“Good Omens 2” is worse than blasphemous, it’s boring. This new Amazon Prime show is a sequel to the amusing 2019 adaptation of Neil Gaiman and the late-Terry Pratchett’s 1990 novel parodying bad Christian eschatological fiction. In the original story, the angel Aziraphale (Michael Sheen) and the demon Crowley (David Tennant) team up to stop Armageddon after Crowley accidentally misplaces the baby Antichrist.
If you’re wondering how to get a sequel from that, well, the writers of this season had the same problem. They settled for replaying hits from the first season, only with no one knowing what was going on. An amnesiac Gabriel (Jon Hamm) shows up at Aziraphale’s London bookshop with both angels and demons hunting for him. Hijinks, or at least a facsimile of them, once again ensue as Aziraphale and Crowley try to hide Gabriel and figure out what the hell (or heaven) is going on. Along the way, there are a few flashbacks (e.g., the book of Job is turned into a farce), some bad CGI, a lot of LGBT stuff (of course), and an eventual big reveal that is pure cringe.
The actors are generally fine, but the pacing is off, the jokes are flat, and the earnest bits just make the viewer feel embarrassed for everyone involved. I suspect Gaiman wrote nothing for this except when it came time to sign the back of each check. In short, “Good Omens” has gone bad. The earnestness was the worst part. A comedy can earn
