Good Omens is over, and the ending of season 3's one-shot special episode could be interpreted in a number of ways. That being said, the installment's director, Rachel Talalay, has settled at least one debate about the Prime Video show's farewell effort. What's even more impressive is that she essentially used just two words to do it.
FULL SPOILERS for Good Omens season 3 ahead.
Speaking recently with TV Insider, Talalay talked about how much she loved the script for the Good Omens finale, as well as how much of a joy it was to work with both David Tennant (Crowley) and Aziraphale (Michael Sheen). She specifically mentioned how effortless it was to make the transition between two distinct aesthetics toward the end of the episode. When doing so, she cleared up something very specific.
Good Omens season 3 director confirms that is the "real world" at the end
Good Omens' final handful of minutes take place in a different universe from the one that's been the show's primary setting. The biggest change is that the new reality canonically has no God (Tanya Moodie) or any of the other related religious elements. Therefore, the debate arises of whether Good Omens is suggesting that this is the same world that the audience lives in, or whether that was the reality from before God's reboot that wiped herself from existence. Talalay has just told us which is accurate.
"I just can’t say enough about how much David and Michael own their characters from beginning to end. So when you come and say, ‘OK, but now we are in the real world, what kind of changes do we want?’ And that was everything to do with that was done in collaboration with them.Rachel Talalay
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Although she's mainly waxing lyrical about her co-leading men, the use of the phrase "real world" confirms that Good Omens' post-reboot reality is the one the show is claiming to be ours. This is a notable reveal, even if it doesn't seem like it at first.
Good Omens has long teased that it's set within "our" universe, and that the Christian faith is canon. Talalay, on the other hand, has just confirmed that this isn't the case. Instead, most of the show's run exists in a more fantastical reality, while the final five minutes or so are the "real world," where God and religion have been relegated to fiction.
Season 3 tastefully allows Creationism to be both true and false
The Prime Video show has long poked fun at Christian lore, but also honored it by using it as a solid basis for its worldbuilding. By being so playful and lighthearted with it all, the suggestion is that Good Omens is treating its religious elements as pure fantasy. Things like Creationism are treated as official canon within the show, and none of the characters really questions it. In this sense, Good Omens has long existed as a sort of middle ground for Creationists.
On the surface, it might seem that the finale is choosing a side by scrubbing God from existence and creating a new universe where She doesn't exist. This couldn't be further from the truth, though. Instead, Good Omens spends its last few minutes suggesting that both God and the Big Bang can both be the origin of our universe.
After a failed attempt at a religion-heavy universe that ultimately caved in on itself, Good Omens then allows God to be the divine force behind our universe's Big Bang, and then for Her to stop existing altogether as a result. In other words, Good Omens cleverly allows both statements of "God created the universe" and "God doesn't exist" to both ring true in "our" reality.
Good Omens is now available to stream in its entirety on Amazon Prime Video.
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