Anyone else see Janet in that dress??
pics to come later when the ep is posted someplace
pics to come later when the ep is posted someplace
Yo anyone watching The Good Place tonight??
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Peace,
Bumping this thread because this is actually a very good show.
And yes, the funny looking chick who plays Janet does have a decent body.
Bumping this thread because this is actually a very good show.
And yes, the funny looking chick who plays Janet does have a decent body.
Yo...
I do not know how i missed it
This show is damn damn good.
Peace,
Fam, it’s a show that continually explores philosophy and the human condition and features a black man as the moral and intellectual centerpiece. How often have we seen something like that?
Fam, it’s a show that continually explores philosophy and the human condition and features a black man as the moral and intellectual centerpiece. How often have we seen something like that?
NEVER.
i had a few people recommend it saying i would love it, especially the brother.
They were right.
Only 4 episodes in so far
Never thought i would see this on network tv.
We've actually been watching it as family, a little nervous about some of the sex jokes but the kids are really focused on right v wrong, religion, and if the good place is really a good place
Next series...
This Is Us - it BETTER live up to the hype.
Sidebar...
Been a fan of k. Bell since veronica mars.
Peace,
Man the show only gets better. We watch it as a family as well (my son is 15). It’s amazing to see a brother so solidly cast as the moral compass of a network television program.
As for This Is Us: you’ll love the black family and the dad and find everyone else fairly repugnant. It’s also one of the corniest shows ever made.
Man the show only gets better. We watch it as a family as well (my son is 15). It’s amazing to see a brother so solidly cast as the moral compass of a network television program.
As for This Is Us: you’ll love the black family and the dad and find everyone else fairly repugnant. It’s also one of the corniest shows ever made.
Damn...
I got people telling me they got tears watching that show...
I can't take corny really anymore outside a show from the 70/80s
I'll let you know how it goes
Does the show get more "adult"? Cause the 10 year old loves it so far.
Peace,
Full disclosure: I’m a bit of a cynic. I find This Is Us to be too intentionally emotionally manipulative but that might be because I’m me. I’d love to get your thoughts after you see it.
Full disclosure: I’m a bit of a cynic. I find This Is Us to be too intentionally emotionally manipulative but that might be because I’m me. I’d love to get your thoughts after you see it.
Peace,
Well they make it clear that Eleanor is a ho and there are recurring references to recreational drug use and fucking but a lot of that will probably go over a ten year old’s head if he/she hasn’t already been introduced to it. Still, I think the good FAR outweighs the bad for a kid.
Well they make it clear that Eleanor is a ho and there are recurring references to recreational drug use and fucking but a lot of that will probably go over a ten year old’s head if he/she hasn’t already been introduced to it. Still, I think the good FAR outweighs the bad for a kid.
I'm hoping so cause to hear her have questions about morals?
She got real deep about helping bad people be good...
What if some people are just bad really bad, And if HELPING them hurts others?
My wife and i were a little speechless
And my kid doesn't trust ted danson. Nope not at all. I think it was kicking the dog into the sun?
Her theory
Its not heaven.
Cause no one including ted danson is really happy.
That ted may unknowingly be "the devil".
That is why God finally gave him work after 200 years. God knew it would be bad. Maybe even punishing Danson.
Peace,
Fam, right now, before you reply to this message, thank the Source/God/the Universe/Energy/Light/Jehovah/Whomever for the brilliant child that you and your wife shepherded into the world.
Fam, right now, before you reply to this message, thank the Source/God/the Universe/Energy/Light/Jehovah/Whomever for the brilliant child that you and your wife shepherded into the world.
Damn i havent watched it in a minute...wife and i watched the first 2 seasons but havent had a chance to see the 3rd season yet..
Been catching up on "the good fight" which is another dope network tv show
Been catching up on "the good fight" which is another dope network tv show
Family thank you for that
and I did and prayed that your family continues to blessed with a great father!
shes been making rounds...I noticed that she was a guest on "the School of greatness" podcast earlier this week or last week. Haven't listened yet
NBC’s The Good Place to Come to an End After Upcoming Fourth Season
By Halle Kiefer@hallekiefer
Photo: Colleen Hayes/NBC
While Eleanor, Chidi, and the gang’s time in The Good Place could go on forever (or, you know, they might spend eternity in that other, significantly less good location), your time there will be up at the end of season four. The announcement came Friday that the NBC series will conclude after its fourth season, which is currently set to premiere sometime this fall. Before you climb all the way up to Heaven and kick God’s ass for canceling your favorite comedy, however, please know The Good Place’s conclusion was preplanned. According to creator Mike Schur, who announced the show’s ending at an Emmys “For Your Consideration” panel on Friday, while the temptation to keep the Trans Eternal Railway chugging along in perpetuity was strong, the series engine was ultimately built to last approximately 50 episodes.
“After The Good Place was picked up for season two, the writing staff and I began to map out, as best we could, the trajectory of the show. Given the ideas we wanted to explore, and the pace at which we wanted to present those ideas, I began to feel like four seasons — just over 50 episodes — was the right lifespan,” Schur said, per a release from NBC. “At times over the past few years we’ve been tempted to go beyond four seasons, but mostly because making this show is a rare, creatively fulfilling joy, and at the end of the day, we don’t want to tread water just because the water is so warm and pleasant. As such, the upcoming fourth season will be our last.”
By Halle Kiefer@hallekiefer
Photo: Colleen Hayes/NBC
While Eleanor, Chidi, and the gang’s time in The Good Place could go on forever (or, you know, they might spend eternity in that other, significantly less good location), your time there will be up at the end of season four. The announcement came Friday that the NBC series will conclude after its fourth season, which is currently set to premiere sometime this fall. Before you climb all the way up to Heaven and kick God’s ass for canceling your favorite comedy, however, please know The Good Place’s conclusion was preplanned. According to creator Mike Schur, who announced the show’s ending at an Emmys “For Your Consideration” panel on Friday, while the temptation to keep the Trans Eternal Railway chugging along in perpetuity was strong, the series engine was ultimately built to last approximately 50 episodes.
“After The Good Place was picked up for season two, the writing staff and I began to map out, as best we could, the trajectory of the show. Given the ideas we wanted to explore, and the pace at which we wanted to present those ideas, I began to feel like four seasons — just over 50 episodes — was the right lifespan,” Schur said, per a release from NBC. “At times over the past few years we’ve been tempted to go beyond four seasons, but mostly because making this show is a rare, creatively fulfilling joy, and at the end of the day, we don’t want to tread water just because the water is so warm and pleasant. As such, the upcoming fourth season will be our last.”
