SPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched “Patty,” the penultimate episode of “The Good Place.” The titular good place on Mike Schur’s philosophical comed…
Sure, after four seasons the characters on the show did take a hot balloon ride to heaven — although the show doesn’t call it that — but when they got there, they quickly realized it was not all it had been cracked up to be. Instead, what would make the time there worth spending was that the souls there believed they could choose when that time came to an end.
Says Schur: “It starts, as all things on this show do, with philosophy. A lot of the reading that we did and a lot of the discussions we had over four years was about this inescapable truth that any version of eternity is bad; you cannot design an eternity that is satisfying because when things go on forever everything loses meaning.
Was there any opposition in the writers’ room to the idea that even in paradise if something went on forever it would end up spoiling? That gets into the finale a little bit, but yeah, the first problem they have to solve is just that nothing like that exists. They have to create it, and then other stuff happens.
When we designed the character we knew she had to be foggy-brained and carry that comedic tone, and Lisa was the only person that made sense for this. I used to work on “The Comeback” a million years ago, and I sent her an email and asked her if she could do it. She was vacationing with her family, ironically I think in Greece, and she was like, “This is is a sign.” So she came and did it and was delightful, as she always is.
The episode ends on such a sweet moment, specifically for Eleanor and Chidi but still with the feeling that everyone will be OK and that there is still a lot of time they will spend together. What are the challenges then of wrapping the actual show up with a similar satisfying feeling in the next episode?
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