Good Omens

Even though this is a single movie length episode it does clearly follow on from the previous TV shows so in common with everyone else I’ll refer to this as season 3.

The show runners clearly wanted to bring everything to an actual rather than just dropping everything Neil Gaiman related like they did with “Dead Boy Detectives”.

I’m a bit conflicted myself, “Neverwhere” is still one of my favourite books and “Stardust” one of my favourite films but is it still OK to enjoy those?

Anyway, with this long episode they did indeed bring things to a very neat close by virtually doing away with all “supernatural” elements to the universe and leaving one built purely on rationality but still with human frailties and foibles. So yes, as the Ars Technica review had it, they did indeed “stick the landing” but on the way they forgot to make it funny, or even particularly interesting. It was a nice touch that Sandalphon recognised his own role as “useful idiot” and the final scene was quite sweet but overall I have to say this was a disappointment.

It has to be watched by those of us that saw the first two seasons just to get that closure but it is not a great 90 minutes of your life. Watch when you are tired and there’s nothing else you could usefully be doing!