The Good Place: Season 1

I don't think any of you watched the first season of The Good Place. Here are some reasons you might consider watching The Good Place.

1. It was made by Michael Schur, who also made Parks and Recreation and Brooklyn Nine-Nine.
2. This season was only thirteen episodes long and the plan seems to be to make every remaining season just thirteen episodes long - a refreshing concession from NBC to try to be more like a cable network.
3. It's a high concept comedy, which is a rarity even today when there are literally hundreds of scripted shows on the air. In case you're unfamiliar, Kristen Bell has died and gone to heaven. Except it's not quite "heaven," but rather "the good place." (Bad people go to "the bad place.") Except Kristen Bell was a bad person. There's been a mistake! And her mere presence in the good place is causing it to unravel at the seams.
4. It raises interesting ethical and philosophical questions. Not in a deep or profound way - this is a 22-minute NBC comedy - but at least in a way that, again, differentiates it from anything else on TV.
5. Ted Danson!
6. After a bit of a rough start - not uncommon for a broadcast network comedy pilot, mind you - the show hits its groove and finds its characters and while rarely laugh-out-loud funny or shit-eating-grin goofy, it pulls you in with its own mythology and rules and history, sort of, like Lost used to do. Remember Lost? You loved Lost, once. (This isn't Lost.)
7. The first season finale pulled the rug out with a genuinely unexpected twist that enhances everything that came before it rather than cheapening it, and actually makes me more excited for a second season than I otherwise would have been. Kind of like Westworld. Ugh, you guys liked Westworld, at least more than I did. (This also isn't Westworld.)

That's what I've got. Give it a try. Or not! Look, I'm just saying, it's interesting and unique and feels a lot more rewarding at this point than - not to point fingers here but - other recent high-concept comedies on broadcast networks. (Yeah, what I'm saying is, this show is The Last Man on Earth.)