Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I would like to humbly propose the following was among the unfortunate list of the snubbed in the wake of the Hollywood Foreign Association announcing the 77th annual Golden Globe nominations on Monday. I’m referring to NBC’s fantastic The Good Place, which didn’t score any nominations this year, ahead of the ceremony that will air on January 5, and it’s a shame. This series about a group of people in the afterlife created by Michael Shur is one of those rare shows that tries (and repeatedly) transcends the limits of what it is, which is an hour-long comedy that lives on broadcast TV. What you get when you tune in, though, in addition to superb performances from Kristen Bell, Ted Danson, and the rest of the fine cast is a series that grapples with weighty questions like what it means to be a good person and what our responsibilities as humans are to the rest of our fellow man.
That last part, in fact, is what Shur said in a recent interview is the whole point of The Good Place — about how “you can be a good person in a vacuum,” but at some point, being alive no Earth means interacting with other people and hopefully leaving them and everything else around you better as a result. But while the show may have been overlooked by the critics for at least one Golden Globe nod, it’s nevertheless continuing to be embraced warmly by a whole different and maybe even much more important audience: Viewers, who once again have made the show the most-watched series for the week on Netflix.
BGR Top Deals:
- 10 Amazon Green Monday deals that are better than Black Friday 2019
- This $10 cable Apple doesn’t have the courage to make charges your iPhone and Apple Watch at the same time
Trending Right Now:
- Google Maps finally brought one of its best new features to iPhone
- Walmart’s Green Monday sale is just as big as Black Friday – here are the 10 best deals
- NASA broke the SLS fuel tank, but swears it did it on purpose
The 15 most-watched TV shows on Netflix right now originally appeared on BGR.com on Tue, 10 Dec 2019 at 09:29:13 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Read more here:: Boy Genius Report