The Good Place - Season 4
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The fourth and final season of the fantasy comedy television series The Good Place, created by Michael Schur, was ordered by NBC on December 4, 2018.[2] The season premiered on September 26, 2019, and consisted of 14 episodes.The season is produced by Fremulon, 3 Arts Entertainment, and Universal Television.
The series focuses on Eleanor Shellstrop (Kristen Bell), a deceased young woman who wakes up in the afterlife and is welcomed by Michael (Ted Danson) to \"the Good Place\" in reward for her righteous life; however, she eventually discovers that Michael's \"Good Place\" is a hoax, and she is actually in the \"Bad Place\", to be psychologically and emotionally tortured by her fellow afterlife residents. Eleanor and Michael claim that \"the points system\" for assigning humans to the Good Place or Bad Place is fundamentally flawed; in the real world, assigning a certain action as categorically Good or Bad is practically impossible due to unintended consequences. In the fourth season, they are given a chance to prove their hypothesis. They design an experiment meant to demonstrate that humans in a simulated Good Place can show moral development. One of the experiment subjects is Eleanor's boyfriend, Chidi (William Jackson Harper), who has volunteered to have his memory erased to preserve the integrity of the experiment. Jameela Jamil, Manny Jacinto, and D'Arcy Carden also star as Eleanor and Michael's friends and collaborators in the experiment. Each of the episodes is listed as \"Chapter (xx)\" following the opening title card; the final episode is listed as \"The Final Chapter\".
On Rotten Tomatoes, the fourth season has a rating of 100%, based on 25 reviews, with an average rating of 8.3/10. The site's critical consensus reads, \"A wild philosophical ride to the very end, The Good Place brings it home with a forking good final season.\"[29]
Kristen Bell is directing an episode this season, as are the script supervisor and director. Kristen has praised Ken Garoo for his work on the show, and his ability \"to empower people around him\" and always seeing the potential in people and cultivating it.[5]
The fourth and final season of The Good Place has now aired, which means most regions around the world have now seen the series drop onto Netflix. The United States is the final region to get season four of The Good Place on Netflix, where it is due to arrive in September 2020!
Filming for the fourth season began in April 2019. NBC then aired episode one of The Good Place season four on September 26th, 2019 and ran up to Christmas before taking a break and returning to NBC on January 9th, 2020.
The goal of The Good Place season 4 is a modest one: just merely prove that human beings are fundamentally good when not compromised by their environment and therefore worthy of eternal bliss. No big deal!
This article about Season 4 of the series The Good Place was originally published on June 10, 2019 and updated on May 23, 2021 following the release of the season on NBC. Read on for the original article, with some new changes to reflect the latest updates on this topic.
The series was renewed in early December 2018 for a fourth season. In a statement (via TVLine), NBC co-presidents of scripted programming Tracey Pakosta and Lisa Katz shared their excitement for another season of the show.
The finale of the series followed the introduction of the door in the previous episode as a way of solving the Good Place's (the place, rather than the show) biggest problem: that everyone in it became emotionally numb because they knew they would be there forever, making everything seem meaningless.
In order to stop Janet (D'Arcy Carden) forgetting about him (even though, as she points out, that's actually impossible), he makes her a necklace which he then cannot find. He says his goodbyes to Janet, and we think he has walked through the door.
The next person who feels they are ready to leave is Chidi, which causes a problem: He is ready to go, but love of his (after)life Eleanor is not ready for him to go. She plans a trip around his favorite places in the world, but eventually realises she has to let him go.
Janet takes him to the gate and he walks through. Then, Jason reappears, telling her he never went through the doorway because he wanted to give Janet the necklace. While waiting for her to return, he has spent many \"Jeremy Bearimys\" pondering the infinity of the universe and communing with nature, which Janet points out to him is what a monk does, suggesting that four seasons after he was trapped in Michael's fake Good Place having to pretend to be a monk, he has finally reached the enlightenment of one.
