Timeline

The following is a work-in-progress timeline of events pertaining to The Good Place and its characters.

Earth

Date	Event
The Beginning of Time	Judge Gen (Gen being short for Hydrogen, the only element in existence when she is born), comes into existence. The Makers of Light, Darkness and Everything create The Good Place, The Bad Place and Earth.
0000	Michael is born.
201,993 BC	Og gives his rock to Grog. Grog consequentially smashes Og's head with the rock. Og goes to The Good Place.
2491 BC	Paltibaal succumbs to an infection from a cut on his hand. He is sent to the Good Place.
347 BC	Plato dies of unknown reasons and is sent to the Bad Place for endorsing slavery.
322 BC	Aristotle dies of natural causes and is sent to the Bad Place for endorsing slavery.
c. 350-370	Hypatia of Alexandria is born.
415	Hypatia is beaten to death and sent to the Good Place.
1497	Someone is admitted to the Good Place.
October 14, 1972	Doug Forcett, on a mushroom high, predicts how the Afterlife works with 92% accuracy.
October 14, 1982	Eleanor Shellstrop is born in Phoenix, AZ to Donna and Doug Shellstrop.
c. 1982-1983	Chidi Anagonye is born in Nigeria to Emeka and Ndeye Anagonye.
1987	Mindy St. Claire is electrocuted and sent to the Bad Place. After much negotiation with Good Place representatives, however, she is relocated to the Medium Place.
1989	Jason Mendoza is born in Jacksonville, FL to Doug Mendoza and a Floridian pet store employee.
c. 2016	Eleanor Shellstrop is killed when she is run over by a truck advertising erectile dysfunction pills after being pushed into the street by a set of shopping carts. Chidi Anagonye is crushed by a falling air conditioner while struggling to decide what bar to go to. Jason Mendoza is suffocated after being locked inside a safe during a robbery gone wrong. Tahani Al-Jamil is crushed by a statue of her sister, Kamilah, after angrily attempting to pull it off of a ledge during said sister's celebration party. Neighborhood 12358W is created as the foundation for Michael's first experiment ("The Good Place: A Bold New Plan"); not wanting to do a paint-by-numbers neighborhood he instead pitches to his bosses his own version: a neighborhood where the inhabitants think they are in The Good Place. His bosses, including Shawn, agree but state that if it doesn't work, Michael will face retirement. He selects Eleanor, Chidi, Jason and Tahani as the humans for this new neighborhood, his intention being that their clashing personalities, and stresses caused by their situation will result in them torturing each other in various ways for a millennium without them realizing the true nature of the situation. The remaining 318 residents are demons under Michael's command playing the part of humans in paradise with Michael posing as a Good Place architect. By necessity, a Good Place Janet is required for the neighborhood's operation. As per her programming, she is genuinely helpful and not part of the ruse. The neighbourhood experiment begins. When terrible catastrophes occur, Michael pretends to have no idea what is causing them and scrambles to solve the problem, enlisting Eleanor to help. At some point he kicks a small cute dog towards the sun. He pretends to come to the conclusion that he is the problem and prepare to leave for retirement; upon hearing what retirement means, Eleanor feels immense guilt and confesses that she is what’s causing the problems, and that she doesn't belong here, something Michael does not expect. Michael contacts the demon Trevor, supposedly so Eleanor can be brought to the Bad Place. When Trevor arrives, Chidi pleads with Michael so that Eleanor can stay. Michael refuses to let Eleanor leave with Trevor, so he decides to bring in Shawn, who pretends to be another Immortal Being acting as a Judge to settle disputes between The Good and Bad Place. After Shawn arrives, Eleanor steals his train and leaves for The Medium Place with Jason and Janet. Michael, along with Chidi and Tahani, pleads their case as to why Eleanor should stay in The Good Place; unfortunately, Shawn rules that despite the good she has done and how much she has changed, it doesn't change the fact that she was a bad person in life. Shawn sets a deadline for Eleanor to return, or Chidi and Tahani will go to The Bad Place in her and Jason's stead. Eleanor and Jason return but miss the deadline by a few minutes. Shawn states that The Bad Place is owed two people and gives Eleanor, Chidi, Jason, and Tahani thirty minutes to decide which two should be sent to The Bad Place. After they argue among themselves, Eleanor comes to the realization that they are already in The Bad Place. Michael confesses that Eleanor is right and the whole thing was a trick to get Eleanor, Chidi, Jason, and Tahani to torture each other. After getting permission from Shawn to try again, he wipes their minds and starts the whole thing over again, but not before Eleanor writes down a note: "FIND CHIDI", and stuffs it inside Janet's mouth.
