the idea is that the spirits of people who died not at peace get stuck in the world / in their suffering, and Reapers can send them on to the Good Place in exchange for a little bit of service before they go. okay, pretty fluffy, prosocial necromancers as these things go
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except that after a few establishing shots of Reaper powers operating in contexts where a lot of death had happened, they're then shown being used entirely at will. just calling up animations (dead people moving around some inanimate matter briefly) whenever and wherever
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which, uh, means Reapers are constantly surrounded by souls in torment — who they're letting stew in their juices because the Reapers don't need anything from them right now. Reapers are basically The Ones Who Purchase Kilowattage From Omelas. not so fluffy now
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