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The Good Place Review, one of 2016's best

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buzzz worthy. . . Fall 2016 gave TV viewers many gifts this season with a diverse swath of programming.  "The Good Place" became my "must see" program. The new NBC comedy series "The Good Place" follows Eleanor Shellstrop (Kristen Bell), a New Jersey woman who comes to realize that she hasn’t been a very good person through a strange series of events. In the spirit of Everybody Loves Earl , she decides to make up for lost time by becoming better but there is a twist -- Eleanor is dead, a new resident in the "good place" or   the  afterlife.    She mistakenly ends up in the highly exclusive "good place" after living a self-absorbed life on Earth and upon discovering she is supposed to be in the "bad place" she starts to focus on a good deeds ruse to stay. Being paired with the wrong soul mate, the design of her eternal home not  reflecting her taste, and watching a flashback video that ...