Don't Let the Good Life Pass You By - S3-E8
Plot hole: When Janet and Michael visit Doug Forcett, they realise his lifestyle, like drinking his own urine and only eating lentils and radishes, is not the "blueprint" they imagined. However, Janet should already have known all of these details, due to knowing everything about everyone in the universe, so a) she could have told Michael this without visiting Doug, and b) she should not have been learning all this for the first time herself.
Other mistake: When Michael walks into his office and sees Shawn, Michael is wearing a wedding ring. Looks like he forgot to take it off prior to shooting the scene. (01:00:00)
Question: Why is it they never use the words "Heaven" and "Hell"?
Answer: They actually do use those terms, in one episode, when Eleanor starts crying Chidi states he broke God and, there is another episode where someone, I believe Chidi says, we're in heaven. Though not saying those words does not make them atheist, it is stated in the first episode that every religion specifically Christians were a little bit right... So when they got to the good place after learning it is really called the good place it makes no sense to call it something else.
Answer: While the show does explore life after death, the show creators intentionally avoided using many religious terms and beliefs, such as heaven, hell, or God. While one could draw parallels of the Good Place and the Bad Place to heaven and hell, in the show that's not what they're meant to be.
Bishop73
Thank you. It just means, to me, they're atheists.
Rob245
Not sure you can infer them being atheists just because they do not use the terms, "Heaven" and "Hell." Those are mostly traditional Christian concepts. Many religions have different beliefs of what the afterlife is.
raywest ★
Well you couldn't really call them atheist because atheists don't believe in any type of afterlife or any deities. The "good place" and "bad place" are merely broader terms that could include most belief systems.
immortal eskimo