Good Omens season 2 is just setup for a potential season 3

The first season of Good Omens, which aired on Amazon Prime Video way back in 2019, adapted the book of the same name by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, about an angel and demon who have become friends over thousands of years spent among the mortals on Earth, and who don’t want to lose their new home to a scheduled apocalypse.

The first season adapted the entirety of the book, so season 2 takes us into uncharted territory. Speaking to SFX Magazine, stars David Tennant (Crowley) and Michael Sheen (Aziraphale) explained how things are different after the plane-shaking events of season 1. “What’s different in season 2 is, because of what happened at the end of season 1, they no longer have head offices that they have to report to,” Tennant said. “They are in a very different position. Whereas before they were trying to get away with things, now they are kind of free agents.”

“Although sort of fugitives as well,” Sheen added. “They are sort of in-between. But this amazing life they have created over a millennia, they are now able to enjoy in a slightly different way. They are not having to put on a front for their respective teams. There is a different kind of freedom.”

Aziraphale and Crowley are “pushed even closer together” in season 2

The first season of Good Omens was a light, very British comedy that poked fun at religious mythology, but a lot of fans were in it for the relationship between Aziraphale and Crowley, which they’re hoping becomes more than friendly. Is there any chance of that in season 2?

“They have always been the only two beings who could understand each other’s position,” Sheen said. “Now they are pushed even closer together.”

Tennant agrees that the pair are ineffably linked, although he frames it a bit more pessimistically. “[Crowley] only has one friend. He can only have one friend. That is the great liberation, and also the great prison, that they find themselves in. They have no one else. They have come to rely on each other more than they ever did. And more than they care to admit.”

Good Omens season 3 is coming?

We’ll see what the future has in store for Aziraphale and Crowley soon enough. What was most surprising to me about the SFX feature is that Neil Gaiman, who came up with the idea for season 2, implied that it’s only set-up for a possible season 3.

We’ve always heard that, before Terry Pratchett passed, he and Gaiman came up with an idea for a sequel to Good Omens. I assumed that idea is that season 2 is based on, but apparently no; that’s what season 3 will be based on should it ever get made. “Because the hypothetical season 3 exists, there is a story that is there, and I didn’t feel that we could drive straight from season 1 into that,” Gaiman explained.

"I knew what the stakes were, I knew what the parameters were. I also knew that I had David and Michael. I had the angels from plot number one. I had demons from plot number one. And with anybody that I wanted to bring back, but I didn’t have room for right now, I did not have to bring them back as themselves."

Good Omens season 2 premieres on July 28.

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h/t Radio Times