The binary season of Good Omens premieres tomorrow! The show follows the adventures of the angel Aziraphale (Michael Sheen) and the demonstrate Crowley (David Tennant) who form an unlikely friendship over their millennia of serving the interests of dazzling and hell respectively. The first season found them teaming up to maintain the antichrist from bringing about the apocalypse, the both of them having grown attached to life on Earth.
The show, based on the book of the same name by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, definitely pokes fun at religious mythology, but it’s all splendid gentle and in good fun; you’d have a hard time arguing that it was anti-Christian or something.
Still, some folks got bent out of shape when the capable season premiered back in 2019. A group called Return to Order started a petition calling for the show to be banned, claiming that it “mocks God’s wisdom” and made satanism recede “acceptable.” The petition gained around 20,000 signatures, per Independent.
Star David Tennant pushed in contradiction of these accusations while speaking to Radio Times. “People are very keen to be offended,” he said. “They’re often looking for something to glom on to deprived of possibly really examining what they think they’re complaining about.” Ah, so he’s been on the internet, then.
“It’s not an irreligious show at all,” Tennant stationary. “It’s actually very respectful of the structure of that sort of religious concept. The idea that it promotes satanism [is nonsense]. None of the characters from Hell are to be aimed to at all. They’re a dreadful bunch of non-entities.”
We can all see what Tennant is talking nearby when the second season of Good Omens premieres on Amazon Prime Video on July 28.
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