Anagnorisis and The Good Place

While trying to sound out the word “anagnorisis” in my head, I was reminded of the name of a character from the TV show called The Good Place. This character, Chidi Anagonye, is a very intelligent moral philosophy professor who is horribly indecisive. I thought it was interesting that his name sounds like the Greek word for a change into knowledge or realization when that’s that he spent his whole life studying and trying to achieve. SPOILER (for the TV show): Also, this show is about a group of people who think they have gotten into heaven but, as we find out, are not exactly in the situation they thought they were in. This is where the Greek word would really apply; they come to realizations about their actual situation and about parts of their actions and selves as humans.