Good Omens 2

[Grey_Area]

In season 1, quirky story; well acted, locations real, reasonably accurate in following Neil G/Terry P writings.

Season 2 on Prime, has been absolutely ruined; over produced, poor locations(studio sets mainly) flat 2d cardboard acting, and just utterly terrible to watch. Even David T cannot redeem it, watched 3 episodes last night, and won’t be going back to finish the series.

[siremoon]

Grey_Area said:

In season 1, quirky story; well acted, locations real, reasonably accurate in following Neil G/Terry P writings.

Season 2 on Prime, has been absolutely ruined; over produced, poor locations(studio sets mainly) flat 2d cardboard acting, and just utterly terrible to watch. Even David T cannot redeem it, watched 3 episodes last night, and won’t be going back to finish the series.

Agreed. Season 1 also featured a lot of throwaway one liner asides which were easy to miss but were often hilarious. There were none I recall in season 2, the plot was pedestrian and don't get me started on the last episode. Talk about sledge-hammering in a social message; it gave the impression the script had been put together in a North London artisan coffee shop. If you're a paid-up member of the woke cult you might like it I suppose.

[Kevin Cozner]

Season 2 is hilarious, right down to that every car that passed along that generic North London street was electric. I think the script editors were Corbyn and Abbott.

[oldskoolgent]

only redeeming feature i found were the many nods to the Disc and PTerry in particular.

[Equus]

oldskoolgent said:

only redeeming feature i found were the many nods to the Disc and PTerry in particular.

... But only served to highlight the point, I think, that whilst Neil Gaiman is a very talented writer of fantasy (witness American Gods, Sandman and Neverwhere), he's a very, very, long way from being the comic genius that Pratchett was.

Gaiman has obviously sold out for the money on offer from Amazon, Netflix and the film industry. You can't blame him for that, but the commercial pressures involved to meet production deadlines mean that I don't think we'll ever see the like of his earlier work, let alone the quality of the original Good Omens (book) collaboration with Pratchett's input and influence.

[pquinn]

I had a similar reaction. Season 1 has a story and works, Season 2 just sort of exists for the sake of it.

Apparently Season 2 only really exists as filler to get to the story in Season 3, which apparently is the basic sequel concept very roughly put together back when the book first came out.

Not sure how much of the audience will return to watch it though if/when it happens.

[Ace-T]

Glad I was not the only one to feel ambivalent. The characters Pterry and Gaiman created are fantastic, however the treatment of them in this series was less than stellar, especially in the last episode.

Crowley and Aziraphale are BFFs, the kiss was completely wrong. The other relationships were quite sweetly done: the cafe and record store owners, Gabriel and Beelzebub, I got it, but the two protagonists were never boyfriends, they were always best friends. Disappointing.