Good lawd...
She is now taking NUMEROUS victory laps for figuring out the twist EXACTLY!
That nose though..
Lol. I forgot about this. Yeah man she’s brilliant.
The Good Place creator teases new characters in final season
By Dan Snierson
June 11, 2019 at 01:24 PM EDT
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If the season 1 finale of The Good Place was an act of subversion (this place isn’t heaven-sent!) — and if season 2’s capper offered up reversion (let’s return to Earth for a do-over!) — then season 3’s grand finale was pure eversion, the heart and soul (squad) of the show turned outward for all to see.
In the cunning afterlife comedy’s most emotional episode to date, Judge Jen (Maya Rudolph) had granted reforming Bad Place architect Michael (Ted Danson) one last chance to prove his theory that human beings can indeed evolve. The stakes were once again harrowingly high for all of Team Cockroach, as failure would result in eternal damnation (and “retirement” for Michael). And scarier yet, Judge Jen let the wickedly scheming Bad Place choose the four new test-humans (and wrenches) in this experiment, two of which were immediately revealed: Gossip Toilet guru/Tahani nemesis John (Brandon Scott Jones) and neuroscientist/Chidi ex, Simone (Kirby Howell-Baptiste). The Simone curveball led Eleanor (Kristen Bell) and Chidi (William Jackson Harper) to reluctantly renounce their shot at eternal love, at least for now: he volunteered to have his mind erased so his neurotic instincts in regards to Simone wouldn’t befoul this grand experiment. “We found each other before hundreds of times,” Eleanor assured Chidi with melancholic hope before the big wipe took effect. “We can do it again.”
Season 4, which was just announced as the final season, will deliver on the promise of pumping new blood into the neighborhood, though it will flow a little differently than you’re used to. “We’ve had a lot of wonderful guest stars, like Jason Manztoukas playing Derek or Maribeth Monroe playing Mindy St. Clair,” creator Mike Schur tells EW. “There are people in the world who pop up and then they come back and they come back. But this year, there are new additions to the world who are fairly permanent — at least for the initial status quo. That was a new thing for us. We’d never really had characters besides the main six who we were juggling week to week, and now we have a bunch of new ones. So that’s the biggest change about this season.”
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The Soul Squad will spend the early part of the season trying to help the subjects evolve into better humans. “They all have very specific jobs to play,” says Schur (who spoke to EW before the final-season announcement). “We thought of them almost as morality caseworkers, where John is Tahani’s [Jameela Jamil] project. And there are other projects for other people. Not the only thing Tahani does is deal with John. They’re also functioning as a team and they have big, large scale projects and big ideas for how to get all four of them to bond and change and grow. They’re there to help out and almost sheepdog style, herd them into better choices and better decisions.”
Viewers met 50 percent of the test subjects in the finale, and as Tahani pointed out, they were chosen not because they were the worst people in the world, but the worst people for each member of our quartet. So, what should viewers expect from the foils for Eleanor and Jason (Manny Jacinto)? “The two that you’ve seen are more individually specific to Tahani and to Chidi than the next two, for a simple reason,” explains Schur. “John was a gossip columnist who specifically wrote about Tahani and that’s not a thing that you could repeat with Jason or Eleanor. And then Simone happened to die on Earth, so they were like, ‘Ooh, this is perfect — an actual ex-girlfriend of one of the four people.’ The other two have specific relationships to Eleanor and to Jason, but not in the same, exact literal way that the first two did.”
Whomever Eleanor is paired with, she’ll be tested in other ways, as she spends time with Chidi, her not-appointed-but-selected soulmate who has no memory of their romantic history. “It’s not easy,” warns Schur. “One of the themes early on is the emotional toughness that she has to endure in order to just get through and get through the day and do her job while this thing is happening right in front of her. That’s a big thing in the first two or three episodes of the season.”
There may be another big problem looming on the horizon, a face both familiar and ferocious. Asked for a one-word hint about what’s to come in season 4, Schur pauses for a moment and then simply says: “Vicky.”
Season 4 will debut this fall on NBC.
By Dan Snierson
June 11, 2019 at 01:24 PM EDT
FBTwitter
COLLEEN HAYES/NBC
The Good Place
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- TV Show
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If the season 1 finale of The Good Place was an act of subversion (this place isn’t heaven-sent!) — and if season 2’s capper offered up reversion (let’s return to Earth for a do-over!) — then season 3’s grand finale was pure eversion, the heart and soul (squad) of the show turned outward for all to see.
In the cunning afterlife comedy’s most emotional episode to date, Judge Jen (Maya Rudolph) had granted reforming Bad Place architect Michael (Ted Danson) one last chance to prove his theory that human beings can indeed evolve. The stakes were once again harrowingly high for all of Team Cockroach, as failure would result in eternal damnation (and “retirement” for Michael). And scarier yet, Judge Jen let the wickedly scheming Bad Place choose the four new test-humans (and wrenches) in this experiment, two of which were immediately revealed: Gossip Toilet guru/Tahani nemesis John (Brandon Scott Jones) and neuroscientist/Chidi ex, Simone (Kirby Howell-Baptiste). The Simone curveball led Eleanor (Kristen Bell) and Chidi (William Jackson Harper) to reluctantly renounce their shot at eternal love, at least for now: he volunteered to have his mind erased so his neurotic instincts in regards to Simone wouldn’t befoul this grand experiment. “We found each other before hundreds of times,” Eleanor assured Chidi with melancholic hope before the big wipe took effect. “We can do it again.”
Season 4, which was just announced as the final season, will deliver on the promise of pumping new blood into the neighborhood, though it will flow a little differently than you’re used to. “We’ve had a lot of wonderful guest stars, like Jason Manztoukas playing Derek or Maribeth Monroe playing Mindy St. Clair,” creator Mike Schur tells EW. “There are people in the world who pop up and then they come back and they come back. But this year, there are new additions to the world who are fairly permanent — at least for the initial status quo. That was a new thing for us. We’d never really had characters besides the main six who we were juggling week to week, and now we have a bunch of new ones. So that’s the biggest change about this season.”
