Comedy gets a reset with ‘The Good Place’

Criticism , Television Oct 26, 2018 No Comments

We are living through an interesting moment for television comedy. At least since Louie first aired in 2010, though arguably as far back as The Larry Sanders Show, the push has been into darker, more genre-defying areas, to the point where shows like Atlanta wear the mantle uneasily (and only when the Emmy-nomination season rolls around). Even those that are more explicitly comedic, such as You’re the Worst and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, have mental-health and substance-abuse issues at their hearts. For all its madcap energy, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt has a vein of trauma coursing beneath its candy-coloured exterior, as does the animated BoJack Horseman, which, despite telling the tale of an anthropomorphic horse in fictional “Hollywoo”, is as liable to make you cry as it is to make you laugh.

Perhaps this is one of the reasons that NBC’s The Good Place has always seemed a little anachronistic. In a world of unromantic rom-coms and otherwise pitch-black comedies, it really is content to crack wise.

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Matthew Clayfield

Matthew Clayfield is a journalist, critic and screenwriter.

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