Warning: Major spoilers for “The Good Place.”

I know everyone’s been too busy worrying about the end of America and the subsequent nuclear holocaust that will follow, but in between all that worrying you should really be catching up on TV. Lucky for you there’s been some great TV this year.

The best show you probably didn’t watch this season has been NBC’s “The Good Place.” Starring Kristen Bell and Ted Danson, with William Jackson Harper, Jameela Jamil, D’Arcy Carden, and Manny Jacinto all in supporting roles. The cast is half people of color, half women, and sneakily became one of the smartest sitcoms on air.

“The Good Place” follows Eleanor Shellstrop (Bell), who is recently dead and has just reached The Good Place. She is assigned a soulmate, Chidi (Harper), and makes frenemies with her neighbors Tahani (Jamil) and Jianyu (Jacinto) while sweet godly figure/middle manager Michael (Danson) and his human-Siri assistant Janet (Carden) help ease her into the transition of things. But it turns out The Big Guy made some kind of mistake and Eleanor doesn’t belong in The Good Place at all. With help from Chidi, Eleanor tries to hide her secret and learn how to become a better person, but things spiral out of control as Jianyu turns out to be Jason, a failed DJ who also doesn’t belong; Tahini falls in love with Chidi; Jason falls in love with and marries Janet; and Eleanor goes on to reveal herself, prompting Michael to fight with The Bad Place to keep her.

Series creator Michael Schur (“Parks and Recreation,” “Brooklyn Nine Nine”) designed the show to be a comedic “Lost,” asking for tips from creator Damon Lindelof. The show revolves around humans in a supernatural setting with plenty of world-building, each episode contains flashbacks to one of the human four (Eleanor, Chidi, Tahini, and Jason) when they were alive, and every episode ends with a cliffhanger. But the most “Lost”-ian thing about the show ended up being it’s season finale twist.

In the season finale, it’s stated that two of the four will have to go to The Bad Place (Eleanor and Jason for not belonging, Chidi and Tahani for helping them and hiding their secrets). As they argue over who should have to go, Eleanor thinks to herself how this is torture. And that’s when it hits her: it is torture. The Good Place was really The Bad Place the whole time; Michael was not a sweet angel but really a demonic mastermind who designed the whole place as a way for the four to psychologically torture one another for a thousand years. (Seriously, watch this show just to see Danson’s heel turn into an evil laugh. Brilliant). Every other resident was a demon pretending to be a good person, except for Janet who really is a Good Place Siri.

The show’s big reveal is especially pertinent today. Prior to the election, America was a lot like The Good Place for white people. Most of us thought it was utopia, a paradise, the “greatest country in the world.” Like the human four, white people were blind to any flaws and clues that signaled that America wasn’t a paradise, but instead a country that is still incredibly racist, bigoted, homophobic, xenophobic, and that has a large education gap and a struggling health care system. But instead of having a sudden realization like Eleanor, white people finally realized that they were in “The Bad Place” in a much harsher way: Donald Trump was elected president (even without the popular vote).

At the end of the finale Michael wipes their memories and restarts her experience from scratch, planning to split the four up this time to prevent them from helping each other out again. Eleanor writes herself a note to find Chidi, but memory-wiped Eleanor can’t figure out “what a Chidi is”. The human four are doomed to another season of being blind to where they really are and this time they won’t even have each other for support.

America can learn a lesson from “The Good Place.” Now that white people have finally realized we’re in The Bad Place we need to be careful. We can not let our memories get wiped or we’ll doom ourselves to more President Trumps in the future. We need to lean on each for support, work together, and remind ourselves that this is really The Bad Place; at least until we finally make America The Good Place (not again, but for the first time).

Image credit: NBC.