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The Soul Squad will spend the early part of the season trying to help the subjects evolve into better humans. “They all have very specific jobs to play,” says Schur (who spoke to EW before the final-season announcement). “We thought of them almost as morality caseworkers, where John is Tahani’s [Jameela Jamil] project. And there are other projects for other people. Not the only thing Tahani does is deal with John. They’re also functioning as a team and they have big, large scale projects and big ideas for how to get all four of them to bond and change and grow. They’re there to help out and almost sheepdog style, herd them into better choices and better decisions.”
Viewers met 50 percent of the test subjects in the finale, and as Tahani pointed out, they were chosen not because they were the worst people in the world, but the worst people for each member of our quartet. So, what should viewers expect from the foils for Eleanor and Jason (Manny Jacinto)? “The two that you’ve seen are more individually specific to Tahani and to Chidi than the next two, for a simple reason,” explains Schur. “John was a gossip columnist who specifically wrote about Tahani and that’s not a thing that you could repeat with Jason or Eleanor. And then Simone happened to die on Earth, so they were like, ‘Ooh, this is perfect — an actual ex-girlfriend of one of the four people.’ The other two have specific relationships to Eleanor and to Jason, but not in the same, exact literal way that the first two did.”
Whomever Eleanor is paired with, she’ll be tested in other ways, as she spends time with Chidi, her not-appointed-but-selected soulmate who has no memory of their romantic history. “It’s not easy,” warns Schur. “One of the themes early on is the emotional toughness that she has to endure in order to just get through and get through the day and do her job while this thing is happening right in front of her. That’s a big thing in the first two or three episodes of the season.”
There may be another big problem looming on the horizon, a face both familiar and ferocious. Asked for a one-word hint about what’s to come in season 4, Schur pauses for a moment and then simply says: “Vicky.”
Season 4 will debut this fall on NBC.
Midsommar star says his Good Place character would have 'gotten the f— out of there'
By Clark Collis
July 03, 2019 at 03:45 PM EDT
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In the new horror film Midsommar, William Jackson Harper plays an anthropology student named Josh, one of several Americans who visit a remote — and increasingly ominous — commune in Sweden. Harper is, of course, best known for playing the super-intelligent ethics professor Chidi on NBC’s The Good Place. So, how does he think his sitcom character would deal with the terrifying world of writer-director Ari Aster’s Midsommar?
“Honestly, I think Chidi would have done okay,” Harper tells EW. “Because I think Chidi would have gotten the f— out of there. Right off the bat, he would have been like, ‘Nah, that’s cool, I’m good, you guys have a good time.’ There’s a couple of things in the movie that are very specific sort of red flags, and so I think Chidi’s little computer brain would have been like, ‘I can’t compute that,’ and taken off.”
Midsommar is in theaters now, and also stars Florence Pugh, Jack Reynor, Will Poulter, and Vilhelm Blomgren.
By Clark Collis
July 03, 2019 at 03:45 PM EDT
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In the new horror film Midsommar, William Jackson Harper plays an anthropology student named Josh, one of several Americans who visit a remote — and increasingly ominous — commune in Sweden. Harper is, of course, best known for playing the super-intelligent ethics professor Chidi on NBC’s The Good Place. So, how does he think his sitcom character would deal with the terrifying world of writer-director Ari Aster’s Midsommar?
“Honestly, I think Chidi would have done okay,” Harper tells EW. “Because I think Chidi would have gotten the f— out of there. Right off the bat, he would have been like, ‘Nah, that’s cool, I’m good, you guys have a good time.’ There’s a couple of things in the movie that are very specific sort of red flags, and so I think Chidi’s little computer brain would have been like, ‘I can’t compute that,’ and taken off.”
Midsommar is in theaters now, and also stars Florence Pugh, Jack Reynor, Will Poulter, and Vilhelm Blomgren.
Midsommar cast sat in stunned silence after first viewing of horror film
By Clark Collis
June 28, 2019 at 08:52 PM EDT
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Midsommar
07/03/19
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Ari Aster’s follow-up to Hereditary, the phantasmagorical horror movie Midsommar, is likely to leave a lot of people speechless. Certainly it had that effect on the cast when they first saw the film earlier this month — and they, of course, knew what was coming.
“Tough! F—in’ tough!” actor Jack Reynor says when EW asks about his experience of seeing the movie. “We watched it as a cast together in New York. We all laughed through the first two-thirds of the film, at all that gallows humor, and then for the final third of the film, all of us were silent. When the credits rolled, there was no ‘High-five! You did an amazing job! Oh my God, you’re so good in the film!’ It was just silence. All of us sat there with our heads in our hands. It was a good 10 minutes of not talking.”
He adds, “It’s a hard one to digest, and there’s a lot unpack in it. But that’s the kind of sh— that it’s worth doing. Last time I got that feeling watching a film was when I watched In the Realm of the Senses, the Nagisa Oshima [film]. That f—ed me up too. So it was the same kind of feeling — just heaviness. But you’re watching something that has been meticulously designed to create that feeling in you.”
Midsommar stars Reynor and Florence Pugh as an American couple, Christian and Dani, who embark on a trip to Scandinavia with friends Mark (Will Poulter), Josh (William Jackson Harper), and Pelle (Vilhelm Blomgren), the latter of whom has invited them to visit his remote village in Sweden. “They’re a really weird, culty kind of commune,” Reynor told EW earlier this year. “Everybody’s all dressed in white, they have strange kinds of social cliques.”
Midsommar opens July 3.
By Clark Collis
June 28, 2019 at 08:52 PM EDT
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Midsommar
07/03/19
TYPE
- Movie
Ari Aster’s follow-up to Hereditary, the phantasmagorical horror movie Midsommar, is likely to leave a lot of people speechless. Certainly it had that effect on the cast when they first saw the film earlier this month — and they, of course, knew what was coming.
“Tough! F—in’ tough!” actor Jack Reynor says when EW asks about his experience of seeing the movie. “We watched it as a cast together in New York. We all laughed through the first two-thirds of the film, at all that gallows humor, and then for the final third of the film, all of us were silent. When the credits rolled, there was no ‘High-five! You did an amazing job! Oh my God, you’re so good in the film!’ It was just silence. All of us sat there with our heads in our hands. It was a good 10 minutes of not talking.”
