TV is filled with intricately plotted dramas. Many of them create an elaborate, mysterious storyline, but a big chunk of them wind up collapsing under the weight of their ambitions and a failure to follow the logic of their own premise (think The OA, Lost, or Persons Unknown).
The Good Place, a silly, wacky sitcom centered on an awful person who somehow winds up in heaven, shows every pretentious dramatic series how it should be done. The first season was endlessly inventive but never showy. Everything that happened came out of the logic of the situation in such a way that you never thought about how clever the writers were being. It just all made sense.
The epitome of this series' approach to plotting can be seen in the finale, which offers a big twist that, once it is given, is so obvious that you can't believe you didn't think of it (although I'm sure some people *did* think of it in the way some people - not me - guessed the twist in West World).
The episode was great, typically funny and engaging. The twist was brilliant, funny, and logical. And it beautifully sets the stage for an ingenious and fresh season 2. Of the new series of the last year, only the aforementioned West World compares in the brilliance of its season ender.
I checked wikipedia and the ratings have dropped throughout the season, so I'm just keeping my fingers crossed that this show is renewed. It would be a crime if this was it.