Since the emergence of streamers like Netflix, Hulu and Amazon in recent years, their massive budgets, unrestricted episode run times and shorter season orders have made them go-to destinations for Hollywood creative hoping to launch the next must-watch series. Which is what makes it even more surprising when one of the Big 4 launches a series like The Good Place , an ambitious, heavily serialized comedy about the afterlife that would seem to fit perfectly into Netflix’s binge-watch model of releasing all episodes at once.