TheGoodPlace creator Mike Schur goes deep on swole Chidi, JeremyBearimy, the new neighborhood and much more
Colleen Hayes/NBC’s first two seasons ended with wild cliffhangers, Mike Schur went into radio silence for a few months to let fans talk amongst themselves about what had happened and what might come next. Season Three concluded in a less shocking place — with Eleanor and friends setting up a new experiment to prove that the afterlife is fundamentally flawed, and with Chidi’s memory being blanked to preserve this new experiment — but Schur still opted for extended quiet. Until now.
Yes, we knew that was the ending before we started shooting — that’s why we had Simone drop a line about “repeating the experiment” in the “Snowplow” episode. We did a lot of research into neuroscience experiments — one of our consultants this year was a neuroscientist/philosopher named Joshua Green, who helped us figure out exactly what Chidi and Simone would be trying to prove, and how they’d go about it.
You’ve worked on other shows where couples took their time getting together, and/or broke up and reunited a few times. With Chidi and Eleanor, you have the added complication of one or both of them getting their minds wiped over and over, to the point where they can fall in love again just by seeing evidence that they had previously fallen in love.
Speaking of Simone, how did you decide that the four new neighborhood residents would all have past ties to our heroes? Was there ever a version of the finale where we got to meet all four, or did you always want to save two to give you more time to write, cast, etc.? Sometimes in writers’ rooms, you have a large-scale problem — a big-picture issue with the way you are presenting the world of the show — and you can either just ignore it, and hope no one questions it, or you can try to explain it in a way that is both satisfactory and funny.
We have thoughts, yes, though honestly I’m not sure if we’ll ever express them on the show. It’s more important that it’s been that long than it is to pinpoint the exact person who slipped through the door right before it closed. We honestly didn’t — it was just a joke, but then when we needed a relationship for Tahani, and we happened to be in Australia, it was just sitting there waiting for us.
He’s a wonderful actor, first and foremost, and his comedy acumen is second to none. But also, I think, Chuck McGill [from] kind of popped into our heads as we were conceiving of his life — isolated, a little fearful of the outside world… Doug is kind of a comedy version of Chuck.
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