The Good Place lands a punch to the gut in S3 finale

Enlarge / Kristen Bell plays Eleanor Shellstrop, a former "Arizona trash bag" of a human being trying to become a better person in the afterlife. (credit: Colleen Hays/NBC)

After wowing audiences for two pitch-perfect seasons, season 3 of The Good Place got off to an uncharacteristically bumpy start. But even a less-than-perfect The Good Place is still a delight, and later episodes recaptured the magic that earned the series a spot on the Ars list of our favorite TV shows of 2018. The season 3 finale gave us yet another game-changing twist, and it broke a few hearts in the process.

(Spoilers for first three seasons of The Good Place below. And mea culpa on earlier spoilery headline.)

The Good Place has always kept us guessing, from the pilot episode in which Eleanor (Kristen Bell) realizes she's been admitted to paradise by mistake, to that shocking twist in the Season 1 finale that turned the original premise on its head.

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