He adds, “It’s a hard one to digest, and there’s a lot unpack in it. But that’s the kind of sh— that it’s worth doing. Last time I got that feeling watching a film was when I watched In the Realm of the Senses, the Nagisa Oshima [film]. That f—ed me up too. So it was the same kind of feeling — just heaviness. But you’re watching something that has been meticulously designed to create that feeling in you.”
Midsommar stars Reynor and Florence Pugh as an American couple, Christian and Dani, who embark on a trip to Scandinavia with friends Mark (Will Poulter), Josh (William Jackson Harper), and Pelle (Vilhelm Blomgren), the latter of whom has invited them to visit his remote village in Sweden. “They’re a really weird, culty kind of commune,” Reynor told EW earlier this year. “Everybody’s all dressed in white, they have strange kinds of social cliques.”
Midsommar opens July 3.
The Good Place final season: See exclusive first-look photos
By Dan Snierson
July 17, 2019 at 11:00 AM EDT
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COLLEEN HAYES/NBC)
The Good Place
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Even eternity can’t last forever.
As you may have heard (and then cried out in cosmic pain), The Good Place will ascend to the afterlife following the upcoming fourth season. Returning to NBC on Sept. 26, TV’s most ethical comedy is set to unveil a new version of the “can-humans-evolve?” experiment, which hellscape architect Michael (Ted Danson) arranged to keep Team Cockroach from being everlastingly damned. Aided by all-knowing database Janet (D’Arcy Carden), our core quartet of in-limbo souls — Eleanor (Kristen Bell), Chidi (William Jackson Harper), Tahani (Jameela Jamil), and Jason (Manny Jacinto) — will face plenty of challenges while trying to make four fresh test subjects into better people. “We thought of them almost as morality caseworkers,” says creator Michael Schur of the Soul Squad. “They have large-scale projects and big ideas for how to get all four of them to bond and change and grow. They’re there to help out and, almost sheepdog-style, herd them into better choices and better decisions.”
While you wait to see how all of this plays out — it’s probably wise to expect several paradigm twists — Schur is focused on adding a fitting final chapter to this thoughtful, mind-bending saga. “The thing that I like about the whole season is we’re following through on the idea of the show,” he says. “People who have liked the show will feel like we didn’t pull our punch.” In other words, prepare to be hit on an emotional level and a philosophical one.
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Previous seasons have showcased guest characters such as Derek (Jason Mantzoukas) and Mindy St. Clair (Maribeth Monroe), but season 4 will feature “new additions to the world who are fairly permanent — at least for the initial status quo,” Schur recently told EW. “That was a new thing for us. We’d never really had characters besides the main six who we were juggling week to week, and now we have a bunch of new ones.” (Two of them you already know a little — Gossip Toilet’s John (Brandon Scott Jones) — or very well: Chidi’s ex Simone (Kirby Howell-Baptiste.)
To grab a glimpse of the afterlife action to come, simply gaze at the top and bottom of the story and study these first-look images. In the top photo, Eleanor, Tahani and Jason clearly need to hug it out while Michael and Janet look on. Another shot features the gang at a formal function of sorts, while the final photo showcases a memory-wiped Chidi reuniting with Eleanor, a.k.a. the woman who he doesn’t remember that he loves. (Yet.)
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Ahead of the final season, the creator and stars of The Good Place — which was nominated for five Emmys on Tuesdays — will appear on a panel at San Diego Comic-Con on Saturday.
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By Dan Snierson
July 17, 2019 at 11:00 AM EDT
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The Good Place
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- TV Show
GENRE
Even eternity can’t last forever.
As you may have heard (and then cried out in cosmic pain), The Good Place will ascend to the afterlife following the upcoming fourth season. Returning to NBC on Sept. 26, TV’s most ethical comedy is set to unveil a new version of the “can-humans-evolve?” experiment, which hellscape architect Michael (Ted Danson) arranged to keep Team Cockroach from being everlastingly damned. Aided by all-knowing database Janet (D’Arcy Carden), our core quartet of in-limbo souls — Eleanor (Kristen Bell), Chidi (William Jackson Harper), Tahani (Jameela Jamil), and Jason (Manny Jacinto) — will face plenty of challenges while trying to make four fresh test subjects into better people. “We thought of them almost as morality caseworkers,” says creator Michael Schur of the Soul Squad. “They have large-scale projects and big ideas for how to get all four of them to bond and change and grow. They’re there to help out and, almost sheepdog-style, herd them into better choices and better decisions.”
While you wait to see how all of this plays out — it’s probably wise to expect several paradigm twists — Schur is focused on adding a fitting final chapter to this thoughtful, mind-bending saga. “The thing that I like about the whole season is we’re following through on the idea of the show,” he says. “People who have liked the show will feel like we didn’t pull our punch.” In other words, prepare to be hit on an emotional level and a philosophical one.
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Previous seasons have showcased guest characters such as Derek (Jason Mantzoukas) and Mindy St. Clair (Maribeth Monroe), but season 4 will feature “new additions to the world who are fairly permanent — at least for the initial status quo,” Schur recently told EW. “That was a new thing for us. We’d never really had characters besides the main six who we were juggling week to week, and now we have a bunch of new ones.” (Two of them you already know a little — Gossip Toilet’s John (Brandon Scott Jones) — or very well: Chidi’s ex Simone (Kirby Howell-Baptiste.)
To grab a glimpse of the afterlife action to come, simply gaze at the top and bottom of the story and study these first-look images. In the top photo, Eleanor, Tahani and Jason clearly need to hug it out while Michael and Janet look on. Another shot features the gang at a formal function of sorts, while the final photo showcases a memory-wiped Chidi reuniting with Eleanor, a.k.a. the woman who he doesn’t remember that he loves. (Yet.)
COLLEEN HAYES/NBC
COLLEEN HAYES/NBC)
Ahead of the final season, the creator and stars of The Good Place — which was nominated for five Emmys on Tuesdays — will appear on a panel at San Diego Comic-Con on Saturday.
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The Good Place is winding down shortly, but the laughs will live on forever. Including the ones that didn’t quite make the final cut. On Saturday, pegged to the stars’ and creator Mike Schur’s final appearance together at Comic-Con, NBC released a new, not-quite-nine-minute blooper reel featuring all sorts of takes from the actors of the beloved afterlife comedy that came up juuuuuust shy of heavenly.
