Good Omens - 2019
Rating - 12
Director - Douglas Mackinnon
Written by Neil Gaiman
Based on the book by - Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
Starring - Michael Sheen, David Tennant, Michael Mckean, Jon Hamm
Good Omens is a 2019 comedy-drama series about an angel and a demon who have been together on earth for 6000 years, have to team up in the present day to save the world from armageddon.
The show stars Michael Sheen, as Aziraphale, a fussy and subservient angel who currently runs a book shop and loves posh cuisine and David Tennant as Crowley, a loose-living demon who was the demon who morphed into a serpent to tempt Adam and Eve to eat the apples at the beginning of religious times. The show also stars Michael Mckean, of Spinal Tap fame, as the Witchfinder Seargent Shadwell and Jack Whitehall as his assistant Newton Pulsifer.
The shows' plot starts 11 years before 2018 (2007) when Crowley is given a basket containing the antichrist and takes it to a satanist nunnery (the chattering order of St Beryl) as two women, a presidential advisors wife and an average woman from the small town of Tadfield are giving both giving birth at the nunnery so the plan was to switch one of the babies around with the antichrist and dispose of the other. Though the plan goes horribly wrong as Aziraphale and Crowley discover 11 years later, that they've been looking over the wrong child as when it comes to his 11th birthday, armageddon would begin if the hellhound left to him is named. But when the hellhound doesn’t turn up, they realise the fatal truth. The hellhound (in the form of a black and white collie) turns up to Adam Young on his 11th birthday and ironically, he names it Dog. This starts the beginning of the end while heaven and hell prepare for the final battle of good and evil while Aziraphale and Crowley desperately try to find the boy in this riveting and action-packed tv series.
I personally highly enjoyed this series, as I was already a fan of both Michael Sheen and David Tennant separately but they have a great working dynamic together in this unusual, somewhat controversial and superb comedy drama
Score - 9/10
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