We ranked all the weirdos, jerks, and badasses on TheGoodPlace
Photo: Vulture and NBC In the opening minutes of NBC’s cult sitcom The Good Place, a bow-tied “architect” named Michael invites a recently deceased “Arizona dirtbag” named Eleanor Shellstrop into his office in the great beyond, to explain to her the secret of how the universe works. Starting with that moment, the show would go on to introduce a procession of memorable oddballs, some friendly and some unfriendly to Eleanor’s primary mission in death: to have a chill afterlife.
41. John Wheaton The Good Place writers have usually done a fine job of striking a balance between mocking our real world’s everyday annoyances and showing some compassion for those responsible.
37. Doug Shellstrop On the one hand, Eleanor’s dad is a terrible person, who barely parented his daughter during her first stint on Earth. On the other hand, without insensitive jerks like Doug Shellstrop failing to buy her birthday cakes, does Eleanor ever become Eleanor? 33. Toddrick Hemple and Lance Here are two exceptions to the “nondescript Bad Place employee” standard. These two demons nearly always appear not in human skin-suits but in their original forms: Toddrick as a lava monster, and Lance as a kind of toothy slug. Yet just like Chet and the rest, these two beasties talk like ordinary folks. For them, it’s always punch in, punch out … another day, another soul to torture.
29. Neil and Matt .youtube[data-uri="www.vulture.com/_components/youtube/instances/ck5yasih200133g676tb2u8yt@published"].border-top:before { content: 'Watch'; } The afterlife isn’t just divided into “good” and “bad” places. There’s also a vast administrative structure, including the Neutral Zone’s accounting office, where Neil and Matt tally up every good and bad thing humans do.
25. Donna Shellstrop Point: Eleanor’s mom is a terrible person, who barely parented her daughter during her first stint on Earth. Counterpoint: without her influence, where would Eleanor have learned dirtbag power moves like ordering a 7&7&7 ? 21. Brent Norwalk .youtube[data-uri="www.vulture.com/_components/youtube/instances/ck5yb73oo001l3g67gty0n8ay@published"].border-top:before { content: 'Watch'; } Determining the best The Good Place character involves more than just deciding which one we’d most like to hang out with. It has much more to do with what this person — or demon — brings to the story as a whole. Brent Norwalk is clearly a louse, with his unearned sense of entitlement and his dumb golf shirts.
17. Hypatia of Alexandria .youtube[data-uri="www.vulture.com/_components/youtube/instances/ck5ybewz7001u3g67wh16mahy@published"].border-top:before { content: 'Watch'; } You can call her “Patty.
13. Doug Forcett .youtube[data-uri="www.vulture.com/_components/youtube/instances/ck5yc66pm002c3g67to3ikoqb@published"].border-top:before { content: 'Watch'; } Ever noticed how many The Good Place characters are named Doug? There’s Eleanor’s dad and Jason’s dad . And then there’s Doug Forcett, the legendary human who figured out the universal points system while he was still a Canadian teenage stoner.
9. Judge Gen Before Eleanor and company bucked the system, the ultimate cosmic arbiter Gen hadn’t issued any rulings in a while, and was instead spending most of her time eating burritos and binge-watching television. But in a way that just made her an unlikely ally to the humans, if only because she’s developed some sympathy for the miserable flesh-bags — or at least wants us to keep making her favorite shows.
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