WiC Watches: Good Omens

These days, every network is trying to make its own super-sized fantasy tentpole series in a bid to inherit the crown lately on the head of HBO’s Game of Thrones. When I heard that Amazon was going to make a show based on Good Omens, the 1990 religious satire by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, I thought we were in for something similar. I thought Amazon was going to do to Good Omens what Starz did to Gaiman’s American Gods: turn it into a multi-season series when there really only enough book for one.

So I was pleasantly surprised when I heard that Good Omens was just going to be a six-episode mini-series with a beginning, middle, and end. Gaiman wrote every episode, Michael Sheen and David Tennant play the angel Aziraphale and the demon Crowley respectively, and the trailer looked really good. This seemed like a sure-fire hit.

Is the show as good as advertised? Let’s watch it episode by episode and find out!