SPOILER ALERT: This story includes details about tonight’s series finale of NBC’s The Good Place. NBC’s The Good Place ended with one last bout of wrestling with philosophical and…
ended with one last bout of wrestling with philosophical and spiritual issues in its Thursday series finale, striking an uncommonly elegiac — though still jokey — tone for a network sitcom, as it has through its four-season run.
Despite being eligible to go on forever, the characters have all grown bored and empty in their souls. They all calmly insist that the sensation manifests itself with a pervasive feeling of “quietude” that signals to them that they are ready to feel more human again. That setup creates a framework of the episode, which will see characters say goodbye one by one, in a bucolic forest clearing where the “door” is located — though, of course, there are a few twists along the way.
The guitar provides one of the episode’s most deft touches, as Michael is shown throughout the episode stumbling through his attempts to write a song and play it on the guitar. He rejects an offer from Janet, the Siri-like, all-knowing human assistant played by D’Arcy Carden, to just instantly gain the ability to play the guitar perfectly.
Maya Rudolph, the Judge who is content to remain in the administrative realm of the Good Place, cites her latest favorites before putting in her earbuds: “Podcasts! There are a billion of them, and they just keep coming,” she tells Michael. “Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’ve got an episode ofBell’s character, Eleanor, for all intents and purposes the central figure in the series’ quest for goodness, gets one last romantic jaunt with Chidi.
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