I thought it ended about as well as it could, given that they really had nowhere else to go w/the story, apparently. And I liked the extended interview w/the cast afterward. That was nice, and gave some additional closure.

I thought the series went off the rails a few episodes ago, first w/all the "reboots"; and later, when the guys running heaven and hell were shown to be so incompetent/non-omniscient that they hadn't even realized humans were being judged unfairly all this time. Really stretches credibility. But it was the only way to get to a resolution and a more or less happy ending, once they painted themselves into that plot corner.

In the end, the overall moral of the whole show is probably that life's brevity--and the periodic contrasts between happiness and sadness--is what makes it worthwhile; and if we get eternal life in the good place, it gets so boring that people just want to move on into oblivion, or at least uncertainty. It's just a restatement of Goethe's famous quote: “Nothing is harder to bear than a succession of fair days.”

But I think there may be a flaw in that reasoning when applied to the good place. If they can do pretty much anything there, then they theoretically should be able to make themselves not feel boredom. So, again, apparently a rather imperfect design for the good place. But I'm glad it's over, as it was getting rather repetitive and tiresome by late last season, what with the zillions of reboots.