My review from when I watched it: A douchey woman, played by Kristen Bell, ends up in heaven due to a clerical error and has to pretend to be the person everyone thinks she is to avoid hell. She has the help of her nerdy ethics professor "soulmate", cue lots of cute odd couple/fake dating moments. I knew a REALLY BIG SPOILER going in that actually made the show way more fun for me, will probably make a spoilery post for anyone else who's interested, but will just say here that I thought it would run out of steam but instead it stayed interesting and the full season makes for a good story. It's made by the same people as Brooklyn 99 and Parks and Recreation, and has that mix of humour and drama, plus some exploration of the nature of good and evil, the possibility of redemption etc. AND instead of having a fat guy everyone is mean to, there's no fat people at all!
I knew there was a twist going in, but not what it was. So even though I was expecting something to happen, I was really blown away by the reveal. Ted Danson's evil grin was such an incredible moment.
Although I'm glad for myself to have been unspoiled, I bet watching it with the knowledge that they were really in the Bad Place was also an interesting experience! I have to imagine they were dropping clues the whole way.
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Although I'm glad for myself to have been unspoiled, I bet watching it with the knowledge that they were really in the Bad Place was also an interesting experience! I have to imagine they were dropping clues the whole way.
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They were! As I saw someone else say, Michael booting a dog into the sun was a pretty big red flag :)