Mike Schur explains why he ends the Good Place adventure

Last night, Mike Schur announced, not quite unexpected, but still a bit sad, that the fourth season of his beloved NBC series The right place would be his last. Schur made the announcement via a letter posted on Twitter, pointing out that the decision to end the series came from him and other members of his creative team, and from them alone. But for those looking for more details on how Schur views the series and why he felt that 53 episodes (including a one-hour finale) was the right time to stop, you're lucky: he's also granted a long interview to The Hollywood Reporter Last night, he explained everything: since when he determined exactly how long he wanted the series to last, to NBC's reaction to information, to his vision of the ethical framework that underpinned the entire series.

Schur confirms that he worked on the entire show arc during a planning session, after renewing it for a second season, that is to say after the show cleared the point where he would not have just gone into history as a very strange, very wonderful. Fun of a season:

I did not think it had to be definitive, but I needed to know how long I thought the idea could last. I quickly came to the conclusion that it was four seasons. At first, I had the impression that maybe it was five and maybe even three. (LaughsOnce I settled in four seasons, I did not tell anyone except the scriptwriters. I did not say anything to the studio or the network because I wanted to make sure that I was right and that I wanted to leave open the possibility that, when the team was developing the show, I wanted to allow the possibility that something changes and that there is more I wanted to do.

Schur says he has informed the actors in the series – which remain, it seems, among the most effective of television – of the news as they filmed the end of the third season of the series. He also said he resisted the urge to make the series one of his most valuable mysteries, noting that there is a big difference between narrative twists and turns. The right place Enthusiastic and pulling the fans' rug: "There is something tempting to the idea of ​​Beyoncé – the end of the series, where you make an episode and say goodbye and run away! It's a fun idea in theory, but the way we planned the last season, I do not think people do not know."

Fortunately, the overall impression is that it is an extremely thoughtful choice. In the interview, Schur talks as much about how the series has reinforced its own connection with ethics as mechanisms to finish it. ("It's a very simple utilitarian calculation that other people are involved here and they have every right to know what their future is.") He also makes the promise that The right place will come out as he lived (then die, then relive, then we'll all see the Time-Knife): "So let's go all the way to the end. Everyone at the end of the day is happy to be able to end it as we started: at breakneck speed, with lots of crazy and wild twists. "