Off-the-rails things that you will see include but are not limited to: Kristen Belllosing a battle with a shrimp, Ted Danson losing a book in the library in which he was pretending to work, William Jackson Harper interpreting Danson’s gesture to his nose as a sign for cocaine, Adam Scott unconvincingly sell a Jamaican accent, D’Arcy Carden having trouble with cute killer puppies, Manny Jacinto having too much fun with two trophies, Jameela Jamil apologizing to nearly every one in the room after uttering some words that wouldn’t fly in the Good Place, and Donkey Doug forgetting he was Donkey Doug.
Bell, Danson, Harper, Jamil, Carden, and Manny Jacinto, along with creator Mike Schur, took the stage in San Diego to reminisce and face the tearful realities of the impending final goodbye, as The Good Place is nearing the end of filming its fourth and final season. “It feels like a breakup when you are still in love with the person but you knew it wasn’t going to last,” Carden told the crowd. “It’s sad as hell. We can say it’s great but it sucks.”
Danson, meanwhile, has a fairly effective coping strategy — booking a new job. “Yes, that’s how I handle breakups,” he quipped. “You can’t divorce me I quit! I’m going to work with Tina Fey and Robert Carlock. I’m going to play the mayor of Los Angeles.” (Read about his just-announced NBC comedy here.)
Harper sang an original song about his pet dog Chico, the crowd gave the cast a massive standing ovation that even choked up Schur, and Bell weighed in on what would happen in two of her most indelible and forceful characters, Veronica Mars and Eleanor Shellstrop, ever met each other. “That’s kind of a no contest,” answered Bell. “Veronica would slay Eleanor so bad. She would eat her. After Veronica gave her what for, Eleanor would have mad respect for her and want to be part of her crew.”
The Good Place kicks off season 4 on Sept. 26.
Off-the-rails things that you will see include but are not limited to: Kristen Belllosing a battle with a shrimp, Ted Danson losing a book in the library in which he was pretending to work, William Jackson Harper interpreting Danson’s gesture to his nose as a sign for cocaine, Adam Scott unconvincingly sell a Jamaican accent, D’Arcy Carden having trouble with cute killer puppies, Manny Jacinto having too much fun with two trophies, Jameela Jamil apologizing to nearly every one in the room after uttering some words that wouldn’t fly in the Good Place, and Donkey Doug forgetting he was Donkey Doug.
Bell, Danson, Harper, Jamil, Carden, and Manny Jacinto, along with creator Mike Schur, took the stage in San Diego to reminisce and face the tearful realities of the impending final goodbye, as The Good Place is nearing the end of filming its fourth and final season. “It feels like a breakup when you are still in love with the person but you knew it wasn’t going to last,” Carden told the crowd. “It’s sad as hell. We can say it’s great but it sucks.”
Danson, meanwhile, has a fairly effective coping strategy — booking a new job. “Yes, that’s how I handle breakups,” he quipped. “You can’t divorce me I quit! I’m going to work with Tina Fey and Robert Carlock. I’m going to play the mayor of Los Angeles.” (Read about his just-announced NBC comedy here.)
Harper sang an original song about his pet dog Chico, the crowd gave the cast a massive standing ovation that even choked up Schur, and Bell weighed in on what would happen in two of her most indelible and forceful characters, Veronica Mars and Eleanor Shellstrop, ever met each other. “That’s kind of a no contest,” answered Bell. “Veronica would slay Eleanor so bad. She would eat her. After Veronica gave her what for, Eleanor would have mad respect for her and want to be part of her crew.”
The Good Place kicks off season 4 on Sept. 26.
The Good Place creator on how — and why — the show changed its ultimate message
By Dan Snierson
August 08, 2019 at 08:16 PM EDT
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NBC’s afterlife adventure The Good Place has become one of TV’s most challenging and delightful comedies, exploring questions of ethics, morality, and lower-circle-of-hell torture techniques over the last three seasons. But the expectation-subverting show that loves to shift paradigms has pivoted in another significant way. Speaking to reporters during The Good Place panel at the Television Critics Association’s summer press tour, creator Mike Schur explained how the intention of the series wound up evolving over time, and he seemingly hinted at a component of what will be the show’s ultimate message entering this fourth and final season.
The series began with ethics/moral philosophy professor Chidi (William Jackson Harper) attempting to teach Eleanor (Kristen Bell) what it means to be a good person. Later, the entire group (which also includes Jameela Jamil’s Tahani, Manny Jacinto’s Jason, and D’Arcy Carden’s Janet) sought to help demon architect Michael (Ted Danson) find his humanity. Most recently, the Soul Squad prepared to prove Michael’s humans-can-evolve theory with a fate-deciding experiment. And somewhere along the way, as the points system went to, well, hell, the show’s writers discovered a deeper truth than the one they initially thought they were seeking. And it involved a simple word: Try.
“I pitched the show as an investigation of what it meant to be a good person, and found over the course of working on it with the writers and the actors and the entire crew that that’s even a more complicated question than I think I thought it was,” Schur explained. “I thought at the beginning that the show could, if given the chance, describe what it meant to be a good person. That was my hope. And that didn’t mean ‘Do this and not that.’ It meant ‘Here’s what a good person looked like in the world. Here’s how a person can feel like he or she led a good life.’ At the end of the day, that objective kind of shifted a little bit. Because what we found as we discussed it and wrote it and executed it is that some very, very smart people over the last, say, 3,000 years have had a lot of very different opinions about that question.”
He continued, “So what the mission of the show then became was to say, ‘Okay, we’re going to give you a bunch of options. You can be a good person this way or you can try to be a good person this way.’ And what we ended up saying is ‘We’re going to present a bunch of options, and by the way, there are plenty more we didn’t describe, but what’s important is that you try one of them.’ That was my internal shift over the course of making the show: the newfound belief that the important thing wasn’t actually — and it’s counterintuitive to say this — being good. The important thing was that you’re trying.”
Schur indicated that said effort seemed to be in short supply among us in these complicated, fractured times. “It feels like a huge part of the problem, from my point of view, is that not enough people are just trying,” he said. “And trying means failing. Everybody fails all the time; even people with the best of intentions will fail. It doesn’t matter whether you follow this theory or that theory, or this belief or whatever. You’re going to fail a lot. We all fail all the time at this. So… at the beginning I pitched what it means to be a good person. And at the end I would describe this as a show that makes the argument that we all ought to try harder than we are. And as long as you’re trying, you’re on the right path.”
