Drew Goddard has plenty of good feelings about The Good Place season 4

Executive Producer of The Good Place Drew Goddard sat down at San Diego Comic-Con to discuss everything the show has imparted in its first three seasons.

There isn’t a better feel-good show on TV right now than The Good Place. But not only is it a feel-good show, it imparts wisdom beyond its years and makes you think more deeply about everything around you.

Executive Producer Drew Goddard has worked on plenty of different projects in his career. At San Diego Comic-Con, Culturess sat down at a round table interview to discuss The Good Place with Goddard, and we weren’t surprised to see how much love he has for the show and its influence on the world.

Here’s what he had to say about the show:

"I can only speak from personal experience: Being around this show has made me a better person, has made me ask questions about how to be a better person. In thinking about the show and living in the show, and I really believe that I’m not the only one. In just watching the show, it’s made me more conscious of other people–all those little things that the show’s about. And I know that that’s going to radiate outward–I know it is, because we can feel it. It’s like a benevolent virus, it’s just radiating outward."

It’s hard not to talk about The Good Place and bring up that this upcoming fourth season is its last. Goddard has some thoughts why on it’s ending after four seasons, and he makes it sound like fans won’t be disappointed when those final credits roll:

"I saw the scripts and went, “Oh, this is the perfect way to end the show.” And it’s so rare in TV that you get to end the show on your terms. Either they cut you too early or you do well and they just make you do it forever… I think when everyone sees the finale, they will understand exactly why it needed to end right now."

That instills some confidence. Still, we’ve grown to love these characters over the last three seasons. It will be hard to say farewell.

But… will the show be able to stick the landing for its ending? “I think that’s what’s so key about getting to end it on our terms,” Goddard explains. “If we overstayed our welcome, we would creatively feel it.”

He goes on to say:

"If you go too long, what happens is you end up trying to tie up threads. That’s really what ends up happening… As opposed to, say, exactly what you want to say. And the show has always just said what it wants to say, because we’ve been given the freedom to do that."

That last point is true. Think of Lost and how its final season floundered in answering questions. More recently, think of Game of Thrones and its last few episodes. The Good Place has always been about saying something, and it’s always had the right thing to say.

The final season of The Good Place will air this fall on NBC.