San Diego Comic Con is about a month away (as of the time of this writing) and I am getting all giddy about it. The reminiscing over conventions past put me in the mood to revisit a show I started watching to prepare for cast interviews and therefore fell in love with it: The Good Place.

The creator of that show, Michael Shur, published a book earlier this year (2022) that kinda ties into the show. If you aren’t familiar with The Good Place, it centers on a woman (played by Kristen Bell) who dies and realizes she’s in the good place by mistake and gets a moral philosophy professor to help her learn how to be a better person. It is wonderful and funny and you should definitely watch it if you haven’t.

Philosophy plays heavily into the show, so it’s only natural for the creator to put all he learned about it into book form for the rest of us. Thankfully, How To Be Perfect isn’t your average philosophy book. I listened to it as an audiobook because several members of the cast loaned their voices to it, so it made it even more fun to listen to. Schur wrote it in a hilarious way which often had me smiling as I drove. I was thoroughly entertained.

However, just like my college moral philosophy class, I don’t think I really retained anything. Schur used modern examples which made sense in the moment, but I couldn’t really tell you what any of the terms were. I guess philosophy just isn’t something my brain wants to absorb. YOLO.

Anyways, I recommend the audiobook of How To Be Perfect for an educational good time, and hope you retain more than I did.

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