I remember Terry talking about the idea of a skyscraper, with the guys in hell just down in the basement and the angels on the top floors. “One of the things that we decided on right from the word ‘go’ is, we needed angels, we needed to see hell-which we never see in -and we needed to see heaven. “We started talking back in 89 about what we would do if we were telling this story as a movie or as TV,” he told me. These show inventions are, like nearly everything else, yet another way for Gaiman to honor Pratchett. Hell, on the other hand, is another set of offices, their own drippy, dank, fluorescent-lit nightmare. In the Amazon show, heaven is seen as an antiseptic, joyless corporation in the sky led by Jon Hamm’s smug and intolerable angel Gabriel.

And though the petition never mentions the show’s depictions of heaven and hell, which do not appear in the novel, it’s not hard to imagine them objecting to them, either. “Terry would have loved the nuns,” Gaiman says in this new video.

Then there are the “groups of Satanic ‘nuns’ that are chosen to raise the Antichrist,” as the petition puts it. “God is voiced by a woman,” the petition complains. Amazon has given a second season order to Good Omens, the comedic fantasy drama produced by Neil Gaiman based on the work of revered British novelist Terry Pratchett. And now, thanks to BBC Studios and Amazon, I get to take it there.That raised the hackles of the protesting Christian group.

'Terry's not here any longer, but when he was, we had talked about what we wanted to do with Good Omens, and where the story went next. 'I got to use bits of the sequel in Good Omens - that's where our angels came from,' Gaiman said. The second season will be going beyond the book's plot, and although it will be a departure from the source material, Gaiman wasn't starting entirely from scratch.Īs he explained when Good Omens Season 2 was announced in 2021, he and Terry Pratchett had originally planned a sequel to the novel but never got around to writing it. Unlike the Netflix adaptation of Gaiman's Vertigo Comics series, The Sandman, a show for which Gaiman co-wrote the pilot and served as an executive producer, he has written every episode of both seasons of Good Omens, with John Finnemore joining Gaiman to co-write Season 2. 'I feel like Good Omens season one was 'Chopsticks.' This is much more me getting to the whole orchestra.' Who Is Writing 'Good Omens' Season 2 With Neil Gaiman? Gaiman then added a cryptic teaser for how the upcoming Season 2 compares to its predecessor. RELATED: How Good Omens' Streaming Success Brought Sandman to the Small Screen

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