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Viewers have branded the Kristen Bell series a “masterpiece”.

Netflix viewers have just a few days to binge a “masterpiece” TV series.

Starring Kristen Bell, William Jackson Harper, Jameela Jamil, D’Arcy Carden, Manny Jacinto and Ted Danson, The Good Place first premiered in 2016 and quickly became a huge hit.

It followed a woman named Eleanor Shellstrop (Kristen) finding herself in “The Good Place” after dying, though she’s not certain she belongs there.

After questionable behaviour in her life, she fears being found out and being sent to “The Bad Place” instead, and so attempts to make herself a more ethical person and deserve her spot in the Heaven-like utopia.

While in The Good Place, Eleanor meets her soulmate Chidi (William) who teaches her ethics and helps her become more moral.

However, in a shock twist season one ending, Eleanor discovers that she’s actually been in The Bad Place all along, doomed to emotional and psychological torture forever as she continues to fail at becoming a better person.

The Good Place scored rave reviews from fans, with seasons two and four gaining a perfect 100% Rotten Tomatoes score while the first and third earned 92% and 98% respectively, as well as numerous awards and nominations.

One fan praised: “This is the best thing Netflix have made, IMHO. The Good Place is clever, witty, sometimes wickedly so, irreverently thoughtful, and beautifully written, and it does that thing that only really well conceived shows can do — it gets great performances from the entire cast. And it’s very, very funny.”

Another said: “The Good Place earns a glowing 5 out of 5 for its brilliant fusion of heartfelt humor, philosophy, and imaginative storytelling. From likable misfits in a heavenly bureaucracy to jaw-dropping moral twists (hello, definitely not the Good Place surprise) and a deeply satisfying finale, the series constantly evolves to keep you laughing and thinking.”

“I just finished watching The Good Place and honestly, I don’t even know what to feel right now. It’s one of those rare shows that makes you laugh out loud while also making you stop and think about life, morality, and what it means to be a good person. Every character was written so beautifully—from their flaws to their growth—and the twists kept me hooked from start to finish,” someone else wrote.

Others called it “the best sitcom [they’d] ever watched”, and another said: “This is without a doubt an outstanding show!”

“From my perspective, The Good Place is a masterpiece of modern television. It’s awesome, thought-provoking, and engaging from start to finish. The show manages to tackle profound philosophical and ethical questions while remaining hilariously entertaining. The mind-bending twists and turns kept me on the edge of my seat, making it impossible not to binge-watch,” one fan wrote.

Despite fans begging for a fifth season of the show, creator Mike Schur previously explained why the fourth was its final.

He told Newsweek in October 2019 that it was always the plan for the show to come to an end after a few seasons, explaining: “That’s why we named the episodes chapters instead of episodes or whatever, because it feels like a novel that is being carefully sort of laid out chapter by chapter.

“We wanted the end game, in particular, to pay homage to that and to make it feel like everything that came before matters and it’s all part of one big long story.”

The Good Place is available to watch on Netflix

An Amazon Prime remake of the classic sci-fi War of the Worlds has managed to get the lowest-possible score on Rotten Tomatoes, meaning it has been universally panned

An Amazon Prime remake of a classic sci-fi film has earned the lowest-possible score on Rotten Tomatoes. The streaming platform’s new version of War of the World stars Ice Cube and Eva Longoria, but even having two massive names attached to it did not help things when it came to impressing fans of the original.

On the review-aggregation website, which attracts nearly 80 million film and TV fans on a monthly basis, not one of the 13 reviews is positive and it has therefore been left with a rating of 0%. User ExxtraZY wrote: “I am traumatised. Not because of how graphic it is, but how awful it is. It feels like a 10 year old had a fever dream and decided to write the story at the top of their head.”

Another reviewer said: “The butchered one of the greatest sci-fi stories mankind has ever told. Just horrible. Bad writing,” and another fumed: “This movie could either be considered a glorified Amazon Ad or a really, really, really bad movie.” It comes after one Mirror writer claimed ‘the new Bonnie Blue documentary may be the worst thing I’ve ever seen on Channel 4’.

A fourth reviewer said: “Stayed 20 minutes longer than I should have because of Ice Cube. But even he couldn’t save this disaster of an adaptation,” whilst one social media user took to X to write: “This new War of the Worlds movie might be the worst movie I have seen in years.” Despite this, some fans who had watched the movie felt that they could defend it.

One wrote: “I felt the story was strong enough to suspend belief. I didn’t care too much about the special effects, I cared about are the kids going to be OK and how this story is different from the many other renditions I have seen,” and another said: “Ok so I am gonna buck the system here. I truly enjoyed WAR OF THE WORLDS. I thought Ice Cube was great – loved the entire cast. Eva Longoria – great. Loved the kids. What is the problem here??”

One irate viewer took to X to vent: “War of the Worlds (2025) is the worst adaption of the source material to date. It had no ideas beyond the found footage approach, and even then the film is struggling to find ways to present coherent scenes.

“Ice Cube is so lost. Maybe one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen. Most of the film just doesn’t make sense because they’re trying to rush through a mountain of developments.

The latest version of War of the Worlds, which focuses on an attempted alien invasion, was released last week on the streaming service. But the original novel by HG Wells was published in 1898, and the story has been adapted for the screen multiple times.

After first being broadcast on the radio in the late 1930s, three film adaptations were releases from 1953 and 1981. In 2005, Tom Cruise starred alongside a young Dakota Fanning in a modern remake of the Victorian classic.

There is also Jeff Wayne’s musical adaptation, which has toured the country regularly for nearly two decades and has recently featured the likes of Jason Donovan, Steps star Claire Richards, former EastEnders actress Maisie Smith and The Wanted’s Max George stepping into its main roles over the years.

The synopsis for the latest incarnation of the story reads: “‘A gargantuan invasion is coming with this fresh take on the legendary novel of the same name. Renowned actress Eva Longoria is joined by iconic rapper and actor Ice Cube, along with Michael O’Neill and Iman Benson, for a thrilling out-of-this-world adventure that is filled with present-day themes of technology, surveillance, and privacy.”

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