Good Omens

Good Omens returns after a four-year hiatus with a good story and the same funny chemistry between its stars.

Good Omens season two might be all questions and no answers, but, all the same, it’s a scriptural spectacular.

With season two, Good Omens carries on into the afterlife with glorious chutzpah and an absurdity that sinks its hooks in with glee.

It's hard to sense that Aziraphale and Crowley are ever truly in danger, unlike our last outing with them. But, instead, we're given deeper insight into our dysfunctional pair of heroes, a beautiful tale, and an ending that might ask more questions than it answers. In other words, ineffable. Just how we like it.

Even if Good Omens 2 doesn't suggest any reason the story has to be continued, this second outing proves that it probably should.

A mostly delightful little diversion with an amusingly irreverent tone. That’s not to say there was a pressing need for another season, only that it’s nice to have one with a show that, to borrow from the band that sang about sympathy for the Devil, really does have time on its side.

The series can get a bit bogged down in cosmology and plots involving its less-developed supporting cast, but it’s absolutely electrifying when David Tennant and Michael Sheen are sharing the screen together as a duo willing to break all the rules of the universe to help each other.

This is a season that digs deep into Aziraphale and Crowley's relationship. Perhaps if it was only focusing on that, cutting out some of the other bizarre plots — such as a story with zombies — maybe there would be a bit more cohesion.

For season two there is no more book to dramatise, so the makers are free to play to series one’s strengths. Good Omens 2 is more the Tennant and Sheen Show than ever. .... The significance and mechanics of the story remain unclear as Hamm, previously one of the strongest supporting characters, now has to do his best with a basic affable-ignoramus role.

Good Omens series two is immersive, inventive and unlike anything else on TV. But in comparison to the first, this tells a sluggish and exasperatingly thin story. But perhaps expecting Gaiman to pull off the marvel of the first is asking too much.

There's no harm in any series appealing directly to its inbuilt audience, and as entertaining as 'Good Omens' can be in its second season, it feels unlikely to win over anyone who wasn't already on board.

It’s hard to imagine anyone enraptured by "Good Omens" being disappointed in the new adventures of their favorite angel and demon, especially as the show keeps up many quirky and bizarre happenings that made it such a success in the first place. Tennant and Sheen continue to be the reason to watch.

It’s aggressively quirky and sometimes overly cute, but there’s too much acting talent in here for it not to be fun. The adventures of Crowley and Aziraphale themselves remain the highlight.

There are traces of good ideas in this season of Good Omens that we wish were more fully explored. The mystery of what happened to Gabriel is unevenly teased out in little morsels across the six episodes—and then downloaded all at once in the finale.