Good Omens is a show on Prime Video based on the novel by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman entitled Good Omens The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnus Nutter. Season one premiered in 2019 to much renown and fan worship. But its impressive that the show was created at all due to Neil Gaimans stalwart attitude that he and Terry Pratchett would work on their Good Omens project together or not at all.
And ever since Pratchetts tragic death in 2015 Gaiman has had to journey this project as its sole progenitor. But with another co-writer Gaiman said this about his crew I am so happy to be back here on the streets of Soho watching every day the glorious performances of Michael Sheen and David Tennant. I miss having Terry Pratchetts genius but it does feel like we are still all walking around inside his head. Its been an absolute pleasure to have the brilliant John Finnemore co-write this seasons story shenanigans with me and to work with director and my co-showrunner Douglas Mackinnon as he steers the ship along with our astonishing crew who have returned to do it again.
The series was always surrounded by magic though. It began with a famous story of Pratchett writing a letter to Gaiman while they were both working on adapting it as a screenplay. Knowing the end was near Pratchett instructed the letter to be mailed to Gaiman after his death and beseeched him to continue working on Good Omens even though he was no longer around. And thankfully Gaiman granted his wish. Now the esteemed author has returned for another bite at the proverbial apple to make season two.
Season 2 The Plot
Good Omens Season 2 from Prime Video Amazon Studios and BBC Studios Neil Gaiman has said that this series is not entirely based on the novel or rather the novel alone. Gaiman and Pratchett had once mused upon making a sequel to their collaborative work. Its 31 years since Good Omens was published which means its 32 years since Terry Pratchett and I lay in our respective beds in a Seattle hotel room at a World Fantasy Convention and plotted the sequel said Gaiman to TVLine.
They had quite a funny title for the book -- 668 The Neighbour of the Beast. Gaiman continued I got to use bits of the sequel in Good Omens – thats where our angels came from. Terrys not here any longer but when he was we had talked about what we wanted to do with Good Omens and where the story went next. The ideas were things like] expanding into heaven and hell he said in a conversation with Digital Spy. Gabriel Jon Hamm is not in the book but he and the other angels and a bunch of the other demons come from all the conversations Terry Pratchett and I had about what we would do in a second book. So it seems the brainstorming process was completed long before any ideas were even thought of being put on screen.
Season 2 The Cast Good Omens Season 2 First Look Shared by Neil Gaiman1 Amazon Studios and BBC Studios
Naturally Michael Sheen and David Tennant return to reprise their roles as the stuffy angel Aziraphale and the fast-living demon Crowley respectively. And Amazon Prime has given us a list of those in season one who will appear in season two. But an interesting note is that during that press release they announced that some of the actors would be returning under the names of different characters. Unfortunately its nearly impossible to extrapolate why or how this could fit into the narrative. But among those returning from season one will be Michael McKean Gloria Obianyo Miranda Richardson Maggie Service Reece Shearsmith Nina Sosanya and Paul Adeyefa.
Michael McKean played the dutiful and lovable Sergeant Shadwell the last officer of the Witchfinder Army. Shadwell eventually settled down with former enemy Madame Tracy Miranda Richardson a courtesan and part-time medium. Gloria Obianyo was the archangel Uriel. Maggie Service played Sister Theresa Garrulous who alongside Sister Mary Loquacious Nina Sosanya became former satanic nuns of the Chattering Order of St. Beryl. Reece Shearsmith had the wonderful and hilarious opportunity to play Shakespeare. And Paul Adeyefa played a silly slightly confused demon. Douglas Mackinnon will be returning as a co-showrunner with Gaiman. Mackinnon said in the press release
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