15 feel-good shows to binge over the holidays

THE GOOD PLACE — “The Ballad of Donkey Doug” Episode 306 — Pictured: (l-r) Kristen Bell as Eleanor, Jameela Jamil as Tahani — (Photo by: Colleen Hayes/NBC)

The Good Place

Series availability: 2 seasons, 26 episodes
Watch now on Netflix.

The Good Place is arguably one of the best new shows on TV ,and it’s so over the top and quirky that it’s bound to bring a little light to those cold, lazy winter afternoons. There are only 26 episodes on Netflix, but if you pace yourself you can try to spread them out for as long as possible. There could be a million episodes, and it still wouldn’t be enough. It’s just so forking good!

For those of you living under a rock, The Good Place stars Kristen Bell as Eleanor Shellstrop, who wakes up to discover that she’s dead and she’s in the afterlife. To her delight (and surprise), she has made it to The Good Place. After being shown around the neighborhood and getting an explanation about how things work in her version of The Good Place by Michael, the town’s architect, she quickly realizes there’s been some kind of mistake — and she doesn’t belong there. They have the wrong Eleanor.

Eleanor reveals this secret to her supposed “soulmate” Chidi, and even meets someone else who realizes they let them into the Good Place by mistake. She tries to make herself a better person so that she doesn’t feel so guilty about landing in a place with so many saint-like people, so Chidi gives her ethics lessons. As you might imagine, it doesn’t go well, because Eleanor is a pretty garbage person.

The latest season of The Good Place is currently airing on NBC, so once you finish all the episodes on Netflix, you have two options: wallow in the sad reality that you have to wait forever for the new episodes to be added to Netflix, or track down the latest ones and start watching even more!