c. 2016-2018 (alternate timeline)	Michael goes to Earth and saves the lives of the four humans, therefore starting up a new timeline. The humans each improve before being tempted back to their old ways, showing that the experiment, initially, fails. Michael urges the humans to find each other so that their bond will become unbreakable. Although this technically is tainting the results, Michael is confident that their improvement is based on their bond, and that the fact that they don't know anything about the afterlife will make up for their unity. The group form to study the effects of near-death experiments on ethics, with the addition of Simone, who would monitor the brain scans. Trevor joins the study group to try and split the humans apart. Michael and Janet show up to stop him. Trevor tries to annoy Eleanor into leaving, convince Jason and Tahani to sleep together so that Tahani will leave, and trick Chidi into worrying about the ethics of fraternizing with the subjects of his study. Michael and Janet are able to stop Trevor from doing any more damage, and the group is able to heal itself on its own (Jason calls a cab for Tahani to take her home, and Chidi goes to convince Eleanor to stay, thereby proving that he is friends with her). Though the results are tainted, the study seems ready to continue. At this point, Michael and Janet's activities on Earth are discovered by Gen, so they flee the Afterlife to monitor the humans' progress on Earth. Michael and Janet remain on Earth to remove any obstacle that can possibly prevent the group from improving. To prevent Jason and Tahani from sleeping together, they set Tahani up with her ex-boyfriend, Larry Hemsworth. Tahani and Larry get engaged and decide to move back to London, so Michael and Janet infiltrate the party and convince Eleanor to ask the other members of the study to stay as a group in Australia. When they don't reciprocate her desire, she lashes out and destroys the engagement cake. Simone explains that she is feeling the loss of her first real group, and Eleanor apologizes to the other three. They go to get more champagne, and discover Michael and Janet discussing the nature of the Afterlife in front of the Door, which is open. Michael explains the Afterlife system, thereby preventing the humans from earning points and effectively ending the experiment. The humans come to terms with their fate and decide to help others get into The Good Place. Chidi breaks up with Simone so that he doesn't have to lie to her and Michael, Tahani and Jason help Pillboi by instructing him to remain at his job at the Old Folks' Home and do as much good for him as they can under the guise of "secret astronaut spies". Tahani fixes her relationship with Kamilah while Eleanor does the same with her mother. Michael proves to Eleanor that there is free will using memories from the Afterlife and iced tea, and eventually decides that they need to use a blueprint for how to live a good life. Michael and Janet visit Doug Forcett and realize that he's become a happiness pump, so that he is miserable in his pursuit to improve the common good. They then return to the bar, which demons have infiltrated, and escape with the humans to Janet's void, leaving Earth.
