The co-authors of Neil Gaiman, and the late Terry Pratchett 1990 classic “Good Omens” did a question-and answer session in which they responded to the question: “Why isn’t there a follow up?” as follows.
We played with some ideas but never got excited. We wanted to try other things, and some of these ideas may have ended up in our works, reshaped. We’ve been both wondering recently if the phrase ‘never ever again’ was set in stone. There might even be a follow-up one day. Maybe. Perhaps. We don’t know. We don’t.”
We now know because, on July 28th, Amazon Prime Video released the second season TV adaptation of “Good Omens,” which saw Michael Sheen reprise his role as the apocalypse fighting, centuries-old best friends, the fussy Angel and Rare-Book Dealer Aziraphale, and the fast-living, demon Crowley.
The second season is a departure from the first, which was based on the source material created by Gaiman (The Sandman, “American Gods”), and Pratchett. The latter, a prolific fantasy novelist, wrote the enduring “Discworld,” whose series Gaiman adapted to create the 2019 season. The show was then renewed in 2021 for a 2nd season, and Gaiman confirmed that he had developed the sequel idea with Pratchett prior to his 2015 death.
In the announcement of Amazon’s renewed contract, Gaiman stated that it has been 31 years since “Good Omens” was first published. This means 32 years ago Terry Pratchett sat in our beds at World Fantasy Convention in Seattle and we plotted out the sequel. Gaiman said, “I used bits from the sequel to ‘Good Omens.’ That’s how our angels appeared.” Terry is no longer here, but we discussed what we wanted with “Good Omens” and the direction of the story when Terry was.
The new season of Good Omens, written by Gaiman & John Finnemore goes further back in time, to “before The Beginning,” the period in which Crowley & Aziraphale were friends, and shows them trying to avert yet another Biblical disaster in present-day. The six-episode series sees the pair trying to find out what is going on when the archangel Gabriel, played by Jon Hamm, shows up in Aziraphale’s London bookshop with amnesia. They also try and hide him from Heaven or Hell in order not to get into more trouble (after being cast out of their previous employers in Season 1)
The finale reveals that Gabriel slowly developed a romance with Beelzebub, the demon head, after the events in the first season when Heaven and Hell stopped the first apocalypse due to Crowley’s and Aziraphale’s efforts. After falling in love with each other, Gabriel and Beelzebub decided that they didn’t want to go through with a second apocalypse. When Gabriel refused to accept this idea, the angels threatened to erase his memory and lower his status. He tries to erase it himself before they do so. Then he hides it in a beetle, which Beelzebub gave him, and hopes to find it later.
After all the puzzles are solved and Gabriel’s memories have been restored, Beelzebub and Gabriel decide to leave together. They abandon their respective posts in Heaven or Hell, leaving their subordinates arguing over who should take charge.
Aziraphale receives a job offer from angelic authority The Metatron. Maggie (Maggie Service), and Nina, two shopkeepers in the area that Crowley and Aziraphale had been trying to establish throughout the entire season. They tell him that after witnessing Gabriel and Beelzebub’s love story which they thought was romantic, he should stop ignoring his feelings for Aziraphale.
Aziraphale interrupts Crowley just as he is about to confess to him his love for him, and that he and Aziraphale should be “us” and leave together. Aziraphale says he will accept Crowley’s job as Heaven’s leader and invite Crowley to come up with him (returning him to the angel of old, who he used to be before becoming a demon). Crowley is appalled by Aziraphale’s desire to have anything to do anymore with Heaven after the suffering they both experienced at Heaven’s and Hell’s arms-obsessed hand. He interrupts Aziraphale to let him know how he really feels. Aziraphale, though he’s touched by Crowley, is still hesitant to give up Heaven. He wants Crowley with him, but he also wants to return to Heaven.
Crowley is brokenhearted after the angel chooses Heaven and not the demon. He kisses Aziraphale, for the very first time, to try and sway Aziraphale. Aziraphale, clearly unnerved by the event, tells Crowley “I forgive” before going their separate ways.
There is currently no news on whether Gaiman or Amazon plan to release a third series of “Good Omens.” If this is indeed the final season, then the story will end with Crowley leaving in sorrow and Aziraphale returning to Heaven to bring about the “second advent.”
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