[Editor’s Note: The following review contains spoilers for “The Good Place” finale, Season 4, Episode 13 and Episode 14, “Whenever You’re Ready.”]
“The Good Place” began as a show not about what happens after you die, but what constitutes a good life on Earth. With that in mind, the series finale plays out with an elegant simplicity. Each of the four humans — who, over the course of their time in The Bad Place and The Good Place, saved humanity and reconfigured the order of the universe — decide they’ve seen enough, done enough, and forked enough to say goodbye to the universe, reality, and/or consciousness forever.
Though, yes, they were technically dead the whole time, it’s still worth noting that three of the four leads on a broadcast network sitcom vanished from all existence at the end of “The Good Place” — and a fifth one, Michael (Ted “National Treasure” Danson) tried to! Such a morbid ending with such...
“The Good Place” began as a show not about what happens after you die, but what constitutes a good life on Earth. With that in mind, the series finale plays out with an elegant simplicity. Each of the four humans — who, over the course of their time in The Bad Place and The Good Place, saved humanity and reconfigured the order of the universe — decide they’ve seen enough, done enough, and forked enough to say goodbye to the universe, reality, and/or consciousness forever.
Though, yes, they were technically dead the whole time, it’s still worth noting that three of the four leads on a broadcast network sitcom vanished from all existence at the end of “The Good Place” — and a fifth one, Michael (Ted “National Treasure” Danson) tried to! Such a morbid ending with such...
- 1/31/2020
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
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