The path to the final episode of The Good Place begins Sept. 26, with the unveiling of the season 4 premiere. And Danson — who, like Bell, welled up with tears at the TCA panel — expressed his admiration for and satisfaction with the conclusion of this heady journey. “I’m grateful that it ended with as much integrity as it started with,” he summed up.
By Dan Snierson
August 08, 2019 at 08:16 PM EDT
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NBC’s afterlife adventure The Good Place has become one of TV’s most challenging and delightful comedies, exploring questions of ethics, morality, and lower-circle-of-hell torture techniques over the last three seasons. But the expectation-subverting show that loves to shift paradigms has pivoted in another significant way. Speaking to reporters during The Good Place panel at the Television Critics Association’s summer press tour, creator Mike Schur explained how the intention of the series wound up evolving over time, and he seemingly hinted at a component of what will be the show’s ultimate message entering this fourth and final season.
The series began with ethics/moral philosophy professor Chidi (William Jackson Harper) attempting to teach Eleanor (Kristen Bell) what it means to be a good person. Later, the entire group (which also includes Jameela Jamil’s Tahani, Manny Jacinto’s Jason, and D’Arcy Carden’s Janet) sought to help demon architect Michael (Ted Danson) find his humanity. Most recently, the Soul Squad prepared to prove Michael’s humans-can-evolve theory with a fate-deciding experiment. And somewhere along the way, as the points system went to, well, hell, the show’s writers discovered a deeper truth than the one they initially thought they were seeking. And it involved a simple word: Try.
“I pitched the show as an investigation of what it meant to be a good person, and found over the course of working on it with the writers and the actors and the entire crew that that’s even a more complicated question than I think I thought it was,” Schur explained. “I thought at the beginning that the show could, if given the chance, describe what it meant to be a good person. That was my hope. And that didn’t mean ‘Do this and not that.’ It meant ‘Here’s what a good person looked like in the world. Here’s how a person can feel like he or she led a good life.’ At the end of the day, that objective kind of shifted a little bit. Because what we found as we discussed it and wrote it and executed it is that some very, very smart people over the last, say, 3,000 years have had a lot of very different opinions about that question.”
He continued, “So what the mission of the show then became was to say, ‘Okay, we’re going to give you a bunch of options. You can be a good person this way or you can try to be a good person this way.’ And what we ended up saying is ‘We’re going to present a bunch of options, and by the way, there are plenty more we didn’t describe, but what’s important is that you try one of them.’ That was my internal shift over the course of making the show: the newfound belief that the important thing wasn’t actually — and it’s counterintuitive to say this — being good. The important thing was that you’re trying.”
Schur indicated that said effort seemed to be in short supply among us in these complicated, fractured times. “It feels like a huge part of the problem, from my point of view, is that not enough people are just trying,” he said. “And trying means failing. Everybody fails all the time; even people with the best of intentions will fail. It doesn’t matter whether you follow this theory or that theory, or this belief or whatever. You’re going to fail a lot. We all fail all the time at this. So… at the beginning I pitched what it means to be a good person. And at the end I would describe this as a show that makes the argument that we all ought to try harder than we are. And as long as you’re trying, you’re on the right path.”
The path to the final episode of The Good Place begins Sept. 26, with the unveiling of the season 4 premiere. And Danson — who, like Bell, welled up with tears at the TCA panel — expressed his admiration for and satisfaction with the conclusion of this heady journey. “I’m grateful that it ended with as much integrity as it started with,” he summed up.
The Good Place final season: See exclusive first-look photos
By Dan Snierson
July 17, 2019 at 11:00 AM EDT
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Even eternity can’t last forever.
As you may have heard (and then cried out in cosmic pain), The Good Place will ascend to the afterlife following the upcoming fourth season. Returning to NBC on Sept. 26, TV’s most ethical comedy is set to unveil a new version of the “can-humans-evolve?” experiment, which hellscape architect Michael (Ted Danson) arranged to keep Team Cockroach from being everlastingly damned. Aided by all-knowing database Janet (D’Arcy Carden), our core quartet of in-limbo souls — Eleanor (Kristen Bell), Chidi (William Jackson Harper), Tahani (Jameela Jamil), and Jason (Manny Jacinto) — will face plenty of challenges while trying to make four fresh test subjects into better people. “We thought of them almost as morality caseworkers,” says creator Michael Schur of the Soul Squad. “They have large-scale projects and big ideas for how to get all four of them to bond and change and grow. They’re there to help out and, almost sheepdog-style, herd them into better choices and better decisions.”
While you wait to see how all of this plays out — it’s probably wise to expect several paradigm twists — Schur is focused on adding a fitting final chapter to this thoughtful, mind-bending saga. “The thing that I like about the whole season is we’re following through on the idea of the show,” he says. “People who have liked the show will feel like we didn’t pull our punch.” In other words, prepare to be hit on an emotional level and a philosophical one.
Previous seasons have showcased guest characters such as Derek (Jason Mantzoukas) and Mindy St. Clair (Maribeth Monroe), but season 4 will feature “new additions to the world who are fairly permanent — at least for the initial status quo,” Schur recently told EW. “That was a new thing for us. We’d never really had characters besides the main six who we were juggling week to week, and now we have a bunch of new ones.” (Two of them you already know a little — Gossip Toilet’s John (Brandon Scott Jones) — or very well: Chidi’s ex Simone (Kirby Howell-Baptiste.)
To grab a glimpse of the afterlife action to come, simply gaze at the top and bottom of the story and study these first-look images. In the top photo, Eleanor, Tahani and Jason need to hug it out while Michael and Janet look on. Another shot features the gang at a formal function of sorts, while the final photo showcases a memory-wiped Chidi reuniting with Eleanor, a.k.a. the woman who he doesn’t remember that he loves. (Yet.)
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Ahead of the final season, the creator and stars of The Good Place — which was nominated for five Emmys on Tuesdays — will appear on a panel at San Diego Comic-Con on Saturday.
By Dan Snierson
July 17, 2019 at 11:00 AM EDT
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COLLEEN HAYES/NBC)
The Good Place
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Even eternity can’t last forever.
