The Heaven and Hell of <em>Good Omens</em>
Neil Gaiman’s six-part Amazon miniseries about an odd couple at the end of the world is an acquired taste.
The new Amazon/BBC miniseries is essentially six hours of the same joke, and that joke is the universe itself. Or—more precisely—the chronic absurdity of heaven, hell, and everything that falls in between. Adapted by Neil Gaiman from the book he co-wrote more than 30 years ago with the late fantasy novelist Terry Pratchett, is an ongoing battle not between good and evil but between the profound and the ridiculous. It’s the literary technique of bathos, turned into television. Walking into a London bookshop in one scene, the archangel Sandalphon (played by Paul Chahidi)
