The first several episodes of the series, which was created by Simon Rich of Man Seeking Woman fame and debuts Tuesday, drop the audience into its version of heaven without providing much of a foundation to cushion the landing. That problem is a lack of thorough world-building. Both are comedies that, by virtue of their settings, touch on philosophical and spiritual questions about the meaning of life and the degree to which free will or destiny controls human existence.īut Miracle Workers has a problem that’s all the more glaring when considered in the context of The Good Place.
Both reveal that the leaders “in charge” of the great beyond have no real idea what they’re doing. But it is inevitable.īoth shows imagine a version of heaven that is dysfunctional. It’s probably not fair to compare Miracle Workers, a new TBS limited series starring Steve Buscemi as an unmotivated God, to NBC’s The Good Place. What if God was one of us, and by one of us, I mean Steve Buscemi?
