The angel and the demon aren’t even supposed to know each other the latter is meant to be tempting men and women toward Satan while the former should be out saving as many souls as he can for God. Now, he’s become addicted to mankind’s edible delights (a foodie, if you will), and takes pride his impeccable clothing.

Aziraphale is such a kind angel, he gave his only sword to Adam when he was cast out of Eden - against God’s will. You see, meeting Aziraphale (Michael Sheen) has softened him (that, and centuries surrounded by humans). ‘Archer: 1999’ Review: Season 10 Can’t Be the Final Frontier - Not When It’s Still This Good (Crowley personally mucked up the plans for England’s M25.) He’s not the epitome of evil anymore, so much as he enjoys annoying Londoners with mismanaged roadways. Crowley ( David Tennant) is a demon, but not just any demon - he’s morphed from the snake in the Garden of Eden into a Queen-loving, sunglasses-at-night prankster.

Picking up with the beginning of the universe, “Good Omens” employs God herself as the narrator (Frances McDormand, sporting a benevolent lilt) to guide viewers through a centuries-spanning friendship between two earthbound spirits. Anyone willing to forgive its hodgepodge of plotting and dearth of dynamic characters will have a bit of fun with the two crackling leads it’s just with such lofty potential, it’s hard not to be disappointed in the flawed results. Though Neil Gaiman’s adaptation of his own 1990 novel (co-written with Terry Pratchett) would have fared better had it reached for the heavens (and cut its extraneous, tedious material) or sullied itself in the fires of hell (and embraced a more chaotic, subversive religious satire), the six-episode Amazon and BBC co-production is still a colorful, amusing piece of big-budgeted, middle-minded adventure-comedy that will likely please fans and even win over a few skeptics. If to err is human, then “ Good Omens” has become the very species it worships.

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