I do not know "Durrells in Corfu" and keep thinking it is a reference to that Star Trek ep where the aliens speak in metaphor or something gibberish and is forever being quoted.

Initially I was mixing them up with that father-daughter country duo the Kendalls.

I am imagining Holt saying "Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra" and that would be very satisfying

This is what I mean when I tell people that I am nerd and geek tangential.

My mom loves Durrells in Corfu, and until now that was my one and only reference point for it.

Gerald Durrell wrote of his older brother Lawrence:

Larry was designed by Providence to go through life like a small, blond firework, exploding ideas in other people's minds, and then curling up with catlike unctuousness and refusing to take any blame for the consequences.

Two of the actual Durrells are authors (Lawrence and Gerald), including the one whose memoir is the basis for the show.

Wait, Lawrence Durrell, who wrote the Alexandria Quartet? I guess I know a Durrell from that side.

Wait, Lawrence Durrell, who wrote the Alexandria Quartet? I guess I know a Durrell from that side.

He is indeed one of the Durrells. However, the TV series owes more to the memoirs of his younger brother Gerald. When I was a kid, his memoir, My Family and Other Animals, was the funniest book I'd ever read. (Mostly thanks to Larry.)

Larry was designed by Providence to go through life like a small, blond firework, exploding ideas in other people's minds, and then curling up with catlike unctuousness and refusing to take any blame for the consequences.

Including having an incestuous relationship with his daughter (who hung herself) which isn't as cozy as Gerald's life.

Oh, eww.

So, The Good Place will end with the upcoming fourth season.

THR has a long interview with Mike Schur, here: [link]