The Good Place

The Book of Dougs - S3-E10

Plot hole: Doug Forcett is shown to have lived a completely selfless life but did not have enough points to go to the Good Place and will be sent to the Bad Place. Mindy St Clare was never sent to the Good Place or the Bad Place but instead to the Medium Place because of one selfless act her entire life. She still would not have as many points as Doug as it was determined that before her charitable act, she was a corporate lawyer who only cared about money and cocaine.

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Suggested correction: This is not a plot hole but the central conflict of Season 3. Michael discovers that the modern world's complexity makes it impossible to earn enough points; every "good" act now carries unintended negative consequences (e.g., environmental impact). Mindy St. Claire is the only exception because her charity was enacted after her death. Since she wasn't alive to accrue "unintended" negative points from its operation, her score resulted in a unique legal deadlock, not a higher total than Doug.

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Trivia: The cast were sworn to secrecy to not reveal the big twist at the end of season one. Reportedly, all the cast members were really good at keeping the secret... except Ted Danson, who couldn't help but give away the twist anytime he tried to explain the show to someone.

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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

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.

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