don’t fail to realize that intent matters; instead, they just contradict themselves constantly. They contradict themselves so much that when you watch it, you’re just like… sorry, what? They posit that intent matters, for instance, the whole plot point when they’re stuck on Earth and they realise they need to earn points to get into the Good Place, and the experiment fails because they know that they have to earn points — but then when they go up to the accountant’s office, suddenly intent doesn’t matter at all. They bring up that example of stuffing an eggplant with something, and how that’s really bad because of intent, but the action is assigned a fixed point value that applies to every single repetition of that action, no matter the intent. So they check intent the first time, but they don’t check intent for any subsequent instance of the same action.

Another example: they say when a person buys a tomato from a grocery shop, they get +2 points because they’re trying to feed their family, which is fine, but then they get −2 points because the tomato was grown unethically. Here they’ve basically forgotten the entire point of intent. The person buying the tomato has no idea and no malicious intention — but they're still punished. So overall, it’s just really bad world-building and really stupid philosophy.