c. 2017	After rebooting his neighborhood and erasing the minds of Eleanor, Chidi, Jason, and Tahani, Michael tries again, but Eleanor figures out on the first night that she is in The Bad Place. Michael erases their minds again and reboots his plan a third time, lying to his boss Shawn that he is still on attempt number two. Eventually, Eleanor once again figures it out, forcing Michael to erase and reboot. He does this over 800 times across 300 afterlife years until eventually the other demons involved in his plan get sick of it and, led by Vicky, blackmail him into letting them take control of his neighborhood. After Vicky's coup, Michael joins up with Eleanor, Chidi, Jason, Tahani, and Janet, promising them that in exchange for not erasing their minds and rebooting one more time so that Vicky can take over, he will help them get into the actual Good Place so that he can avoid retirement. He begins to learn about ethics, taught by Chidi. It is difficult for him to understand the concepts, owing to the fact that he is an immortal being whose only purpose is to torture humans. Chidi tries to help him understand, asking him if he can die. He says he can "die" under rare circumstances. He is then told to contemplate the possibility of nonexistence, but this backfires, and Michael gets a severe case of depression, followed by a midlife crisis, which nearly blows the group's cover till he is calmed down. He eventually gets better at his ethics lessons and but still mocks them occasionally. He confides to Eleanor that he finds it hard and wonders how she was able to improve so much. Eleanor states that when whenever she did a bad thing, she’d hear a little voice telling her it was wrong. When she would do good, it would go away, and she would feel better. Michael takes comfort in this. Later, Shawn finds Michael's record of events that happened in his neighborhood. Michael had actually made up all of the events, which Shawn did not know. They destroy the neighborhood, and Michael roasts Chidi, Eleanor, Tahani and Jason. But, Michael hides some clues in the roasts which helps the four come up with a plan to not get caught. They also throw a party, and during this party, Michael frames Vicky. Shawn then encases her in a cocoon. Eleanor, Chidi, Tahani, and Jason escape by hiding under a train. He also admits that he was worried about the group because they’re his friends which is a new feeling for him. Afterward, Michael creates a hot-air balloon to take them to The Good Place, but then after several failed takeoffs, he reveals that this is a fake. In truth, Michael knows no way to get in. He lied when he said he could do it but believed he could find a way. This failure and lie are causing him guilt for the first time. He says that the only way to get into The Good Place is to go to the judge, who lives in a portal in the middle of The Bad Place. Then, the individual must convince the judge to get them to The Good Place. Then, Michael takes a train to get them to The Bad Place and to the portal. The five come up with a plan to disguise themselves and get to the portal while Michael gets special pins to get them into the portal with Janet. But they get caught, and they trie to escape. Tahani, Chidi, and Jason are able to get into the portal; Eleanor was not, as Michael had failed to retrieve the fourth pin. After that, Michael sacrifices himself to get Eleanor to the judge. He gives her his pin and says that he has finally solved the trolley problem. He says that the answer is to sacrifice himself. Shawn then catches him. Gen is at first startled by the unexpected appearance of the humans in her dimension after they escape The Bad Place. She is at first conflicted about giving them a case, but she gives them a case because she is bored. Gen gives each of the humans trials, which all of them fail except possibly Eleanor, and judge that they should go to The Bad Place. Meanwhile, Shawn scolds Michael and then sentences him to eternal damnation. Bad Janet then shows Michael Good Janet as a marble. Michael's punishment is to be in an unmarked room with only New Yorker magazines for entertainment. Then, Bad Janet reveals herself to be Good Janet in disguise. The two of them escape and meet up with Eleanor, Tahani, Chidi, and Jason in the portal with the judge. They inform her of the nature of their experiment. Gen then comes to an agreement with Michael and then gives him permission to only go down to Earth once and that was to save the Four Humans. Gen also allows Michael and Janet to stay in her realm and monitor the humans.
