# Good Omens 2 is coming (It is here and all episodes are available 2023-07-28) season 3 coming **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** amazon-prime, tv-shows-scripted, books-writing-myths\ **Created:** [June 29, 2021, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-omens-2-is-coming-it-is-here-and-all-episodes-are-available-2023-07-28-season-3-coming/945257 "2021-06-29T16:00:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2023, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-omens-2-is-coming-it-is-here-and-all-episodes-are-available-2023-07-28-season-3-coming/945257/61 "2023-08-18T19:52:42Z")
So do you think there was any reason for the withered angel in a wheelchair? Some sort of permanent, unrepairable damage inflicted in angelic warfare, with the wheelchair being a metaphorical analogy visible to humans? Or just blind casting never intended to have an in-story explanation? ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2023, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-omens-2-is-coming-it-is-here-and-all-episodes-are-available-2023-07-28-season-3-coming/945257/62 "2023-08-18T23:23:12Z")
Maybe they just felt like casting Liz Carr. She’s a fine actress and a funny comedian. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2023, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-omens-2-is-coming-it-is-here-and-all-episodes-are-available-2023-07-28-season-3-coming/945257/63 "2023-08-20T04:28:26Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > So do you think there was any reason for the withered angel in a wheelchair? Yes. Heaven is Inclusive. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2023, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-omens-2-is-coming-it-is-here-and-all-episodes-are-available-2023-07-28-season-3-coming/945257/64 "2023-08-20T05:04:46Z")
Heaven is kind of shitty if you still need a wheelchair. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2023, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-omens-2-is-coming-it-is-here-and-all-episodes-are-available-2023-07-28-season-3-coming/945257/65 "2023-08-20T13:38:33Z")
Why? Her chair can fly and the world rearranges itself to provide access whenever needed. It doesn’t represent a limitation, just a difference. I just finished the series, and I admit Crowley professing romantic love for Aziraphale caught me off guard. I saw them as good friends, but we only experienced about 10 hours of their interactions. The two of them were together (and apart) for millenium. To be fair, they become much closer relatively recently. But with Nina and Maggie assuming they were a couple, and with Beelzabub and Gabriel hooking up, I’m sure it pushed Crowley into thinking about it. He’s always asking the important questions; Aziraphale is much more reactive and slow to accept. It was all happening too quickly for Aziraphale to absorb, maybe he’ll come around if given time. But Crowley may not forgive. I enjoyed the series immensely. The grey areas explored with Job and the grave robbers were some of the best moral lessons I’ve seen on TV. I don’t think Aziraphale is stupid, but he clearly needs to work his way through things before he can accept something that contradicts his world view. Crowley acts the right demon but underneath he’s a softy. The opening scene, where he’s so excited about his creation shows what he really feels. He wants to be good, but he’s not a sheep. ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2023, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-omens-2-is-coming-it-is-here-and-all-episodes-are-available-2023-07-28-season-3-coming/945257/66 "2023-08-20T18:13:49Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > John Finnemore! Who’s he when he’s up and dressed? ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2023, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-omens-2-is-coming-it-is-here-and-all-episodes-are-available-2023-07-28-season-3-coming/945257/67 "2023-08-20T21:20:32Z")
He’s a UK comedian and writer who created and starred in one of nerd-dom’s favourite radio comedies, _Cabin Pressure_. Highly recommended! ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2023, 9:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-omens-2-is-coming-it-is-here-and-all-episodes-are-available-2023-07-28-season-3-coming/945257/68 "2023-08-21T09:38:58Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > I wonder if Good Omens II will pull in a second Doctor in _Peter_ _Capaldi_? > [@KneadToKnow](#): > > My money’s on Peter Davidson. Good call there, BTW. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2023, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-omens-2-is-coming-it-is-here-and-all-episodes-are-available-2023-07-28-season-3-coming/945257/69 "2023-08-21T15:10:26Z")
Even a blind dog will find a rabbit every now and then. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2023, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-omens-2-is-coming-it-is-here-and-all-episodes-are-available-2023-07-28-season-3-coming/945257/70 "2023-09-01T00:28:34Z")
