Alan Sepinwall goes behind the scenes on set of the final season of TheGoodPlace, the series that taught us about ethics while making us laugh our asses off
“This all started,” he recalls, “from NBC doing something insane, which was telling me that they would take any idea I had and guarantee it 13 episodes. And what I took from that offer was, ‘Well, I now owe it to the concept of ideas to come up with a crazy idea.’ Why play it safe in that scenario?”
Writer Megan Amram says the writers room can get intense: “We talk at length about death, and about what it means to us to be a good person, and how we as the writers are genuinely trying to change our day-to-day lives to be better people. We sucked so bad when we started the show, and now we’re all vegetarians. It’s great.” Writer Jen Statsky sayshas helped her cope with our current national nightmare. “The main tenet of the show,” she says, “is you’ve got to try.
Even the citizens of Jacksonville, Florida, who take an enormous comic beating from the references to Jason’s hometown and his many loud name drops of former Jaguars quarterback Blake Bortles, get positive vibes from the series. “Whenever I meet somebody from Jacksonville,” Manny Jacinto says, “I ask them, ‘How do you guys feel about these jokes?’ And they’re usually like, ‘We love it. We love that you’re representing for us.’”weren’t so forking funny and inventive at every turn.
To bring the writers’ strange inventions, like the multiple Janets, to life, the series has its own in-house visual effects wizard, David Niednagel. But Danson himself supplies at least as much of the magic, with a performance that’s everything Schur asks of him and more: otherworldly but also deeply childlike and vulnerable, cartoonish but also capable of intense, admirable humanity.
“I think we don’t know how lucky we are,” says Danson. “I’m really proud to have been part of it. It’s a great conversation to be had. And the fact that 11- and 12-year-olds are coming up loving the show, to me that’s when kids are just starting to turn their headlights on and they’re understanding humor and they’re very impressionable and smart. So if they like the show, we’re doing something right.
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