Review: Good Omens finale (mostly) sticks the landing

📅 May 18, 2026  |  🌐 Source: https://arstechnica.com/culture/2026/05/review-chaotically-uneven-good-omens-finale-still-conjures-up-old-magic/  |  🏷️ Technology

Review: Good Omens finale (mostly) sticks the landing

Review: Good Omens finale (mostly) sticks the landing — via https://arstechnica.com/culture/2026/05/review-chaotically-uneven-good-omens-finale-still-conjures-up-old-magic/

It's been a three-year wait, but Prime Video finally released the series finale for Good Omens: a 90-minute single episode that sought to wrap everything up in a neat little bow. Verdict: Truncating the final season so drastically definitely hurts the first half of the series finale, which feels chaotic and rushed.

What You Need To Know

But once that stupendous on-screen chemistry between co-stars David Tennant and Michael Sheen kicks back in, the old magic shines through, strong as ever, giving us a fitting end to this beloved comic saga. (Spoilers below for all seasons. ) Here's a brief recap, since it's been a minute since the S2 finale.

🔑 Key Highlights

  • Verdict: Truncating the final season so drastically definitely hurts the first half of the series finale, which feels chaotic and rushed.
  • But once that stupendous on-screen chemistry between co-stars David Tennant and Michael Sheen kicks back in, the old magic shines through, strong as ever, giving us a fitting end to this beloved comic saga.
  • (Spoilers below for all seasons.
  • ) Here's a brief recap, since it's been a minute since the S2 finale.

More Details

The series is based on the original 1990 novel by Neil Gaiman and the late Terry Pratchett. Good Omens is the story of an angel, Aziraphale (Sheen), and a demon, Crowley (Tennant), who gradually become friends over the millennia and team up to avert Armageddon. Season 2 found Aziraphale and Crowley getting back to normal, when the archangel Gabriel (Jon Hamm) turned up unexpectedly at the door of Aziraphale’s bookshop with no memory of who he was or how he got there. The duo had to evade the combined forces of Heaven and Hell to solve the mystery of what happened to Gabriel and why.

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