Dante's Inferno and The Good Place

The tv show The Good Place can be connected in many ways to Dante’s Inferno. Just as the circles of hell are categorized and personalized in Dante, the neighborhoods in the good place are made to target specific people. Also, just as Elenor is given a second shot at living her life in a good way, Dante is being warned to not fall into any the categories of the circles of hell. Just as Beatrice is a loving guide for Dante, Chidi is a guide for Elenor, and he helps her improve her behavior. At one point, Chidi asks about where some of the philosophers he looks up to have ended up; it is revealed they all went to the “bad place”. I thought this was interesting because. Virgil was in Dante’s hell. Lastly, just as there is purgatory, a sort of in-between, in Dante, there is a “middle place” in the tv show.