Just finished season 2. A complete mess. At best it feels like a half season, setting up the real plot in the second half. The romantic ending was foreshadowed by all the parallel couples throughout the season. In fact, after the end I tried to think back to see if there were any friendships portrayed. None come to me. What a strange world to live in without friends. Only lovers and enemies. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2023, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-omens-2-is-coming-it-is-here-and-all-episodes-are-available-2023-07-28-season-3-coming/945257/71 "2023-09-01T04:51:06Z")
Where there any indications that Gabriel and Beelzebub wanted to hook up and peace out, other than the last few minutes of the last episode? ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2023, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-omens-2-is-coming-it-is-here-and-all-episodes-are-available-2023-07-28-season-3-coming/945257/72 "2023-09-01T05:19:09Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > > [@Alessan](#): > > > > Season 2 Aziraphele is just a moron. > > I have now watched all of the season, and I disagree. Do you have examples? > > > [@Alessan](#): > > > > The Aziraphele of the first season would have understood why Crowley might not want to become an angel again. > > Here is where I disagree. > > > [@EllisDee](#): > > > > Yeah, I never got a romantic vibe from them. More BFFs / brotherly love. Taking it further, I never got _any_ sexual vibe from either of them one way or the other. Both characters seemed asexual to me. > > Right. “My particular Friend” as they used to say, someone trusted and close. And even a couple in that Plantonic sexless way Add me to the crowd. Both seemed to understand human sexuality was a “thing” after all in the original, but was so distant from their POV as to be almost meaningless. What was important to the two was the shared experiences, shared understanding, and a almost bemused wonderment at what humans could accomplish for good and ill. I have no problems considering the two as partners - after all, they do their best work when the work together, but as for romance, while blatantly telegraphed throughout S2, I kept hoping and praying that it would all be a “psych!” moment where it was brought up and they both turned in unison and laughed their asses off. Overall, I gave S2 a solid B, although until the final episode it was wavering between a B+ and an A-. Sigh. Here’s hoping for Season 3 or a book, and I very much want it to be Crawley recruiting Adam and his team in order to force both Heaven and Hell to stay away from Earth forever. And Az (B-side) realizing he’s in faaaar over his head and being used as a prop for the Metatron to distract everyone else in Heaven from his own agenda. Az then begins to (off-screen) feed info to Crawley’s team while on-screen seemingly flubbing things up in ways that aid the other side, with him explaining the whole thing at the very end. I see Crawley and Az being in this ending literal the literal “good angel” and “bad angel” on the shoulders of humanity. Not making anyone do anything, but always being there to remind humans of their selfish and selfless selves, without putting a finger on the scales. Sorry, I probably have spend far too much time thinking about this. 😄 ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2023, 10:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-omens-2-is-coming-it-is-here-and-all-episodes-are-available-2023-07-28-season-3-coming/945257/73 "2023-09-01T10:07:07Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > At best it feels like a half season, setting up the real plot in the second half. That’s exactly what it is. > **[Neil Gaiman Has Good Omens Season 3 All Planned Out, But Will That Be The End?...](https://www.slashfilm.com/1352868/neil-gaiman-good-omens-season-3-planned-end-series/)** > > When and if Good Omens season 3 happens, Neil Gaiman says it will bring the story to an end. But there are no guarantees of a third season. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2023, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-omens-2-is-coming-it-is-here-and-all-episodes-are-available-2023-07-28-season-3-coming/945257/74 "2023-09-01T10:28:35Z")
Yes, it’s definitely a “middle of trilogy, ending on a cliffhanger” season. > [@Ike\_Witt](#): > > Where there any indications that Gabriel and Beelzebub wanted to hook up and peace out, other than the last few minutes of the last episode? Given that Gabriel didn’t remember any of it, there wouldn’t have been anything. Beelzebub was cagey throughout but that’s not unusual for a demon. That said, the exposition dump in the last episode did suggest that they were drawn together for the same reason Aziraphale and Crowley were - despite being on opposite sides, they realized that they had more in common with each other than with the groups for which they were ostensibly working. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2023, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-omens-2-is-coming-it-is-here-and-all-episodes-are-available-2023-07-28-season-3-coming/945257/75 "2023-09-02T17:38:23Z")
