The third and final series of 'Good Omens' is not exactly a series in the usual sense. It is a single feature-length 90-minute episode—essentially a concluding film. The news itself brings mixed feelings: on the one hand, better this than nothing at all; on the other, it is hard not to feel that this story deserved a full ending rather than a compromise shaped by circumstances beyond the screen.

The context behind this format is as follows: in 2024, Neil Gaiman stepped away from the show's production. One of the two authors of the original novel on which the series is based, and the project's showrunner, he withdrew after five women accused him of sexual assault. Gaiman denies the allegations, but personally proposed taking no part in the production of the finale, remaining involved only at the level of prior script development.

But the more important context is another one: the original foundation of series 3, conceived long before all these public allegations. In 1989, before the original novel was even published, English authors Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett attended the World Fantasy Convention in Seattle. Suffering from jet lag after arriving in the United States, they stayed awake through the nights discussing a possible continuation titled '668—The Neighbour of the Beast'. That book sequel was never written: first Gaiman's move to the US got in the way, and later, in 2015, Pratchett passed away. Gaiman said that if a third season happened, it would be the place where material they had discussed together could finally be visualised. In that sense, 'Good Omens' finale is the only chance for viewers and readers to see at least some version of an urban fantasy story based on the unwritten follow-up imagined by the two authors.

The second series was really more of an extended prologue to the third than a self-contained story: a collection of sketches from different eras threaded onto a very thin plotline. Gaiman himself never hid that, while David Tennant and Michael Sheen carried the whole spectacle through chemistry that exists beyond any script.

Now the project has only 90 minutes to put a full stop on everything. If the first series was about the end of the world, and the second about relationships, then the third is about the consequences of choice. One episode may simply not be enough—especially when 4.5 to 5 hours of material had reportedly been planned rather than an hour and a half.

As for the story itself: Aziraphale is now the Supreme Archangel and is trying to find Crowley while plans for the Second Coming begin taking an unexpected and dangerous turn. Crowley, meanwhile, is at rock bottom—in the fullest and most literal sense. Season two ended on a cliffhanger in which angel and demon finally confessed their feelings to one another, only to walk away in opposite directions. At once the worst and best moment for them both.

Premiere: 13 May on Amazon Prime Video.

Possible spoilers for the finale