‘The Good Place’ Cast on What’s Next for Eleanor & Chidi and Saying Goodbye (VIDEO)
It’s un-forkin’-believable how great The Good Place really is — and that just makes it even harder to say goodbye.
Though the NBC afterlife comedy is coming to an end with its upcoming fourth season, the stars and creatives — Kristen Bell, Ted Danson, Jameela Jamil, D’Arcy Carden, Manny Jacinto, William Jackson Harper, Marc Evan Jackson, creator Mike Schur, and executive producer Drew Goddard — dropped by TV Insider’s video suite at San Diego Comic-Con 2019, sponsored by Tate’s Bake Shop, to look back on their time together.
Schur, who is known for being tight-lipped on the series, teased that he’d written the finale script, but at the time, he hadn’t yet shared it with the cast because: “It was a metaphysical certitude that Ted Danson would spoil it for everyone that he talked to.”
And what about that heartbreaking Season 3 finale? Can Eleanor deal with watching a memory-wiped Chidi go through the experiment of The Good Place? “I want to see Eleanor set an example for what it’s like to sacrifice for someone,” Bell teases. “But I think Eleanor will probably prove her love for Chidi.”
Jackson Harper adds: “I think we saw at the end of Season 3 that this show is a bullet train that only goes forward, or backward — or Jeremy Bearimy,” he says with a laugh. He’s not wrong.
In terms of forward motion, when asked what they plan to take from set, Goddard revealed there are a lot of folks interested in one particular item. “I think there’s going to be a genuine knife fight over who gets the Doug Forseth painting,” he says. Bell also shared her plans to take home one of the street signs from inside The Good Place to live in a place of honor in her home.
Check out the full interview above to see what the cast said!
The Good Place, Season 4 Premiere, Thursday, September 26, NBC
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Oh, thank you so much for this Good Place video from Comic Con! I adore this show, and it was so fun and also heartwarming to see the cast this way. I know they're going out the way they want, but I will so miss watching these amazing people do what they love.
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Never seen this show. Critics seem to like it which idk if that's good or not. Anyway, Ted Danson will always be most known for Sam Malone and John Becker more than anything else he's ever done. Those are his defining roles, especially Sam "Mayday" Malone. Cheers and Becker are two amazing sitcoms that hold up extremely well. Love that Ted is still going at seventy something!
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I might since I do love Ted Danson though it'll be hard to distinguish him from his most iconic roles Sam Malone and Dr. John Becker. It is really rare for an actor to go from one giant hit to if not giant hit another hit show that was if not the same high quality damn near close. Ted Danson, Patricia Heaton, Tim Allen, Michael J. Fox, Julia Louis Dreyfuss(with three) Sherman Hemsley etc. managed to do what is seemingly impossible which is to go from iconic tv shows to another hit, though the second show never is the exact level of icon or success as the first, Ed O'Neill seems to be the exception with Married with children and Modern Family that are both iconic situation comedies with the same longevity and cultural touchstone. It sucks to lose Elementary too, I already don't watch a lot of current tv myself, mostly into classic reruns tbh.
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He does and he should've won multiple emmys for the role of John Becker! That was one of the greatest sitcom roles ever created and portrayed and yet nothing.
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