‘The Good Place’ Spoilers: Creator Michael Schur Reveals New Season 2 Details

Eleanor (Kristen Bell) and Chidi (William Jackson Harper) are going to meet again sooner rather than later in the upcoming Season 2 of “The Good Place.”

In a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, series creator Michael Schur revealed that Eleanor’s note to herself, which says “Eleanor, find Chidi,” at the end of Season 1 finale will ruin Michael’s (Ted Danson) plan to keep the pair apart for as long as possible. In fact, once Eleanor reunites with Chidi in the new season, Eleanor will waste no time in asking Michael about the mysterious message she left for herself.

“She has found Chidi because of the note and has some questions,” said Schur. “[But Michael] is trying to do his … thing and try to spin his way out of those questions.”

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Schur added that Eleanor’s clothes in Season 2 are “a little less basic than in the first season, which is a tiny bit of a clue.” There is also an alarming increase of clown decor in Eleanor’s house. “If you were Michael doing the end-of-the-year debrief about what worked and what didn’t, the clowns worked,” said Schur. “Eleanor hated the clowns, Chidi hated the clowns, everybody hated the clowns. So why not? Let’s beef up the clown volume.”

Following a keynote talk at Create & Cultivate’s pop-up program in Austin during SXSW last March, Bell told The Hollywood Reporter that viewers are going to see a “complete reset of Eleanor” in Season 2. Although the actress didn’t offer any plot details at the time, she said that the show’s sophomore run “will be fun and just as explosive” as Season 1. “It is crazy,” she added. “I just kept asking, ‘How are you even going to show that? How did you think of that?’ I’m so impressed with our writer’s room.”

While Michael will basically just continue torturing Eleanor, Chidi, Tahani (Jameela Jamil) and Jason/Jianyu (Manny Jacinto) in Season 2, Schur assured fans that the next season is going to be different from its freshman run. “[Michael is] going for a different thing now,” Schur told Entertainment Weekly last March. “He says … that the problem was that they all spent too much time together too quickly, so he’s going to spread them out, give them each a different soulmate, torture them individually for a while, and then slowly bring them together. … He can’t just torture them individually, because what’s the point? The fun of it — the game of it — is getting them to the point where they torture each other.”

“The Good Place” Season 2 will premiere on Thursday, Sept. 28 at 8:30 p.m. EDT on NBC.