After “The Good Place”: Three More Shows To Help You Think About Ethics, Philosophy, and Being a Good Person

The Good Place marks a weird experiment in TV: what if you made a half-hour sitcom about the afterlife that was all about moral philosophy? And what if, instead of quietly fading after a sparsely-viewed pilot, it became a modest hit and generated intense critical and fan conversation? What if it caused books like What We Owe Each Other by T.M. Scanlon to briefly hit the bestseller list?