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    Relax, benches. Creator Mike Schur knows you want 'The Good Place' to stick the landing

    by Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times Sep 30, 2019 8 minutes

    As the creator of "The Good Place," Michael Schur has spent years honing the art of brain teasers on morality and mortality. That may explain why death creeps into some of his thoughts on television.

    It comes up when he's talking about the paralyzing volume of TV: "We're all going to die with thousands of hours of unwatched television on our DVRs."

    Or in trying to crystallize the fear of missing out that's piqued by really good TV: "I met ('Breaking Bad' creator) Vince Gilligan for the first time between that show's split final season. And I told him a true fact: When I was 24 and ("Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace") was about to come out, I had a thought all the time, which was, 'Please don't die, just please don't die.' Because it would be so sad if I got hit by car in May of 1999 and the last thought that went through my head was like, 'I don't know what happens.' ...

    "And I had that feeling again in the time between the last two 'Breaking Bad' seasons. It's the most potent feeling a consumer of entertainment can have: 'Please don't die before this comes out.' ... I had it most palpably with 'Breaking Bad.' But I had it with 'Lost'; I definitely had it with 'The Sopranos.'

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