The Good Place season 4 will give fans “the ending this story needs”

The Good Place is ending, and my heart is broken. Between 2019 and 2020, we are losing so many special shows, but this one tops the charts for me.

Starring Kristen Bell and Ted Danson, this quirky NBC series follows a group of individuals in the afterlife. Without getting too much into it, let’s just say that’s they don’t end up where they thought they would. The show uses its wacky premise to explore all sorts of questions about mortality and ethics, all while developing a cast of character we love. It’s going to be extremely hard to say goodbye to The Good Place, but according to the show’s creator, Mike Schur, he gave the series “an ending this story needs”.

Schur and the cast gathered on the Television Critics Association summer press tour to discuss the final season, and it sounds like emotions were running high. Tears were involved. The realization that the show was ending hit the cast members hard, particularly Ted Danson. “Usually, you’re informed by the network that the show is over or there’s some turmoil that it’s been taken away from you,” he said. “But here’s the gift of this show, and we were all part of it, this was us, and it was ours and please enjoy.”

Enjoy it we shall! “We have told this story the way Mike wanted to, and to pad out a story with such a specific message and morality tale would have been weird,” Danson continued.

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The beauty of The Good Place is that it sheds light on important questions in funny, approachable ways. Being a good person is easier said than understood, let alone done. Sure, the show is funny, but it’s also education, with episodes like lesson plans on how to lead a good life. “[W]e found as we wrote and executed it, smart people had very different opinions about that question,” said Schur. “The mission was then less about offering a bunch of options of how to be a good person this way, or this way, or this way, but that what’s important is you try one of them. A huge part of the problem is that not enough people are trying. And trying is failing a lot; we fail all the time at this. But we all should try harder than we are, and as long as you are trying you are on the right path.”

Needless to say, I’m super excited to see what the show will say in the final season, and what will happen to the characters, and how the story will end.

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