David Tennant and Michael Sheen are still a dazzling demon and angel double act – but everything else about this controversial finale is smug, grating and stale
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he omens for Good Omens have been bad from the start. A litany of abandoned dramatisations of Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman’s 1990 fantasy novel finally came to an end when Prime’s TV version debuted in 2019, but by then Pratchett was dead and the show was awkward and mannered, too in awe of the source material, yet dogged by uncertainty about how Pratchett might have altered it.
Four years later, season two told a new story that acknowledged the dominant energy of the show’s lead performers, David Tennant and Michael Sheen. Without the book to draw on or Pratchett to consult, Gaiman seemed unsure what to do with his stars, but a fan-pleasing finale converted the chemistry between Tennant’s boisterous demon Crowley and Sheen’s thoughtful angel Aziraphale to romance, confirmed with a kiss before being stymied by cosmic obligations.
Now controversy has banjaxed the third and final run, which was meant to be a neat ending, before it has begun. Gaiman has denied accusations of sexual assault and other serious misconduct made against him by several women. Three lawsuits against him were dismissed by US federal judges in February 2026. And although he still has a co-writing credit on Good Omens, his involvement has been limited and season three has become a 90-minute special instead of the six planned episodes. It was filmed at the start of 2025; for a while it looked as if Amazon might not release it at all.
