Or at least to the end of episode five, which was as far as the screener went. The result is a more confident, focused series that’s engaging from start to finish. Good Omens 2, which appears to be based on nothing save (maybe?) a few conversations Gaiman and Pratchett had in a hotel room in 1989, is a sequel series that manages to retain so much of what made the first story work while diminishing what slowed it down. But it also carried over the book’s weaker elements, its wonky pacing, plurality of uninteresting characters, and the fact that the first two thirds of the story is essentially table setting for the final third. It was clever like the book, with an ingenious plot (what if there had been a mix-up at the hospital and the Antichrist went home with the wrong family) that parodied The Omen while conjuring an apocalyptic tale all its about an angel and demon whose millennials-long rivalry grew from mutual antagonism, to grudging respect, and finally admiration and even a kind of love. The 2019 adaptation of Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s 1990 novel Good Omens was a charming show that succeeded in translating the book’s strengths and weaknesses to the small screen.
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