As you may have heard (and then cried out in cosmic pain), The Good Place will ascend to the afterlife following the upcoming fourth season. Returning to NBC on Sept. 26, TV’s most ethical comedy is set to unveil a new version of the “can-humans-evolve?” experiment, which hellscape architect Michael (Ted Danson) arranged to keep Team Cockroach from being everlastingly damned. Aided by all-knowing database Janet (D’Arcy Carden), our core quartet of in-limbo souls — Eleanor (Kristen Bell), Chidi (William Jackson Harper), Tahani (Jameela Jamil), and Jason (Manny Jacinto) — will face plenty of challenges while trying to make four fresh test subjects into better people. “We thought of them almost as morality caseworkers,” says creator Michael Schur of the Soul Squad. “They have large-scale projects and big ideas for how to get all four of them to bond and change and grow. They’re there to help out and, almost sheepdog-style, herd them into better choices and better decisions.”
While you wait to see how all of this plays out — it’s probably wise to expect several paradigm twists — Schur is focused on adding a fitting final chapter to this thoughtful, mind-bending saga. “The thing that I like about the whole season is we’re following through on the idea of the show,” he says. “People who have liked the show will feel like we didn’t pull our punch.” In other words, prepare to be hit on an emotional level and a philosophical one.
Previous seasons have showcased guest characters such as Derek (Jason Mantzoukas) and Mindy St. Clair (Maribeth Monroe), but season 4 will feature “new additions to the world who are fairly permanent — at least for the initial status quo,” Schur recently told EW. “That was a new thing for us. We’d never really had characters besides the main six who we were juggling week to week, and now we have a bunch of new ones.” (Two of them you already know a little — Gossip Toilet’s John (Brandon Scott Jones) — or very well: Chidi’s ex Simone (Kirby Howell-Baptiste.)
To grab a glimpse of the afterlife action to come, simply gaze at the top and bottom of the story and study these first-look images. In the top photo, Eleanor, Tahani and Jason need to hug it out while Michael and Janet look on. Another shot features the gang at a formal function of sorts, while the final photo showcases a memory-wiped Chidi reuniting with Eleanor, a.k.a. the woman who he doesn’t remember that he loves. (Yet.)
COLLEEN HAYES/NBC
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Ahead of the final season, the creator and stars of The Good Place — which was nominated for five Emmys on Tuesdays — will appear on a panel at San Diego Comic-Con on Saturday.
Once we get over the crippling sadness of The Good Place ending with its upcoming fourth season (a very Medium Place thing to experience in the era of Peak TV), please enjoy this first-look trailer at what we’re going to see when September 26 comes around. Eleanor (Kristen Bell), as teased last season, has joined Michael (Ted Danson, noted national treasure) as a new neighborhood architect to test the group’s grand experiment: if “bad” people can be reformed and turned “good” with the help of others. Jury’s still out on if our leading quartet of humans will fail and be tortured for eternity, but at least we get to witness Janet (D’Arcy Carden) conjure up a “baby elephant made of pure light that tells you true secrets of the universe” in the meantime. Who would’ve guessed that Shirley Temple murdered JFK?
The Good Place Cast Is As Sad As You Are About The Good Place Ending
By Jordan Crucchiola@jorcru
Soul Squad members Ted Danson, Manny Jacinto, Kristen Bell, D’Arcy Carden, William Jackson Harper, and Jameela Jamil pose with hell demon Marc Evan Jackson. Photo: Araya Diaz/Getty Images
The crowd in the Indigo Ballroom at San Diego Comic-Con was fired up to see their Good Placefaves at the show’s last-ever SDCC panel on Saturday. Creator Mike Schur was present with director Drew Goddard and the whole Soul Squad to give the Con faithful one last opportunity to chant Janet! Janet!, which they rightly did once all the attendees were settled on the stage.
Marc Evan Jackson was his characteristically wry self in the moderator role — basically putting on a version of his hell-demon character, Sean, from the show — but even he couldn’t avoid getting sentimental about just how sad it is to be saying goodbye to their hit series. By Kristen Bell’s account, she immediately went to the bargaining stage of grief when Schur called to give her the news that they’d be electively ending the story. “Every bone in my body immediately somehow knew that he was going to say we were either canceled or wrapping it up,” Bell told the audience, “And I said, ‘Before you finish! The only way I’m going to be able to hear you out is if you promise to write me something immediately after the show!’” (Schur has apparently just finished writing the finale episode, so Bell said she’s expecting a pilot for her next project … by the end of next week.)
Jameela Jamil, for her part, leaned into the sadness. “It’s a tragedy to walk away from these people and this show and all of our amazing fans, because it’s been the wildest experience of all of our lives. But also, it’s so cool to know we are completing the story as it was meant to be completed.” D’Arcy Carden framed letting go of The Good Place as a breakup where you still the love the person but you know you have to walk away from them anyway, and after saying a few magnanimous things finally just gave in and spoke to all our mourning hearts. “It’s sad as hell,” said Carden. “We can say it’s great, but it sucks.” Jamil immediately added, “We hate Mike.”
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For the rest of their hour at SDCC everyone on stage traded loving barbs, gave sincere testimonials about what an inspiring leader Schur is, whipped the crowd into a minor frenzy over the injustice of Carden’s Emmy snub — which included a brief monologue by the showrunner about how there absolutely were not five better supporting actresses on television this year — and the proceeds finally concluded with Jackson tabling all his sarcasm and earnestly thanking Schur for The Good Place. The cast then lead the room in a lengthy standing ovation for the show’s creator while he sat and tried not to cry. As you look at this photo of everyone holding each other over sad Mike, we invite you to cry it out, too.
By Jordan Crucchiola@jorcru
Soul Squad members Ted Danson, Manny Jacinto, Kristen Bell, D’Arcy Carden, William Jackson Harper, and Jameela Jamil pose with hell demon Marc Evan Jackson. Photo: Araya Diaz/Getty Images
The crowd in the Indigo Ballroom at San Diego Comic-Con was fired up to see their Good Placefaves at the show’s last-ever SDCC panel on Saturday. Creator Mike Schur was present with director Drew Goddard and the whole Soul Squad to give the Con faithful one last opportunity to chant Janet! Janet!, which they rightly did once all the attendees were settled on the stage.