c. 2018	After being taken into The Void, becoming the first humans ever not to immediately enter the Good or Bad Place, Michael, Janet, and the humans investigate the Accounting Department, where they learn that no one has gotten into The Good Place in 521 years. Michael steals The Book of Dougs (a book with information on all Dougs who have ever existed) from the Accounting Department, and realizes that the complexity and interconnectedness of modern human life is inhibiting humans from achieving good point totals. He realizes that the reason the humans were able to improve in his Neighborhood was that the Neighborhood was devoid of the complexities of modern life. Michael arranges for a meeting with the Judge at IHOP to plead his case. They arrive at IHOP, where Michael presents his revelations to the Judge, who is not impressed. Jason then inspires Michael to suggest to the Judge that she visit Earth to see for herself how complex it was. She does, and when she returned she realizes how modern life had made being a good person all the more complex. She summons Shawn to represent The Bad Place, and Shawn argues that Michael's experiment had been a fluke. Amid the debate, Chidi comes up with a revelation about how to improve the Afterlife, and falls through a Pancake, wherein he sees the Time-Knife–he suggests that they use data collection methods to create a new Neighborhood with four new human residents and track their point totals to see if they improve. Shawn, Gen, and Michael agree, and Eleanor suggests that the experiment take place in The Medium Place. Gen lais out five conditions for the new Neighborhood. Michael and Shawn each have objections, so Gen assumes that it is fair: "MICHAEL WILL DESIGN THE NEIGHBORHOOD.", "BAD PLACE WILL CHOOSE THE SUBJECTS (SIMILAR LEVEL OF BADNESS).", "NO REBOOTS.", "MICHAEL GETS 5 MINUTES OF PREP TIME FOR EACH NEW SUBJECT." and "NEIGHBORHOOD CAN BE ADJUSTED."
c. 2019	The Neighborhood for the experiment is created by Janet and Michael in The Medium Place. The other nonhuman residents are created by Janet and Derek. The Bad Place sends the file of Subject One (John) to Michael. John wakes up, but Michael began to panic after being overwhelmed by the implications of his failure, so Eleanor assumes the role of "Architect." Eleanor, posing as the Architect, welcoms John to the Neighborhood, whereupon Tahani realizes that The Bad Place has sent humans tailored to each individual human so that they will fail to be able to improve them (John having been a gossip columnist who published articles about Tahani). The Bad Place sends the next file, and it is Simone. The humans, Michael and Janet call Shawn and the Judge, who rules that it was not against the rules, but that Michael can erase Simone's memories of ever meeting the four humans. Chidi, unable to cope with helping Simone and not slipping up while dating Eleanor, suggests that his memories be erased as well. They are, and Eleanor welcomes him into the Neighborhood. Eleanor welcoms Chidi, Brent and Linda into the Neighborhood. Simone becomes convinced that the entire Neighborhood is a hallucination concocted by her dying brain. After Eleanor and Michael attempt to get Linda to open up on Flying Day, she reveals herself to be Chris Baker, and Gen ruled that, as punishment, Chidi will be the fourth subject. The Bad Place send a train to pick up Chris and has Bad Janet marbleize Janet and switch places with her. To make Brent realize he doesn't belong in The Good Place, Eleanor creates a talkshow called That Was Your Life where other residents share about their lives and attempt to create a chaos sequence, which only causes Brent to believe that he belongs in the imaginary Best Place. Eleanor and Michael later tell Brent that there is a Best Place for an elite selection of the most morally upstanding residents, in the hopes that Brent will begin doing good out of habit. Eleanor tells Chidi that he and Simone are soulmates, so Chidi explains to Simone the concept of solipsism, and that it leads to one "generally acting like a jerk", persuading Simone to stop acting like nothing is real. Eleanor realizes that Chidi is relaxed and unable to help the other residents, some of whom are participating in his new ethical study group (including Brent, who repeatedly made comments about going to