'The Good Place' will end after its upcoming fourth season
No forking shirt, The Good Place will permanently move on to the afterlife after its upcoming fourth season, which debuts sometime this fall.
The announcement was made Friday night by series creator Mike Schur (who's also responsible for Brooklyn Nine-Nine and Parks & Rec). He shared a statement to Twitter, in which he says, "Making this show is a rare, creatively fulfilling joy, and at the end of the day, we don't want to tread water just because the water is so warm and pleasant."
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Schur notes that once the show was picked up for its second season, the writers mapped out what they thought would be the rest of the show and decided that "four seasons -- just over 50 episodes -- was the right lifespan."
Schur also chatted extensively with The Hollywood Reporter about the show and the decision to bring it to a close, saying, "It was completely dictated by the idea and how much juice I thought the idea contained and the pace at which we were letting story unfold and stuff like that."
This announcement, understandably, has the show's fans deep in their feelings like Chidi making Peeps chili.
But at least everyone was able to commiserate together just as the Soul Squad would want.
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Now all we can do is spend our summer speculating and awaiting the final fate for Eleanor, Chidi, Jason, Tahani, Michael, and Janet.
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Marcus Gilmer is Mashable's Assistant Real-Times News Editor on the West Coast, reporting on breaking news from his location in San Francisco. An Alabama native, Marcus earned his BA from Birmingham-Southern College and his MFA in Communications from the University of New Orleans. Marcus has previously worked for Chicagoist, The A.V. Club, the Chicago Sun-Times and the San Francisco Chronicle.