No, just enough. I agree with most everything you say. Their muddled friendship drove the first season in a good way. “We have a Forbidden Love” is a different character and plot driver. Perhaps the answer is that angels learned about sexual love from humans, giving humans a special quality, a power, that the angels never had. That would be straight out of Doctor Who, where the humans play a special part in the universe. The series plays like a Who spinoff most of the time anyway; why not make it the center? ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2023, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-omens-2-is-coming-it-is-here-and-all-episodes-are-available-2023-07-28-season-3-coming/945257/76 "2023-09-02T17:56:09Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > Perhaps the answer is that angels learned about sexual love from humans, giving humans a special quality, a power, that the angels never had. That would be straight out of Doctor Who, where the humans play a special part in the universe. While this would be fine, although not my personal preference, I feel it’s lacking. Again, solidly IMHO, the strongest element of the original novel, which didn’t quite stand out as much in S1, is that it all boils down to “choice”. The angels and demons are so wrapped up in what they are (with the exception of our duo) that they never consider that they can do something -else-. And both sides of the conflict want Adam to do only what he was destined to do. Adam, echoing the original, makes a choice, and because of that, destiny flies out a window. One of the nice parts about S2, Michael’s and Beel’s story, is that they too are making a choice, and that’s what I would want season 3 to be about. Not that humans are special, it’s that they were given, or always had a choice about what to be. And that Angels and Demons are so utterly clueless that they have the same choices but constantly defer to God and Satan’s roles for them. I -think- this is being hinted at in the course of S2, or at least my hopes are causing me to read this into the material. Because we keep getting hints that Crawley is more important in the ineffable scheme than (especially?) the Metatron wants to acknowledge. He may well be the model of a modern major angel - question the directives from above while trying to act in a manner that is reasonably respectful of BOTH the created and creator. Meh. We’ll see. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2023, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-omens-2-is-coming-it-is-here-and-all-episodes-are-available-2023-07-28-season-3-coming/945257/77 "2023-09-03T00:16:57Z")
> [@ParallelLines](#): > > the model of a modern major angel … You know you now are obligated to come up with a whole song for us …. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2023, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-omens-2-is-coming-it-is-here-and-all-episodes-are-available-2023-07-28-season-3-coming/945257/78 "2023-09-03T01:53:29Z")
Sorry, I am too musically inept, and refuse to ask an AI to help me out, one of the board’s musical talents will be along shortly I’m sure. ---
**Author:** ![BrianDime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ad7895/32.png) [@BrianDime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrianDime)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2023, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-omens-2-is-coming-it-is-here-and-all-episodes-are-available-2023-07-28-season-3-coming/945257/79 "2023-09-27T18:37:16Z")
In S2, Ep. 4, there is a older guy walking through the rubble singing a drinking song about a farting contest. X-Ray showed him as “anon”, and some searching didn’t turn up who the actor was. Does anyone know? Seems fairly uncommon for an actor to not be named, which made me curious. TIA! ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2023, 9:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-omens-2-is-coming-it-is-here-and-all-episodes-are-available-2023-07-28-season-3-coming/945257/80 "2023-12-15T09:59:51Z")
3rd and final season is a go. > **[Heavenly news: 'Good Omens' will return for a third and final season](https://ew.com/good-omens-renewed-for-season-3-8415818)** > > 'Good Omens,' Neil Gaiman’s apocalyptic comedy starring an angelic Michael Sheen and a demonic David Tennant, is coming back for a third and final season. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-omens-2-is-coming-it-is-here-and-all-episodes-are-available-2023-07-28-season-3-coming/945257.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-omens-2-is-coming-it-is-here-and-all-episodes-are-available-2023-07-28-season-3-coming/945257.md?page=5)