Princeton and then left), because he isn't burdened. To remedy this, she introduces Jason to him and has Jason confess to not belonging there, and creating a sequence of tortures for Chidi. After Chidi tells Eleanor and Michael that he feels as though he's being "punished", Eleanor realizes she's been going too hard on him because she was mad at him for erasing his memory. Chidi eventually resolves to help Jason. Meanwhile, Tahani realizes that John feels left out of the celebrity lifestyle and attempts to welcome him into it, but after that proves unsuccessful, tells John about how she once went into a party VIP lounge with nobody in there just to prove that she was high-status enough to be there, and John apologizes for how his articles hurt her. Tahani later explains that while he won't join the study group, they will be unironically watching Britney Spears' movie "Crossroads". After a series of unsuccessful attempts to improve the humans, Glenn shows up in the neighborhood and claims that Michael was switched with Vicky in the Michael Suit. Michael refuses to take off his skin suit because he's self conscious of his true form, so Bad Janet creates a "demon lie-detector" which really explodes demons at whom it is pointed, and Eleanor accidentally explodes Glenn. Unable to prove that he is real, Michael attempts to explode himself, but Jason stops him and slaps Mindy's sex-toy handcuffs on Bad Janet, revealing her true form and intoxicating her, having figured it out after she didn't reply "not a girl" when Jason called her "girl". Jason and Michael venture to The Bad Place to rescue Janet while Eleanor and Tahani remain behind to run the neighborhood. In the bad place, Vicky (in a Michael suit) is torturing good Janet by discussing actions while Demon Con starts up. During Demon Con Shawn suggested that Jason (who Shawn thought was Glenn in a Jason suit) should torture good Janet, and to get good Janet out from the Bad Place, Michael asks for extra "torture time" but instead to get Janet out of the Bad Place. Michael then explains how torture is wrong and how humans can get better, and as Rufus tries to get Janet back, Michael uses a Demon Exploder that Jason had the whole time to explode Rufus and then Vicky, allowing Janet, Jason and Michael to make a clean getaway out of the Bad Place. Michael goes into Janet's void, where the Bad Janet who was sent to sabotage the experiment has been imprisoned. He tells her a recent story that happened in the neighborhood. Bad Janet only rolls her eyes at him and farts in his face, but Michael won't let that deter him. Meanwhile, Chidi and Jason dance and are discovered by John, who is shocked to find that "Jianyu" is not who he says he is. Despite wanting to gossip about this, John vows that he won't say anything to implicate Jason as not belonging in "the Good Place".Brent writes a novel called Six Feet Under Par. The other eight, Eleanor, Chidi, Tahani, Jason, Michael, Janet, John and Simone, all think the book is rude, racist and sexist. Chidi attempts to summon a philosophical book from his apartment to discuss it, but the book hits Brent in the head when flying through the air. Brent accuses Chidi of attacking him, and shoves him, which results in Chidi punching Brent across the face. On the last day of the year-long experiment, Simone comes close to deducing the true nature of the neighborhood as an experimental environment in which she and her acquaintances are being studied. Everyone reveals their secrets: Jason's identity, Brent's "Best Place" objective, and Chidi having been told Simone is his soulmate. Simone and Chidi discover the scoreboard identifying them, Brent, and John as test subjects. In a last-ditch effort to earn the humans points, Michael allows Brent to fall into a sinkhole, hoping the other three will unite and rescue him despite his flaws. However, only Chidi attempts to save Brent; John and Simone decide Brent isn't worth saving, and flee the neighborhood. Chidi declares that he believes that they are in the Bad Place; in a final gamble to shock Brent into re-evaluating himself, Eleanor and Michael "admit" this is true, and inform them they will now be transferred to the "real" Bad Place. Brent still cannot accept that he is not a good person, but just as the experiment ends, he begins to apologize to Chidi.
