I'm nervous about starting the series in case they ruined it.

Neil Gaiman was the showrunner and wrote the script, it was his final promise to Terry Pratchett. Most of the show is faithful to the book, but they also added an amazing sequence in the third episode that shows Crowley and Aziraphale's relationship over the centuries, and is an incredible love story.
Great casting as well - Tennant and Sheen are great in the leads.

I am halfway through the series and think it is great. Pratchett would approve, I'm sure.

Not to my liking. Don't know what got the bible-thumpers all wee-weed up.

An angel and demon friends, standing up to heaven and hell. People standing up and fighting instead of letting the earth end.

The religious right don't like such thoughts.

Deeply skeptical of Christianity. Starts with the premise: What if it were all true? The 6,000 years, Adam and Eve, fallen angels, Armageddon? The whole Megillah, so to speak?

The partnership of these two authors was phenomenal -- the notion that the greatest evil done is fom the minds of humans, not demons, and that the greatest grace achieved is from the hearts of humans and not angels, is pure Pratchett.

Sir Terry Pratchett is one of my all-time favorite authors. In the UK he achieved more popularity in his lifetime than Charles Dickens did in his.

I don't subscribe to Amazon Prime, but I have it on good authority that I should take their free trial and binge-watch this production.

But frankly, whether or not the movie meets my personal expectations, I will always have the book to return to, again and again. And if you have not read it, or have done so and not appreciated it, the loss is yours.

It's a miniseries, so there's 6 episodes. Definitely binge-worthy.

Definitely worth watching.

Of course I love Neil Gaiman. A less savage take on mythology than American Gods. Good people you can cheer for. What is wrong with that. I will eventually get to the source material.

...a more "savage" take on mythology, but the sheer sweep of that book is jaw-dropping, isn't it? And Shadow has subsequently turned up here and there in novellas lke Monarch of the Glen, so I am hoping one day Gaiman will pull together all of those stories into a single volume.

Good Omens is much more tightly focused on just the one myth, which accounts for the way the fundamentalists are reacting. They feel a sense of ownership, and how dare anyone actually play with their cosmic truth? Heh. As at the end, (young) "Adam seldom did what his father wanted," and since he's just confronted the Voice of God, and Beelzebub, and is now skedaddling from his human Dad on a bicycle -- it leaves you to wonder.

Reminded me stylistically of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy BBC production.

Amazon Prime is well worth getting. Lots of good original productions.

For us non-cable cord cutters, time was you could get just about anything on Netflix, either streaming or on disc. Now we find we need them and Prime as well as Britbox and Acorn. I guess families with kids will have to get Disney too. Anyway, got kind of off topic.

“Bugger this all for a lark”—a quote from the demon straight from the book. Probably won’t watch the whole thing, buts it’s very funny and great for fans of the book, of which I’m one.

Terry Pratchett was one of my favorites authors for a funny, witty, lighthearted read.

Apparently the book (s?) was very good, but often books don’t translate well into tv or movies.

It was childlike and not a very good use of my time.

but it’s uniformly pretentious, twee and awful. Terry Pratchett was better, but reading Good Omens was a bit of slog.

And honestly, the show looks like a dire, childish, hyper-saturated mess.

any of Gaiman's books. Nor Pratchett's. They are all a kind of fantasy, which just doesn't appeal to me for the most part.