The Good Place Season 5 Release Date: Is the Netflix Comedy Cancelled?

An Ode to The Fans of the Shows In Brief

By Lois Robinett On Jul 10, 2022

The Good Place is an American fantasy comedy television series created by Michael Schur. On NBC, it began on September 19, 2016, and it aired for four seasons before concluding on January 30, 2020. Yes. You read it right. The show has concluded and According to thebulletintime, there will be no season five.

This post is dedicated to all the fans of the show all around the world. Here, we will trace the journey of the The Good Show from its origins to its conclusion in brief.

The Fantastic Pitch by Michael Schur for A Good Place

Back in August 2015, NBC gave a 13-episode series commitment order to a then-untitled comedy from “Parks and Recreation” and “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” executive producer Michael Schur. Michael Schur’s pitch was so good that the entertainment giant was ready immediately back up the project.

The President of NBC Jennifer Salke at that time said, “For seven seasons, Mike Schur brought us the wonderful citizens of Pawnee, and we can’t wait to see the new group of indelible characters that he’ll now introduce. He came in recently and pitched the entire first season, and we loved it so much we ordered it to production.

Mike prefers to keep details under wraps while he meets actors and actresses, but I can tell you that the man who brought Amy Poehler to Prime Time is bringing us another funny, strong and particularly complicated female character – yes, the lead is a woman – in a comedy like nothing seen before, about a woman wrestling with what it means to be good. We’re very excited about this show!”

The Cast of A Good Place

In January 2016, Ted Danson and Kristen Bell were cast. Their roles and the main premise of the show were disclosed. Bell plays Eleanor, a woman from New Jersey who comes to realize that she hasn’t been a great person. She decides to turn over a new leaf by learning what it actually means to be “good” or “bad,” and then trying to make up for her past behavior. Danson plays Michael, who, through an unlikely set of circumstances, comes to be Eleanor’s guide through her self-designed self-improvement course.

For his legendary performance as bartender Sam Malone on the 28-time Emmy Award-winning NBC comedy “Cheers,” Danson was well-known. Danson received 11 Emmy nominations throughout the show’s remarkable 11-season run, winning two of them. In addition to “Cheers,” Danson is well known for his work on the critically acclaimed comedy “Bored to Death” and “Curb Your Enthusiasm” from HBO.

Bell had an extensive television experience, most notably the lead role in the popular drama “Veronica Mars,” which ran from 2004-07. She has many other TV credits, including “Heroes”, “Gossip Girl Heroes”, “Deadwood”, “Party Down”, “House of Lies” and “Parks and Recreation.”

Manny Jacinto’s was cast as a “kind and good-natured Jason” whose “goal is to make a career as a Dj in Southern Florida”. Jameela Jamil was chosen to play Tessa, who later adopted the name Tahani. William Jackson Harper was cast in the role of Chris although the name of the character was changed to Chidi.

The Good Place and Its Religious Undertones

A viewer can mistakenly believe, upon first glance, that NBC’s The Good Place has a religious undercurrent or even parodies religious themes and values. Executive producer and creator Michael Schur hastens to point out that the viewer would be mistaken. Schur is aware of the uncertainty. But he emphasizes that even though The Good Place is a comedy set in the afterlife, it is not a religious show.

“It is very important to make clear in the first 30 seconds of the pilot, that this is not one religion’s concept of the afterlife,” Schur tells The Hollywood Reporter. “I did a lot of research.” After perusing various theological studies and treatises on holy documents, “I stopped doing research because I realized it’s about versions of ethical behavior, not religious salvation,” he says. “The show isn’t taking a side, the people who are there are from every country and religion.”In fact, the pilot goes out of its way to demonstrate a United Nations of characters and belief systems. The idea, Schur says, is that “not only Christians from Europe can make it to heaven.”

The Connection with Lost

During a panel at the Television Critics Association press tour, Schur explained that each episode of A Good Place has a contained story, and at the end, “something dramatic happens and it sends the story spiraling,” he said. “The model in my head is ‘Lost.’” One of the first people he called when he developed the series, he said, was “Lost” co-creator Damon Lindelof. “I took him to lunch and said, ‘We’re going to play a game ‘Is this anything?’”

The Best Part of The Good Place was the Dramatic Cliffhangers

The Good Place’s cliffhangers were one of its more underappreciated aspects. The show never allowed its characters or viewers to get too close to predict. The protagonists were continuously faced with faced fresh obstacles and shocking truths, and the situation never stayed the same for very long.

In order to accomplish this, cliffhangers were frequently necessary because the characters would be confronted with a fresh obstacle or shocking revelations in the final moments of an episode and be required to deal with it right away in the next. The best cliffhangers on the program were the ones that felt deserved, were the unexpected, and opened up a tonne of possibilities

Biding Goodbye

On June 8, 2019 the official twitter account of the show posted before the premier of the fourth season:

Dear Residents of #TheGoodPlace Neighborhood 12358W… pic.twitter.com/UVsm5x704p

— The Good Place is taking it sleazy (@nbcthegoodplace) June 8, 2019

Through this statement, Schur said that he believed four seasons with roughly fifty episodes would be the ideal runtime for this show when the concept and pacing for the tale were developed.

Comment down you favorite your moments from the The Good Place. That’s it, guys. Adios.