We Have Our First Look At S4 Of ‘The Good Place’ & Everything Is Absolutely Not Fine
I'm not forkin' crying, you're crying.
Feel-good philosophical sitcom The Good Place returns to Netflix later this month for its fourth and final season, and we’ve scored a sentimental first look.
Strong spoiler warning here: season three finished off with legit snack Eleanor (Kristen Bell) taking on the role of the Architect in an all-new simulation, just like the one she, Chidi (William Jackson Harper), Tahani (Jameela Jamil) and Jason (Manny Jacinto) inhabited.
Except this time the aim is to see if a new set of humans, including Chidi’s Australian ex, Simone (Kirby Howell-Baptiste, putting on a deeply offensive accent), have the capacity to become better people and thus earn their way into the real Good Place.
Also there was that kick in our guts/hearts when Chidi asked to have his memory wiped so he wouldn’t accidentally reveal their intentions to Simone and spoil the experiment – which meant forgetting everything about he and Eleanor’s three-season love story arc. My feelings! They ache!
With our first look from NBC, the cast reflects on four seasons of genuinely grappling with the nature of human existence – Is this all futile? What obligations do we have to one another? Is it possible to grow and change? – and creator Mike Schur’s decision to end the series while they’re ahead.
We also catch a couple BTS glimpses of filming, intercut with highlights from the earlier seasons. It’s designed to get you overly emotional.
Ted Danson mused that shooting the final episode hit home especially because, “within the story there are goodbyes that are mirroring us, the actors, having to say goodbye”.
In contrast to Danson’s earnestness, Jacinto appeared to be capturing the whole experience with a retro camera for posterity/Danson: “I’m trying to come up with some sort of collection of photos that we can look back on ten years down the road when Ted has forgotten me. I’ll have this proof that we worked together.”
And Jamil had her own reflection on working with TV great, Ted Danson: “This was my first ever acting job and I got to learn everything from Ted. So if I’m bad in this, it’s because of Ted Danson, and I’m sorry about that. And he’s sorry.”
The Good Place streams on Netflix from September 27.