The third and final season of Prime Video’s fantasy series “Good Omens,” based on the classic 1990 novel by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, will not be a full season after all, Deadline Hollywood reports. Ta. In the wake of sexual assault allegations against Gaiman this summer, the streaming platform decided to make the series finale a single 90-minute episode, the equivalent of a TV movie, rather than a full episode.
(Major spoilers for the S2 finale of Good Omens below.)
As previously reported, the series is based on the original 1990 novel by Gaiman and the late Pratchett. Good Omens is the story of the angel Aziraphale (Michael Sheen) and the demon Crowley (David Tennant). They gradually become friends over thousands of years and work together to avert Armageddon. Gaiman’s obvious heartfelt and intense love for the project, as well as the strong chemistry between the stars, made the first season a real joy to watch. Other than a few minor quibbles, the TV version of Good Omens was pretty much everything fans of the book expected.
S2 finds Aziraphale and Crowley back to normal, but then Archangel Gabriel (Jon Hamm) suddenly appears at the entrance to Aziraphale’s bookstore, wondering who he is and how he got there. I had no recollection of coming. The two had to evade the combined forces of Heaven and Hell to solve the mystery of what happened to Gabriel and why.
In the cliffhanger S2 finale, the two discover that Gabriel has rebelled against Heaven and refused to support a second attempt to bring about Armageddon. He hid his own memories to avoid discovery. Oh, and he and Beelzebub (Shelley Conn) fell in love. They ran away together, and Metatron (Derek Jacobi) offered Aziraphale Gabriel his old job. At that time, Crowley confessed his love to the angel and asked him to leave heaven and hell behind. Aziraphale wanted Crowley to join him in heaven instead. There Crowley kissed him and they parted ways. When Aziraphale arrived in heaven, he learned that his mission was to bring about the Second Coming.
