Amazon Prime Video users have been lapping up Good Omens over the past couple of weeks, the apocalyptic comedy-drama which sees Michael Sheen’s Aziraphale the angel and David Tennant’s Crowley the demon team up to avert Armageddon. The six-part miniseries is surprisingly hilarious and feelgood for a show about the end of the world, but there is some real-world parallels that make it a little uncomfortable.
For showrunner Neil Gaiman, who also co-wrote the original novel with the late Sir Terry Pratchett, it’s ended up being exactly the right time for the long-gestating adaptation of the book to make it to the screen. Good Omens was penned back in 1990, in the aftermath of the end of the Cold War, but Gaiman admitted he didn’t need to change a thing about the TV version’s explanation for how the world ends.
“The peculiarity of making Good Omens now,...
For showrunner Neil Gaiman, who also co-wrote the original novel with the late Sir Terry Pratchett, it’s ended up being exactly the right time for the long-gestating adaptation of the book to make it to the screen. Good Omens was penned back in 1990, in the aftermath of the end of the Cold War, but Gaiman admitted he didn’t need to change a thing about the TV version’s explanation for how the world ends.
“The peculiarity of making Good Omens now,...
- 6/14/2019
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