The second season of Good Omens will premiere on Amazon Prime at the end of the month, but there may already be more to look forward to as series creator Neil Gaiman has spoken on the potential of a third season that will continue the story crafted by him and the late Terry Pratchett.
The duo wrote Good Omens together in 1990, telling the comedic story of an angel and a demon who have formed a friendship on Earth and try to prevent Armageddon while a number of other people are drawn into the oncoming battle between Heaven and Hell. Gaiman and Pratchett had discussed ideas for a sequel as they tried developing the story into a film prior to Pratchett’s death in 2015. While season two will incorporate some elements of their sequel into the story, Gaiman said in an interview with SFX Magazine it is instead something Gaiman largely wrote himself to bridge the story he and Pratchett wrote with the sequel they envisioned.
“Because the hypothetical season three exists, there is a story that is there, and I didn’t feel that we could drive straight from season one into that,” Gaiman said. “I knew what the stakes were. I knew what the parameters were. I also knew that I had David [Tennant] and Michael [Sheen]. I had the angels from plot number one. I had demons from plot number one. And with anybody that I wanted to bring back, but didn’t have room for right now, I did not have to bring them back as themselves.”
What do you think of a potential third Good Omens? Would you like to see what Gaiman and Pratchett had planned for Aziraphale and Crowley or wait until you see the second season to decide?
Originally based on Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman’s international best-selling novel, Good Omens 2 explores storylines that go beyond the original source material to illuminate the ineffable friendship between Aziraphale, a fussy angel and rare-book dealer, and the fast-living demon Crowley,” according to the synopsis. “Having been on Earth since The Beginning, and with the Apocalypse thwarted, the duo are getting back to easy living amongst mortals in London’s Soho. That is, until the archangel Gabriel turns up unexpectedly at the door of Aziraphale’s bookshop with no memory of who he is or how he got there.
Season 2 sees the return of Michael Sheen as angel Aziraphale, David Tennant as demon Crowley, Jon Hamm as archangel Gabriel, Doon Mackichan as archangel Michael, and Gloria Obianyo as archangel Uriel, returning in new roles are Miranda Richardson as demon Shax, Maggie Service as Maggie, and Nina Sosanya as Nina, and series newcomers Liz Carr as angel Saraqael, Quelin Sepulveda as angel Muriel, and Shelley Conn as demon Beelzebub.
Good Omens season 2 premieres all six episodes on Friday, July 28th, only on Prime Video.
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