Question 1

Is The Good Place woke?

Accepted Answer

The Good Place has a woke score of 31/100, which means it is not especially woke compared with higher-scoring titles. The Good Place is a comedy series about Eleanor Shellstrop, a selfish woman who dies and wakes up in what seems like heaven. She works with an ethics professor and new friends to become a better person while uncovering big twists about how the afterlife actually works. The show uses humor to explore moral philosophy, personal growth, and the flaws in strict judgment systems. It adds light touches on modern issues like workplace sexism and bureaucratic failure, but these stay secondary to universal ethics lessons.

Question 2

Is there DEI in The Good Place?

Accepted Answer

The biggest factors in our score are Institutional / cultural critique, Political / ideological dialogue, Identity-driven story themes. Eleanor Shellstrop, an ordinary woman who, through an extraordinary string of events, enters the afterlife where she comes to realize that she hasn't been a very good person. With the help of her wise afterlife mentor, she's determined to shed her old way of living and discover the awesome (or at least the pretty good) person within.

The Good Place

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