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Does the name Doug Forcett ring a bell?

I’m not suggesting it should. I had to look it up, and I’m writing this thing.

Doug Forcett is a minor character on the NBC sitcom “The Good Place,” which is now in its fourth and final season. I kept hearing about the show, and eventually I became a fan.

“The Good Place” is an idea about ideas, with laughs. It takes place almost entirely in the afterlife, a corner of which is apparently being supervised by Ted Danson. That alone would get my attention.

Danson plays a sort of one-man homeowners’ association in the hereafter, or maybe a s...