c. 2020	While Michael attends the Judge's ruling on his third experiment, along with Shawn and the Good Place Committee, the humans and Janet (who were not permitted to attend) decide to take their minds off the stress by throwing themselves mock funerals and commemorate each other and their friendship. The review of the experiment results begins. Simone, John, and Chidi all became better people during the experiment, but Brent actually became worse over the last year. Michael nonetheless argues that Brent had redeemed himself from a much lower score with his last-minute apology to Chidi, showing that he wasn't completely beyond redemption. He also pulls up the scores of Kamilah, Donna, and Pillboi, who all improved their lives drastically after the Soul Squad's intervention. After a brief deliberation, the humans and Janet are brought into the courtroom as the Judge announces her verdict. She has decided the Soul Squad is right and declares the experiment a success. While everyone (except Shawn) is initially delighted, they are all horrified when the Judge declares that Earth is cancelled and will restart existence, wiping out all humans, alive and dead, in the process. Michael tries to get her to consider another option, Shawn refuses to help rather than admit defeat, and the Good Place Committee is as ineffectual as ever. Before the Judge can activate the device that will reboot existence, Janet steals it and hides it in her void. Gen tries to steal it back, but can't find it. It's been taken by the newly reformed Bad Janet, who had read through Michael's manifesto and came to agree with the Soul Squad that the points system is irrevocably flawed even though she still doesn't have a high opinion of humans in general. She reveals she's passed the manifesto to all the other Janets in the afterlife, and a stream of Good, Bad, Neutral, and Disco Janets enter the courtroom, ready to help hide the device in their voids. Gen coldly declares she will get the device back and marbleize every Janet in the room. With Gen distracted, Eleanor tells Michael to restore Chidi's memories, figuring he is the only person who can come up with a solution. Michael "resets" Chidi with a snap, causing Chidi to instantaneously re-experience his memories: During his childhood, his arguing parents reconcile after he lectures them against divorce; he becomes convinced that every question has a single correct answer, causing him to develop his indecisiveness. In adulthood, his girlfriend Alessandra breaks up with him over this obsession, and thesis advisers drop him over his lack of emotional perspective and inability to address a single meaningful question. In the afterlife, he asks his friends about their motivations: Jason acts on what he thinks is important, Tahani's confidence comes only after learning through failure, and Eleanor rejects rules if she thinks they are wrong. Just before wiping Chidi's memory, Michael admits he used the "soulmate" concept to torture Chidi, but true soulmates are people who choose to do the work of maintaining a relationship. Chidi writes something on a piece of paper, and gives it to Janet for safekeeping. When he wakes and learns of the situation, he is at peace with the idea that many answers or no answers may exist. He retrieves his note from Janet and opens it, it reads: "There is no 'answer.' But Eleanor is the answer." Judge Gen is all set to reboot the Earth and all humanity, but needs a remote control to do it, and it is hidden inside one of many Janets; the Janet we know delays the Judge long enough for Michael and the others to come up with an alternative. Chidi and Eleanor come up with one: the current system results in an eternity of cruel punishment for any failures, which doesn't match the life someone lived. There should be a Bad Place for the truly bad, a Good Place for the truly good, and a Medium Place for the majority of humanity who are neither. They propose it to the Good Place Committee, who agree to it instantly without even hearing it. But Shawn won't go for it. They up the offer: in exchange for the Medium Place solution, the original four humans volunteer for eternal punishment. For Shawn, that's still not good enough. They get Judge Gen's attention and make a different proposal. In the current system, people get one shot at life, get evaluated, and get a final destiny. But in Michael's "Good Place", the four humans had hundreds of "lives", and through them got better and better. They propose that the life humans have an Earth be considered not the test of one's ultimate destiny, but just a starting class in ethics. Then, at death, all humans will go through a test, a simulated environment like Michael's Neighborhood, set up by two architects, one from the Good Place and one from the Bad Place; they will make a scenario which exposes the person's moral shortcomings. But there will be multiple rounds through these Neighborhoods: in each "life," most people will get better. There will be some won't, but many will improve and get into the Good Place. Judge Gen is willing to go with this if Shawn is. Shawn takes some convincing, but he has already indicated that the current system is bad, and the chance to have more time fighting Michael wins him over.
