Michael Schur pulled off a near-impossible trick: creating a serialized broadcast network comedy about academic moral philosophy that stays genuinely funny across four seasons. Kristen Bell's Eleanor Shellstrop lands in a candy-colored paradise she knows she didn't earn, forcing her to recruit an anxious ethics professor to teach her goodness from scratch.

Because it originally aired on network TV, the edge is neatly managed. Profanity is filtered by the neighborhood's whimsical translation mechanics ("holy motherforking shirtballs"), and violence is mostly cartoonish demon slapstick. The mature content lives entirely in dialogue: plenty of sex references, hangovers, and jokes about Florida trashiness.

If you have a kid on the edge of twelve or thirteen starting to chew on bigger moral questions, this is top-tier family co-watching. It treats heavy ideas with buoyant intelligence, giving families common vocabulary to talk about why being decent to each other actually matters.