Well, it has ended. It's all too short stay with us, that strange and yet captivating series, "The Good Place," has come to an end.
And, yes, I watched all of what? four seasons? Is that the length of this series run? Four seasons - and relatively short seasons at that? Really?
And to have said so much in so little time!
Well, thank you.
And for those of you who may be reading but who did not bother with watching, I have to be honest. I am not going to try and capture in a few words the substance and content of this series.
All I can tell you is this - if you can, binge watch this!
Maybe you can pick it up On Demand if you have that feature. And if you cannot do something like that, well, hope for something like, I think it is or at least used to be called, syndication. That's when an old tv series comes back to haunt you still again.
Anyhow, it has ended. Just witnessed the finale.
The Good Place is over.
It won't come back. It can't come back.
That is the nature of this entity.
It was a series that attempted to deal with the afterlife.
It did so humorously and yet seriously and respectfully.
It respected mystery while trying to provide a degree of clarity.
It actually attempted to address the question of what happens when we die.
Now that is being bold!
And for anyone willing to do so, there were many moments that invited serious thought.
One example of such a moment came when Ted Danison, about to be transformed into human (OK, it really is fantasy!) is given the suggestion of excluding death as a possibility.
His response: To be fully human is to include even the element of death!
Chew on that for a while.
Simply put - this show was worth the watch.
It provided lessons in being human, in being able to laugh with and at, in being able to face loss, even the greatest of losses.
It demonstrated that, deep within every person there is a goodness and we can help one another to bring that to the fore.
The NPR reviewer, Linda Holmes, summed it up in this way: "Humanity is beautiful and weird and frustrating, and joy and loss are twins."
And the Good God loves each and every one of us!
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