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[SPOILER ALERT: This story contains plot details from Thursday night’s season finale ofThe Good Place.]
The Good Placehas gone bad.
Credit: Vivian Zink/NBC
Or, asLostput it: live together, die alone.
If onlyThe Good PlacehadLost’sratings.
(Michael thought he could dupe her for a thousand years; Shawn bet six months.)
He got his wish.
Eleanor, Chidi, Tahani, and Jason were made to forget this season ever happened and separated.
Michael’s new idea, it seems, is that hell should be divisiveness and isolationism.
The Good Placewas, IMHO, one of the best shows of 2016.
A premature call, perhaps, but I loved it that much.
RobotorWestworld(and I loved both of those shows last year, more so than most critics).
A controversial hallmark of this genre is the big twist.
(I have contributed to this condition with my writing aboutLost, Fringe,Mr.
Robot, andWestworld, for better and worse.
I can defend my practice, but I recognize that it also sews confusion.)
But I wasn’t anticipating a radical retcon that reframed the series.
(More of him, c’mon.)
I never experienced that as a logic bust, nor did it ever really make me suspicious.
(Where are Chidi, Tahani, and Jason, by the way?
Have they been relocated to their own “good places”?)
(A love interest is the obvious possibility.
Here’s hoping for some killer casting there.
Eleanor is the Anti-Knope slowly becoming conformed to Knope-likeness.
Her friends are outsiders, not insiders, redemption-seekers evolving into people worthy of being cultural redeemers.
My fellow Americans, we needThe Good Place, now more than ever.
NBC, make it so.A-
