When I asked Harper about what Chidi might mean to people, he was philosophical. And Harper, in pouring himself into the role, makes him un-missable. [82] She also made a cameo alongside political philosopher Todd May in the final episode.

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(It probably helps that he is, as Kristen Bell’s Eleanor Shellstrop once said, “surprisingly jacked.”) For a viewer like me, who grew up being compared to characters like Steve Urkel, the ubernerd portrayed by Jaleel White on the ’90s sitcom “Family Matters,” he summons a welcome, if skewed, sense of recognition. The site's critical consensus reads, "Charming and curious as ever, The Good Place remains a delightfully insightful bright spot on the television landscape. Factory.

The site's critical consensus reads, "A wild philosophical ride to the very end, The Good Place brings it home with a forking good final season. In creating stories that make you and others even slightly more visible, you see how invisible you were before.

Later, he tells me about how hard it is to make dinner plans. As he shares all this and more, I can tell he’s smart. He’s scholarly, prone to stomach aches brought on by intense anxiety, and he can talk at length about Kantian ethics. [81] The concept "Hell is other people" is an often-misunderstood philosophical idiom meant to reflect that "Hell is other people because you are, in some sense, forever trapped within them, subject to their apprehension of you. If “The Good Place” is about figuring out how to be a better person, he thinks you ought to strive to be better than Chidi.