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Michael, The Good Place

Photo: Colleen Hayes/NBC
Photo: Colleen Hayes/NBC

At the end of The Good Place’s first season, we learned that that Michael (Ted Danson) was secretly torturing the sitcom’s other characters by manipulating their afterlives in a subversive version of the Bad Place he personally designed. But as the show progressed, Michael evolved into one of the good guys, revealing layers of vulnerability, hilarity, and probably more poignant curiosity about humanity than any ostensibly evil creature ever has before.