The Good Place is known for its wild plot twists, but we can expect that the third season will begin where the second season left off. This deal isn't another trick or simulation — the original four humans are really back on Earth. In an interview with Rolling Stone, executive producer Michael Schur commented, "Normally I don't like to just flatly state what's going on, but here I don't see the benefit of people experiencing ambiguity: The four of them are straight-up back on Earth, in a new timeline where they didn't die."
No worries, though. According to Schur, we'll still see quirky after-life magic on the show.