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The dialogue between enemies Crowley and Aziraphale mostly compensated, although it occasionally was predictable.
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It doesn’t quite work, because it doesn’t quite disguise the fact that beneath the razzle-dazzle, every character apart from the main two is tissue-paper thin. This is particularly true of the female parts. ... When both Crowley and Aziraphale are offscreen, things fall flat. In fact, a distinct sense that everyone is just marking time until they come back creeps in.
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Good Omens is at its best when it’s a Divine (Buddy) Comedy. Sheen and Tennant, wonderful actors unafraid to let out their inner cheeseball, have great chemistry and know how to sell a joke. ... Whenever the show departs from the two leads, however, the life seeps out of it.
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Good Omens‘ six episodes feel breezy thanks to a slick directing job from Douglas Mackinnon (Knightfall), but its narratively all over the place. To be fair, that’s often by design.
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Good Omens continues to have its special effects moments. But there aren’t enough of them to overcome the basic tedium afflicting it.
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The six-episode limited series loses momentum as it goes, making the teased possibility of a sequel less and less appealing. Still, the comic pairing of Sheen and Tennant could carry a story all its own, if only their creators would leave them alone to their own devices.
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There’s about 50% too much content distracting from the core strength of Neil Gaiman’s latest series: the glorious onscreen chemistry shared by David Tennant ("Doctor Who") and Michael Sheen ("The Good Fight").
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It’s a lot, and sometimes the pace is more exhausting than bracing. At the same time, the show’s underlying ideas about tribalism and friendship are pretty commonplace. Still, Tennant and Sheen make an ideal buddy-comedy duo; their banter does justice to Gaiman (who adapted the novel and is an executive producer of the miniseries) and the late Pratchett’s witty prose.
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The end of the world sounds pretty terrible, but turns out it's tolerable as long as David Tennant is there.
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Onscreen, this pairing — between a saintly being played by Michael Sheen and a fallen angel played by David Tennant, both seeking to save the world for their own reasons — is the best part of the new “Good Omens” limited series. But it’s not enough: This six-hour journey towards the end of time comes to feel grindingly slow by the end, more anticlimax than fight for Earth’s future. ... That it ends up saying so little feels like a missed opportunity.
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Positive: 60 out of 73
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Mixed: 5 out of 73
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Negative: 8 out of 73
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May 31, 2019It was amazing, I haven't read the book, but after watching it I will! David Tennant was great! I wasn't expecting to hear Queen songs:)
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Jun 2, 2019
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Jun 1, 2019