Mike Schur Explains How the ‘Objective’ of ‘The Good Place’ Changed Midway Through Its Run

Mike Schur said Thursday his objective when making his NBC afterlife comedy “The Good Place” shifted midway through the show’s run. We’ll let him explain: “I thought that at the beginning that the show could, if given the chance, describe what it meant to be a good person,” Schur said during the show’s farewell panel at the Television Critics Association press tour. “I think that objective kind of shifted a little bit, because what we found as we discussed it and wrote it and executed it, is that some very, very smart people over the last 3,000 years have had a lot of very different opinions about that question.” And so Schur said that they tweaked their message to instead providing “a bunch of different options” for how to be a good person, knowing that they weren’t going to provide every conceivable way for someone to be considered good. The point, Schur said, was that you’re trying to be good. Also Read: NBC Orders Additional Scripts for 'Bluff City Law' Ahead of Premiere “What’s important is that you try,” he continued. “That became, that was sort of my internal shift over the course of making the show, was the newfound belief...

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