Wednesday 17 July 2019

Good Omens (2019 Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett)

Loved the episode which jumps through time and shows Aziraphale and Crowley reaching their arrangement via the Crucifixion, Shakespeare (Reece Shearsmith), French Revolution, Nazis etc.

Michael Sheen is absolutely hilarious. So when he's not on camera e.g. 'inside' Miranda Richardson, it's not as much fun. With David Tennant, Frances McDormand, Sam Taylor Buck, Daniel Mays, Adria Arjona, Jack Whitehall, Michael McKean, Bill Paterson

Sometimes it's a bit exhausting - definitely the best scenes are the byplay between the leads, and their growing friendship. Maybe there's too much going on? But it is all neatly wrapped up at the end, with a lovely, beautiful twist.

All sorts of people have turned up by then, including Anna Maxwell Martin, Elizabeth Berrington, the voices of Andy Hamilton and Benedict Cumberbatch, John Hamm, Steve Pemberton, Mark Gatiss, Steve Oram, Derek Jacobi..

Great line from Tennant with flaming Bentley: "You couldn't get that performance out of a modern car." And - "Yes. But is it the ineffable plan?" Very funny ('Ineffable' = too great to be expressed in words; too sacred to be uttered.)

6 x 60' directed by Douglas Mackinnon for Amazon. Shot by Gavin Finney,


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