But the expectation-subverting show that loves to shift paradigms has pivoted in another significant way.
Most recently, the Soul Squad prepared to prove Michaels humans-can-evolve theory with a fate-deciding experiment.
And it involved a simple word:Try.
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That was my hope.
And that didnt mean Do this and not that.
It meant Heres what a good person looked like in the world.
Heres how a person can feel like he or she led a good life.
At the end of the day, that objective kind of shifted a little bit.
The important thing was that youre trying.
Schur indicated that said effort seemed to be in short supply among us in these complicated, fractured times.
And trying means failing.
Everybody fails all the time; even people with the best of intentions will fail.
It doesnt matter whether you follow this theory or that theory, or this belief or whatever.
Youre going to fail a lot.
We all fail all the time at this.
So… at the beginning I pitched what it means to be a good person.
And as long as youre trying, youre on the right path.
Im grateful that it ended with as much integrity as it started with, he summed up.
For a first look at the 14-episode final season, divine your way over here.
