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Fork this shirt. The day we never thought would come is finally here. You heard that right, The Good Place is leaving Netflix US this September. Feels like a personal attack, doesn’t it? How do you just remove one of the smartest, funniest, and most heart-squishing comedies of our time?

For those of us who binged it over and over (and quoted it at every possible opportunity), The Good Place wasn’t just another show… It was comfort food. It was the thing you put on after a long, terrible day because you knew Eleanor, Chidi, Tahani, Jason, Janet, and Michael would be there to make you laugh and maybe even make you think.

Now Netflix is pulling it away from us. That is exactly the feeling when the group realised all this time they were in hell. However, the good news for Netflix viewers other than in the US region is that the show will continue to stream till September 26th, 2026.

The creator, Michael Schur, has created some of the most iconic sitcoms of our time but nothing quite as rare as The Good Place. Starting with The Office, Parks and Recreation, and Brooklyn Nine-Nine, he made himself quite a career, but The Good Place might just be his masterpiece. It was never just another “group of quirky people” comedy, as it dared to ask big, messy, existential questions.

Ask yourself, how many shows out there can make you laugh till your stomach hurts and then suddenly have you questioning your life choices in the same episode?

And the acting? Perfection. Kristen Bell was born to play Eleanor. She was sharp, sarcastic, and the perfect amount of selfish. William Jackson Harper made philosophy somehow feel cool. Jameela Jamil turned Tahani into comedy gold while also giving her depth you never expected. Manny Jacinto as Jason, and then there’s D’Arcy Carden’s Janet. She sounds like a character that should not have worked on paper but became one of the show’s beating hearts. And then comes the legend Ted Danson, who, of course, sealed it all with his legendary charm as Michael. This cast wasn’t just good; it was flawless.

The concept of The Good Place itself was so wild and so ambitious. Only Schur can think of a sitcom about the afterlife and give it a hilarious touch. A sitcom where moral philosophy lessons are baked into the script? There was no chance of this concept failing. The twists always kept us on edge, and the jokes stayed sharp.

One of the best parts about the show is that even after running for four seasons, it never lost its soul. Instead, The Good Place showed us our flaws, our selfishness, and our messy attempts at being better people, and it told us, again and again, that trying matters more than perfection.

Losing The Good Place on Netflix hurts because it was one of those shows you could always return to. So yes, it’s leaving. And though it might stream somewhere else, there was something comforting about having The Good Place sitting there in your Netflix row, waiting for you like a frozen yoghurt shop that never closes.

But think of it as the ultimate Schur move. After all, it’s just him teaching us that nothing good lasts forever, and the best we can do is enjoy it while it’s here. Still… fork this shirt.