c. 2020	In the Bad Place, Michael, the others, and Shawn introduce the new system to a group of demon architects, they need to devise tests to evaluate humans, and they are used to devising tortures for them. With Tahani as a test subject, and files of her history, they try to make test scenarios to see if she makes ethical decisions, but they never get the idea until Vicky, who wasn't invited, walks in and effectively takes over as teacher. It turns out, despite her past with Michael, she has really gotten the point of the new system, and easily makes a scenario that tests Tahani, then proceeds to teach the process to the other demons; she's really capable of taking over the whole evaluation program. Michael spends a while dismissing her efforts, but later admits to Janet that it was mostly because if Vicky takes over, he doesn't know what else he could do. Eventually he allows Vicky full creative control of the project, and does so in a way that lets the other demons think she "took control" away from the "traitor" Michael. As the demons are involved with this, Chidi, Eleanor, and Jason are busy in the Bad Place records; they need to identify the first thousand humans to be tested, so they go through the files on everyone. This means the files on Eleanor and Chidi are there to be read, causing both of them to worry how they might look to the other. In time they both settle down to recognizing how much they love each other, and how the past of neither one would change that. There is now a "New Afterlife Architect Training School", a place that looks like Michael's Neighborhood; there are architects from both the Good Place and the Bad Place streaming from the train station, with Vicky in charge getting them all sent to their correct classes. Michael, Janet, and the humans can just look on with approval, and Eleanor says the first batch of test neighborhoods are up and running. Then they hear the sound that the system makes when someone passes the test for the Good Place; they wonder who passed, and Michael says it's the four of them, the Judge decided that they don't need to take any test. A balloon settles down to land, and the four humans get in. Michael and Janet join them, Michael saying that, since he's unemployed, he'll travel for a bit. The balloon takes off, as the architects on the ground wave goodbye.
	Michael is given a nice robe and medal by the Committee, and they have him sign a big scroll that makes him an architect. As soon as it is signed, the Committee members scoop it up and dash out of the room, saying that Michael's now officially in charge of the Good Place, they all quit effective immediately, and it's all his problem now. Michael wanders around in confusion, looking for the other architects, but only finds empty offices and lists of possible solutions to improve the Good Place (music you can eat, giant mini doughnuts, bigger horns on the unicorns, and waiting for Beyonce to die so she can fix things).
	Hypatia of Alexandria tells Eleanor and Chidi that an eternal existence of happiness makes your become a meaningless happiness zombie, and that during her happiness brain dead state all she does is drink milkshakes, slowly urinate into her trousers (which evaporates instantly) and has random orgasms. When she informs the soul squad of this, Michael creates the Last Door, which will officially end the individual's afterlife who uses it. Once Hypatia learns of this, knowing that she can one day have a final death, her brain begins to return to normal, and she states that she may stay in The Good Place for a little while longer.
Uncertain future	Numerous characters pass the Test and are admitted to the Good Place, most notably Kamilah Al-Jamil, Steven Peleaz, Doug Forcett, Waqas Al-Jamil, Manisha Al-Jamil, Doug Mendoza, Donna Shellstrop, Ndeye Anagonye, Simone Garnett, John Wheaton, Alexander the Great, Todd May, Pamela Hieronymi, Uzo, Roberto Clemente, Zora Neale Hurston, St. Thomas Aquinas, Hazrat Bibi Rabia Basri, Clara Peller, William Shakespeare, Madison, and Brittany.
	William Shakespeare authors approximately four thousand plays post-mortem, including The Tempest 2: Here We Blow Again.
	William Shakespeare walks through the Last Door.