The time then comes for Eleanor to talk through the gate. We see her turn into a ball of energy, which then heads to Earth. We see her enter the body of a neighbor of Michael's, who has thrown away a letter addressed to Michael that was delivered to him by mistake. Once Eleanor's energy enters him, he changes his mind and delivers the letter to Michael, who laughs with pleasure when he sees it is that very human of things, a discount card. After totally changing the way the Good Place works for eternity, Jason and Chidi's energies have come back to earth, making people commit good acts and treat each other with a little more kindness.
Schur considers it a toss-up between ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle or American philosopher/recently retired Harvard professor Tim Scanlon, who wrote the oft-referenced tome What We Owe to Each Other, which pops up on the show in several occasions. \"In season 2, the show's official position on ethics was most closely aligned with Aristotle,\" he explains. \"Aristotle was the philosopher who had a certain practice-makes-perfect thing. The way you get better at being ethical is by doing good things over and over. Scanlon talked about your happiness [being] entirely dependent on your ability to make peace with those around you. His What We Owe to Each Other is a book about, 'If you're coming up with rules, you have to come up with rules that other people won't reject. That's the way you know it's a good rule.'\" Schur pays third-place props to 18th-century Prussian philosopher Immanuel Kant \"because Chidi was a Kantian. We spent a lot of time trying to figure out what Kant would say about human behavior, and mostly what he would say is, 'You're all doing it wrong, and you're all terrible.'\"
Oh, there was a whopper, indeed. Wanting to keep the season 1 finale's game-changing twist that the Good Place was actually the Bad Place a secret, Schur decided to keep the circle of knowledge so tight, it didn't include NBC executives at first, or even most of the cast. \"We were lying to them every day,\" he laments. \"Kant would say, 'Bad job, guys! You blew it.' Ted [Danson] and Kristen [Bell] knew, but the other four didn't; none of the directors and a lot of the crew didn't know. We were basically keeping this very big secret from the people that we were the most closely intertwined in this creative endeavor. It felt bad all the time. It was an enormous relief when we finally got to tell them.\"
Do you hear wind chimes ringing from an R-rated place That can only mean the arrival of Janet's cheery, glitchy, deformed creation Derek, played by Jason Mantzoukas. \"Anytime Jason Mantzoukas is on the show, you know exactly what he's going to do, which is be the world's funniest living person,\" praises Schur. \"We brought Derek back more times than we would have if any other actor had played him. It became really enjoyable to know that there's this insane, free-floating bizarro quasi-Janet in her universe. We were originally going to have him die at the end of his episode, but we decided to basically put him on ice, knowing even at the time that we'd figure out a way to bring him back. And then it was incredibly useful, because in that same episode where Jason and Michael went down to rescue Janet, in the logic of the world, someone's got to be running this neighborhood. And it's like, 'Well, there is Derek. Maybe Derek can handle it.'\"
There were two actors in particular that Schur targeted from the beginning of the show, and both appeared in the final season. First up: Timothy Olyphant. \"We were designing an episode where they really needed the Judge to pay attention to something and the Judge was refusing,\" he recalls. \"The pitch was always that Janet makes a Timothy Olyphant while the judge is in a real Timothy Olyphant phase. She's bingeing Justified and she's just watched Deadwood. So in the premiere of season 4, we laid in a thing where she mentioned that she's finally watching Deadwood and she's really excited about it. And then a little later we lay in a thing where she's watching Justified. So at a key moment, they're like, 'We need her to pay attention to us, and the way they achieve it is by conjuring a Timothy Olyphant.' So I called him and said, 'Do you want to play yourself as a piece of eye candy for the judge' And he was like, 'Absolutely.'\"
Schur has intrigued fans by occasionally hinting that the world of The Good Place was intertwined with a previous creation of his, Parks and Recreation. (Oh, hello, Lil' Sebastian!) Despite all of the Parks winks, no Pawnee character was ever spotted in the afterlife. Which prompts the question: Who would have been best suited for a cross-over moment \"Of all the characters on that show, Ron [Nick Offerman] had the most intense moral code,\" opines Schur. \"He was the most philosophical, even though he would've never wanted to admit that. Although an argument can be made for Eagleton Ron, played by Sam Elliott. It might've been fun to see how Ron would navigate the afterlife. But it's hard not to say Leslie [Amy Poehler], because Leslie was the most intense of all the