'The Good Place' Season 2 Plot News: Characters Will Figure Out the Truth After Total 'Reset'
The second season of "The Good Place" premiered Wednesday, and showrunner Michael Schur confirmed that viewers will watch the characters as they go on a quest in search for the truth once more.
The act of pressing the reset button is figurative, both in the series and in Schur's writing the second season.
The showrunner told Entertainment Tonight: "As they say, we hit the reset button. All of the characters' memories were wiped clean and they were waking up just like they did in the pilot."
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He added: "It instantly creates a narrative problem, which is that the audience is way ahead of the characters and any time the audience is ahead of the characters, it can get real boring real quick."
"The Good Place" gained approval for a well-thought twist shown in the finale episode of season 1.
The show, which first aired last year, featured the story of deceased individuals spending their afterlife in what they call the good place. The story focused on Eleanor, a saleswoman killed in a road accident, portrayed by Kristen Bell.
Eleanor's arrival at The Good Place, however, was by mistake. The Good Place's "architect" named Michael (Ted Danson) brought her there because he thought she was the lawyer with the same exact name who died starting a movement against the death penalty. Not wanting to leave the utopia, Eleanor decided to pretend to be the lawyer.
Fast forward to the finale, Eleanor and the rest of the deceased she was with was confronted with the truth that they were, in fact, in the opposite of The Good Place.
As Eleanor and others learned the truth, Michael hits a make-believe reset button that wiped out all of the deceased people's memories. The first season concluded with Eleanor waking up without any recollection but found a note she previously wrote telling her to find Chidi (William Jackson Harper).
Meanwhile, Schur also admitted that they felt the pressure to follow up on a successful narrative in the season 1 finale.
"The pressure that I felt wasn't so much specifically from the finale, it was more from the sense of we have to maintain this pace otherwise the show is going to feel like it's slowing down. That was the goal going in, to make the second season week-to-week as exciting as the first," the showrunner said.
"The Good Place" season 2 airs Thursdays at 8:30 p.m. EDT on NBC.