	The new system is working; Michael and Janet have regular meetings with the Judge, Shawn, and the accountants on how things are going, and while there are some bumps in the road, millions of humans are being properly sent to their appropriate destinies. And those in the Good Place are making the choice to leave once they are ready. The first of the Soul Squad humans to feel ready is Jason. He's won a perfect game in Madden NFL, after hundreds of tries, and he's reached the end of his goals in the afterlife. He tells his friends, and throws a big party, with everyone Jason knew in life who are now in the afterlife, including Donkey Doug, Pillboi, and the members of Jason's dance group, in attendance. It's a wild, joyful party full of music and dancing, Jason describing his feelings of contentment to Chidi and Eleanor. The next day, Jason and Janet walk in the woods to the Last Door. He had made a necklace for her, so she won't forget him, but he can't find it. Janet reassures him that with the way she experiences time, she'll never forget him or feel like he's left her. She says goodbye to him before walking off to let Jason gather his last thoughts and go through the Last Door when he's ready. Tahani meanwhile has been spending her afterlife mastering every practical skill she can think of, from carpentry to cooking and baking, engineering, and other kinds of DIY skills. She has also made peace with her parents (who feel immense guilt at how they had treated their daughters) and Kamilah, finally gaining the happy family she's always wanted. She feels complete, and calls her friends in for a last get-together. As the festivities go on, however, Tahani realizes that going through the door would be a waste of all the knowledge she's gained and decides to apply it all towards to becoming an Architect like Michael. He leads her through the Hub to the Architect Design centre, where they meet up with Glenn (who has since reformed himself after getting exploded to goo) and the Good Place architect Beadie to begin her apprenticeship. Chidi and Eleanor have been happily going through the works of famous philosophers and hanging out with their friends and family members who've made it to the Good Place. Eleanor quickly suspects that Chidi is ready to go and is determined to keep him staying with her. She takes him on a whirlwind tour of Athens and Paris, which were important places in his life. However, Chidi admits he'd already reached that feeling of satisfaction a long time ago when he saw that Eleanor and her mother finally truly made peace with one another, but continued staying because he knew Eleanor wouldn't accept it. Realizing it would be selfish of her to force him to stay when he's ready to pass over, Eleanor tearfully lets Chidi go. On their last night together, Chidi reassures Eleanor that he'll always be with her in a way and promises to leave before she wakes up the next morning. When the next morning comes, Eleanor wakes up alone in bed with a final parting gift from Chidi. Janet takes Chidi to the Last Door, where the two of them share a goodbye hug before he walks through. Just after Chidi goes through the door, Jason pops out from behind a tree. He had eventually found the necklace he had meant to give Janet, and couldn't bear to leave until he gave it to her so he quietly and patiently waited in the forest until Janet returned, living a monk-like existence. He gives her the necklace (a heart-shaped pendant with the words "J+J" engraved into it), says a final goodbye to her, and chases after Chidi to join him on the other side of the door. Eleanor, upon rewatching the video of herself and Chidi confessing their love for each other, realizes that Mindy isn't getting the chance to be re-evaluated by the new system. She goes to the Medium Place, meeting with Derek who has been rebooted over 150 million times. Eleanor argues that Mindy owes it to herself to shoot for something better than eternal mediocrity but Mindy is reluctant to be evaluated by some stranger. Eleanor takes her to the Architect center where Tahani is, and Mindy accepts being evaluated by Tahani once she's finished her apprenticeship. Eleanor feels ready to leave but Michael also wants to go through the door, as he feels he's accomplished everything and no longer knows what to do anymore now that the Judge has stopped the meetings due to how well the new system works. But as the Last Door wasn't made for him, Eleanor gets an idea. She gets Gen to agree to let Michael go to Earth and live as a human being. Michael is turned into a human and says goodbye to Janet, promising her that they'll see each other again. In his new human life, Michael makes friends, makes mistakes (and learns from them), and experiences new things. Feeling whole and complete, Eleanor shares a last margarita and chat with Janet before she goes through the Last Door. Her soul is scattered into the fabric of the cosmos as thousands of little sparks of light. One spark goes to Earth, touching the soul of a man getting his mail at his apartment. He's about to throw away something that was wrongly delivered to him, but Eleanor's soul fragment inspires him to deliver it to the proper address instead. It's addressed to Michael, who is giddy upon seeing the grocery store rewards card he'd applied for has come. Michael thanks his neighbor and tells him to "take it sleazy".

Afterlife

Date	Event
	Janets come into existence.
	Tuesdays
	July
	The moment when nothing never occurs
	Janet 12358W marries Jason Mendoza.