David Tennant defends Good Omens from accusations of blasphemy
By Dan Selcke
The second season of Good Omens premieres tomorrow! The show follows the adventures of the angel Aziraphale (Michael Sheen) and the demon Crowley (David Tennant) who form an unlikely friendship over their millennia of serving the interests of heaven and hell respectively. The first season found them teaming up to prevent the antichrist from bringing about the apocalypse, the both of them having grown attached to life on Earth.
The show, based on the book of the same name by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, definitely pokes fun at religious mythology, but it’s all pretty gentle and in good fun; you’d have a hard time arguing that it was anti-Christian or something.
Still, some folks got bent out of shape when the first season premiered back in 2019. A group called Return to Order started a petition calling for the show to be banned, claiming that it “mocks God’s wisdom” and made satanism appear “acceptable.” The petition gained around 20,000 signatures, per Independent.
David Tennnat talks Good Omens criticisms: “People are very keen to be offended”
Star David Tennant pushed against these accusations while speaking to Radio Times. “People are very keen to be offended,” he said. “They’re often looking for something to glom on to without possibly really examining what they think they’re complaining about.” Ah, so he’s been on the internet, then.
“It’s not an irreligious show at all,” Tennant continued. “It’s actually very respectful of the structure of that sort of religious belief. The idea that it promotes satanism [is nonsense]. None of the characters from Hell are to be aspired to at all. They’re a dreadful bunch of non-entities.”
We can all see what Tennant is talking about when the second season of Good Omens premieres on Amazon Prime Video on July 28.
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