You can read or watch A Series of Unfortunate Events, or any of the other absurdist series out there. If you're looking for a something new and witty, you've found it! As for the rest of the cast, no-one could have done better. So please, If you loved Good Omens as a book You will definitely love it as a show. Clever clever series nicely produced and packaged. It's just two living entities caring for each other for millennia.
Really loved every minute of it, I was only sad that it ended. Basically, I would have enjoyed the show a lot more if the whole series was just what that first half of episode 3 was flashback. Very Gilliam-esque and very much a Pratchett story brought to glorious life. Good Omens is beautifully adapted from Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's classic fantasy novel. Not only did it introduce me to the wonderful writing of Terry Pratchett, but it was such an entertaining read I couldn't put it down. The episodes were brilliantly written and turned into magic onscreen.
But this show did not adhere to that Hollywood standard. Come the year 2015 and Sir Terry Pratchett passed away and I was devastated, I once again began to think about the idea of a Good Omens adaptation and I had the concern that it would never happen because he wouldn't be there to see it done and done right. David Tennant, if you're reading this - you did an amazing job with Crowley, so much swag. There were even some made up Biblical twists that I found funny, interesting and thought provoking. They are the quintessential odd couple who find they have rather more in common than not as they try to save the world from the Apocalypse.
So when I watched the trailer with them I cried, we both cried. The direction was awesome, the camera work was amazing and I loved how the the book's footnotes were worked into the script bit of a trademark of Mr Pratchett. To make this as a film would have been a colossal mistake. All the supporting cast is brilliant, particularly Jon Hamm. The cast is perfection, starting with the leads: Michael Sheen as the angel and David Tennant as the demon. So, I've read Good Omens at least 10 times over my lifetime, and I can honestly say that this mini series does the book justice.
After years of good but slightly disappointing book adaptations a show has stayed true to it's scource material. I would also like to apologize to Michael Sheen, I should not have ever doubted his performance. The acting is top-notch, the story is fantastic, the writing superb, the delivery mostly quirky and fun, so in a time where other television series run together and merge and meld in their unoriginality, to give this fun, very intelligently done series anything less than a nine, would be a sin. You can see every ounce of hard work that they all put into it. It just looked so perfect and almost too perfect at the same time.
Obviously I'm a a fan from the book or this wouldn't be posted already. Love the humour and the tone of this series. David Tennnant and Michael Sheen were both particularly brilliant in their respective roles. Clearly something amazing will happen, you just have to let go and enjoy the little things. I was worried at first because the typical formula for Hollywood is don't offend anyone unless they are Christians or Conservatives.
I was worried that no-one would do it justice. I've been a fan of Neil Gaiman's since high school, and I can honestly say Good Omens was one of my favorites. The writing, the directing and the actors are absolutely amazing. Glad others enjoyed it more though. Michael Sheen was just perfect! I also quite liked all the other demons and angels. It's hard for me to say how those who are unfamiliar with the source material would take this series.
It really does capture the spirit of the book. And when the trailer was released I watched it with my sister's. It invokes the classical love story of Romeo and Juliet, except this show is a comedy. And then in 2017 I heard that Neil Gaiman would be moving forward with an adaptation. Terry Pratchet has always been a favorite of mine, as well as Douglas Adams. David Tenant and Michael Sheen as Crowley and Aziraphale were just inspirational and Jack Whitehall as Newton Pulsifer was brilliant.
For once a book had been accurately put on screen. . I read the book, Good Omens, when I was teenager I'm now 35. Just a decent show for me as someone who didn't read the book. The Antichrist kid's acting is a bit bland, but perfectly acceptable. If it leans towards finding humour in dark situations you probably will.