Good Omens
- TV comedy drama
- Amazon Prime Video
- 2019 - 2023
- 12 episodes (2 series)
TV adaptation of Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's novel about an angel and demon who are working together to try to stop the world ending. Also features Michael Sheen, David Tennant, Sam Taylor Buck, Jack Whitehall, Adria Arjona and more.
- Due to return for Series 3
Streaming rank this week: 665
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Good Omens merchandise and exhibition revealed
The Radio 4 version of Good Omens is to be released on Vinyl. The news has been revealed as merchandise and a themed escape room linked to the TV version is announced too.
British Comedy Guide, 30th May 2019TV review: Good Omens
To give you some idea of how leisurely it all is, the fate of humanity is resolved near the beginning of the last episode, which leaves about 40 minutes of loose-end tying.
Nicholas Barber, BBC, 30th May 2019Good Omens review
God tells us that this story will end where it began, in the Garden of Eden. The prophecy might terrify if this trip to hell -- in a handbasket, no less -- wasn't such a slice of comedic heaven.
Lorraine Ali, LA Times, 30th May 2019Good Omens review
But as good as everything is, as good as everyone is, the locus of this translation's magic is the to-perish-for chemistry between Michael Sheen's angel Aziraphale and David Tennant's demon Crowley.
Amy Glynn, Paste Magazine, 30th May 2019Good Omens review
Sticking closely to its source material, Gaiman adapts his own property effortlessly in an appropriately meta and prophetic manner. Some casual viewers may find the depth and scope of the series slightly overwhelming, while some of the slightly dryer moments of humour may not be to everyone's tastes.
Ben Read, Hollywood News, 30th May 2019Good Omens is exhaustingly arch and terribly twee
Such archness. Such ostentatious charm and so-called wit. It made me feel like I wanted to suck the sugar from my teeth - and that's even before the children had appeared.
Rachel Cooke, The New Statesman, 30th May 2019Good Omens: Tennant & Sheen talk about the cost of fame
David Tennant talked about "losing a layer of skin" after reaching a level of fame. He spoke at a press event ahead of the launch of the adaptation of Terry Pratchett's novel Good Omens. David's Good Omens co-star Michael Sheen also shared a piece of advice he was told by Richard Harris, who played the original Dumbledore, when he first got into acting.
BBC, 29th May 2019Seat reserved for Terry Pratchett at world premiere
There was an empty seat in the front row when Good Omens had its world premiere in London on Tuesday. But that's not because organisers had trouble filling the gigantic (and newly reopened) Odeon in Leicester Square - quite the opposite, the event was packed out. In fact, a seat was deliberately kept vacant for Terry Pratchett, the co-writer of the original novel, who died in 2015.
BBC, 29th May 2019Good Omens review
Somewhere inside of Amazon's Good Omens lurks a delightful movie -- or at the very least, a decent one. You glimpse the outline of it by the middle of the third hour, about halfway through the six-episode run. That is the point at which it may occur to you that there's about 50% too much content distracting from the core strength of Neil Gaiman's latest series.
Melanie McFarland, Salon, 28th May 2019Neil Gaiman interview
Before Terry Pratchett died, Gaiman told his friend he would adapt their novel about an angel and a devil stopping the apocalypse. As Good Omens starts on TV, he discusses fame, politics and honouring that promise.
Lidija Haas, The Guardian, 24th May 2019