10 TV Episodes NOBODY Was Ready For
3. Michael’s Gambit - The Good Place
This comedy-drama from Michael Schur shares its name with an interpretation of Heaven; a beautiful suburban neighbourhood populated by the best and brightest humanity had to offer.
And also Eleanor Shellstrop.
Played by Kristen Bell, Eleanor lived a pretty torrid life until her untimely death via a truckload of erectile dysfunction pills. However, due to an administrative error, she finds herself in The Good Place by mistake.
At least, that's what we think happens, until the finale of Season 1 proves otherwise.
As it turns out, Eleanor and her seemingly do-gooder friends have actually been in The Bad Place the entire time!
Michael, the angel-like "architect" assigned to watch over them, reveals that he designed their setting as a form of unconventional torture. Once he gets found out, Michael wipes the minds of his four prisoners, starting the entire experiment over again.
This revelation had everyone fooled. The show is literally called "The Good Place", for Pete's sake! No one thought that it would go in this direction, and this reveal just ratcheted up the tension for the incoming second season.
Schur, you've done it again, you mad genius.