Marc Evan Jackson was his characteristically wry self in the moderator role — basically putting on a version of his hell-demon character, Sean, from the show — but even he couldn’t avoid getting sentimental about just how sad it is to be saying goodbye to their hit series. By Kristen Bell’s account, she immediately went to the bargaining stage of grief when Schur called to give her the news that they’d be electively ending the story. “Every bone in my body immediately somehow knew that he was going to say we were either canceled or wrapping it up,” Bell told the audience, “And I said, ‘Before you finish! The only way I’m going to be able to hear you out is if you promise to write me something immediately after the show!’” (Schur has apparently just finished writing the finale episode, so Bell said she’s expecting a pilot for her next project … by the end of next week.)
Jameela Jamil, for her part, leaned into the sadness. “It’s a tragedy to walk away from these people and this show and all of our amazing fans, because it’s been the wildest experience of all of our lives. But also, it’s so cool to know we are completing the story as it was meant to be completed.” D’Arcy Carden framed letting go of The Good Place as a breakup where you still the love the person but you know you have to walk away from them anyway, and after saying a few magnanimous things finally just gave in and spoke to all our mourning hearts. “It’s sad as hell,” said Carden. “We can say it’s great, but it sucks.” Jamil immediately added, “We hate Mike.”
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For the rest of their hour at SDCC everyone on stage traded loving barbs, gave sincere testimonials about what an inspiring leader Schur is, whipped the crowd into a minor frenzy over the injustice of Carden’s Emmy snub — which included a brief monologue by the showrunner about how there absolutely were not five better supporting actresses on television this year — and the proceeds finally concluded with Jackson tabling all his sarcasm and earnestly thanking Schur for The Good Place. The cast then lead the room in a lengthy standing ovation for the show’s creator while he sat and tried not to cry. As you look at this photo of everyone holding each other over sad Mike, we invite you to cry it out, too.
https://ew.com/tv/2019/09/12/the-good-place-web-series-season-4/
The Bad Place searches for the best worst humans in new Good Place footage
By Dan Snierson
September 12, 2019 at 12:00 PM EDT
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There’s not much Good left in the world. The Good Place is entering its fourth and final season, with only 14 chapters remaining in this comedic adventure of four lost souls — plus one architect, and one human-ish information system — trying to find their way in the afterlife. At the end of the NBC comedy’s third season, a final experiment was agreed upon by team-switching architect Michael (Ted Danson) and Bad Place boss Shawn (Marc Evan Jackson) to determine the fate of Team Cockroach, not to mention the rest of humanity, with Judge Gen (Maya Rudolph) overseeing these all-important proceedings.
As you know, Eleanor (Kristen Bell), Chidi (William Jackson Harper), Jason (Manny Jacinto) and Tahani (Jameela Jamil) shall serve as morality mentors to four new test subjects, who are chosen by the Bad Place and who will need to better themselves in the time of one Earth year. Two of the human guinea pigs were introduced in the finale — Chidi’s neuroscientist ex Simone (Kirby Howell-Baptiste) and Tahani’s enemy in the blogosphere, John (Brandon Scott Jones) — and the other two will be revealed in the season 4 premiere.
Here’s what you don’t know: how these people were handpicked by the Bad Place for this Medium Place-set experiment. Enter the six-webisode series The Good Place Presents: The Selection, which delves into the literal dark side of the decision-making. Judge Gen has certain rules that the Bad Place needs to follow in selecting the test subjects, and Shawn has forgotten to share them with his squad. So, in the first installment — which EW exclusively presents above — when Shawn calls a meeting of the malicious minds to order to figure out which humans who would show the best chance of no chance of bettering themselves, he receives suggestions like John Wayne Gacy, as well as Hitlers Adolph and Steve. Time to explain the rules. “The judge said that the four new humans have to be the same level of badness as the original ding-dongs,” says Shawn. “Somehow to her that means no dictators, no serial killers, and no white musicians who ever did a semi-ironic cover of a rap song.” Check out the first episode to enjoy some truly wicked humor, including one joke involving Emily Dickinson and Joe Rogan.
All six episodes will be released on the NBC app early Friday morning, which is less than two weeks from the season 4 premiere on Sept. 26. For a first look at the final season, divine your way over here.
The Bad Place searches for the best worst humans in new Good Place footage
By Dan Snierson
September 12, 2019 at 12:00 PM EDT
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EXCLUSIVE: 'THE GOOD DOCTOR' SEASON 3 TRAILER PREVIEWS SHAUN AND CARLY'S BUDDING ROMANCE
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There’s not much Good left in the world. The Good Place is entering its fourth and final season, with only 14 chapters remaining in this comedic adventure of four lost souls — plus one architect, and one human-ish information system — trying to find their way in the afterlife. At the end of the NBC comedy’s third season, a final experiment was agreed upon by team-switching architect Michael (Ted Danson) and Bad Place boss Shawn (Marc Evan Jackson) to determine the fate of Team Cockroach, not to mention the rest of humanity, with Judge Gen (Maya Rudolph) overseeing these all-important proceedings.
As you know, Eleanor (Kristen Bell), Chidi (William Jackson Harper), Jason (Manny Jacinto) and Tahani (Jameela Jamil) shall serve as morality mentors to four new test subjects, who are chosen by the Bad Place and who will need to better themselves in the time of one Earth year. Two of the human guinea pigs were introduced in the finale — Chidi’s neuroscientist ex Simone (Kirby Howell-Baptiste) and Tahani’s enemy in the blogosphere, John (Brandon Scott Jones) — and the other two will be revealed in the season 4 premiere.
Here’s what you don’t know: how these people were handpicked by the Bad Place for this Medium Place-set experiment. Enter the six-webisode series The Good Place Presents: The Selection, which delves into the literal dark side of the decision-making. Judge Gen has certain rules that the Bad Place needs to follow in selecting the test subjects, and Shawn has forgotten to share them with his squad. So, in the first installment — which EW exclusively presents above — when Shawn calls a meeting of the malicious minds to order to figure out which humans who would show the best chance of no chance of bettering themselves, he receives suggestions like John Wayne Gacy, as well as Hitlers Adolph and Steve. Time to explain the rules. “The judge said that the four new humans have to be the same level of badness as the original ding-dongs,” says Shawn. “Somehow to her that means no dictators, no serial killers, and no white musicians who ever did a semi-ironic cover of a rap song.” Check out the first episode to enjoy some truly wicked humor, including one joke involving Emily Dickinson and Joe Rogan.
All six episodes will be released on the NBC app early Friday morning, which is less than two weeks from the season 4 premiere on Sept. 26. For a first look at the final season, divine your way over here.
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