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The Good Placeis not typically described as a political show.
What kind of messed-up place would turn away refugees?
If you will, they gerrymandered the election process.
The six committee members immediately vow to do something about this, which gives Michael hope.
But it seems fair to assume they lean left.
For starters, theyre all dressed like they shopped at L.L.
(Id ask why theres a farmers market in the Good Place, but this makes total sense.
Heaven is filled withtonsof farmers markets, and black raspberries are in season thereall the time.)
The members of the committee are decent.
We have rules, procedures, says Meg (Tatiana Carr), one of the committees members.
We cant just do stuff.
In other words, when everyone else goes low, the Good Place Committee goes high.
And it takes freakinforever.
Michael is infuriated by this.
And that deeply concerns us, Andie (Denise Sanchez), another committee member notes.
Have you seen the memorandum we wrote about how concerned we are?
And also, the Bad Place in this analogy is America.
But its not the only scene that works on this level.
Using Doug Ewing of Scaggsville, Maryland, (shout-out to Howard County!)
Thats a quandary thats relevant not just to politics, but to basic human existence.
Government cant solve all our problems, especially not when much of it is still shut down.
So what the hell?
Lets find out ifThe Good Placecan.
