The Good Place: Ethics and Class in the Afterlife | Tom Nicholas

Fuelled by my impatience for the release of The Good Place Season 4, today’s episode of Politix takes a look at the moral philosophy of The Good Place (created by Michael Schur for NBC) in order to consider what the show might reveal about classism in contemporary society and our tendency to conflate morality and class.

In this The Good Place analysis, we’ll particularly look at how, in The Good Place Season 1, Eleanor Shelstrop (Kristen Bell) and Jason Mendoza (Manny Jacinto) are often cast as working-class stereotypes who are not so much immoral as simply lacking in what Pierre Bourdieu refers to as cultural capital.

If you’ve enjoyed this The Good Place Video Essay then please do check out the rest of my Politix series in which I’ve undertaken critical analysis of BoJack Horseman, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and more.

Further Reading

The Forking Trolley: An Ethical Journey to The Good Place by James M. Russell
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Distinction by Pierre Bourdieu
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