Eleanor Shellstrop (Kristen Bell) is dead.She is killed in an accident.Suddenly she wakes up in the Good Place and meets Michael (Ted Danson) there.He is an angel of God who has the task of building the green area.Eleanor learns from him that it is structured differently than the world religions accept: only the best people who have ever lived in the green area: people who have improved the lives of thousands through their humanitarian work.Only less than one percent of all people end up here - the rest of humanity comes into the red area and suffers hells there.
The green area is designed as a small, tranquil neighborhood that is perfectly tailored to the interests of all residents.In addition, everyone finds their perfect soul mate in the Good Place, with whom they also live together.Eleanor Seelenwander is the young deceased ethics professor Chidi Anagonye (William Jackson Harper).But problems suddenly occur in the green: huge ladybugs devastate the cities, garbage rains from the sky.Michael cannot explain all of this.Eleanor, however, has a possible answer - and inaugurates Chidi in her secret: she incorrectly landed in the Good Place!
The woman for whom all they think is another Eleanor Shellstrop, who now braised in hell.The Eleanor in the green area, on the other hand, was a selfish, vain and ruthless person throughout their lives.So there was a confusion that nobody noticed - but the beyond the intruder defends itself against the intruder.So that Eleanor does not fly up and the events calm down- without having to go to hell- Chidi and she develop a plan: he gives her ethics and philosophy lessons and teaches her how to become a flawless person whoDesigned in the green area.Can't go wrong at all, right?Oh but!
