10 Best Episodes Of The Good Place

10. Everything Is Fine - S1 E.1

The surrealist genius that was The Good Place was on display from the very start with this gem. While most first episodes of a series are happy enough to set up the general plot and character traits of its protagonists, there is so much more going on here.

The acting is all first rate, with Kristen Bell and William Jackson Harper as 'soulmates' Eleanor and Chidi portraying their characters' distinct differences to comedic perfection. Ted Danson is outstanding as the architect Michael, presenting a sickly sweet persona with deadpan perfection that in hindsight was always too good to be true.

But the genius of this episode is the use of surrealism to bring the absurdist aspects of the show to life. From the moment we saw giant frogs and flying shrimp creating chaos as Ariana Grande boomed away in the background, it was obvious that this was like no other show that we'd ever seen before.