Good Omens Season 2. It’s been a long time since Good Omens’ first episode featured Michael Sheen and David Tennant as angel Aziraphale and demon Crowley respectively. But we have just received a huge season 2 update.
Now, we know that season 2 of Amazon Prime Video will premiere in Summer 2023. This is four years after the original debuted in 2019.
Amazon Prime has confirmed the release window for Neil Gaiman’s Good Omens Season 2 and the supporting cast have been given new characters.
Good Omens, a fantasy comedy series written and created by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett based on their 1990 novel. The series, which was a six-episode collaboration between Amazon Studios and BBC Studios, was directed by Douglas Mackinnon. Gaiman served as showrunner.
This news was made public at the panel at New York Comic Con 2022. We also got first glimpses at two new characters joining the series, Maggie Service and Nina Sosanya. These are actors who had previously played different characters in season 1.
They will join Sheen and Tennant who both reprise their roles as Crowley and Aziraphale.
The first season was based upon the book by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett. It followed representatives from Heaven and Hell trying to stop the Antichrist’s arrival and end Armageddon.
Crowley (sitting on the right) could have set up shop, or a pub, right across from Aziraphale’s bookshop.
This is everything you need to know regarding Good Omens season 2 and when it will be available on TV.
Good Omens season 2 release Date
Although we don’t know when Good Omens season 2 will arrive on Amazon Prime Video, we have just received a major update.
Officially, the new season will arrive in Summer 2023. The news was announced at New York Comic Con on 7 October 2022.
After a long wait, fans finally get the news. When season 2 was announced in June 2021 by Gaiman via his website, he revealed via a post that sets were being constructed in Scotland and that filming would begin “soon”.
Season 1 of Good Omens aired over six months between September 2017 – March 2018. The series was eventually released on Amazon Prime May 2019.
Is there a second season for Good Omens?
It’s official: Good Omens season 2 has begun. Neil Gaiman is also on board. The show is now in production, and will be available for viewing in a few months.
Gaiman stated that when the first season was in production, he said: “I’m so happy to be back on Soho streets, watching every day the magnificent performances of Michael Sheen, David Tennant. Although Terry Pratchett’s genius is missed, it feels like we are all still walking in his head.”
He said, “In this episode, we have new adventures with our old friends, to solve many extremely mysterious mysteries, as well as encountering some completely new humans (living and dead), angels and demons.” In the first season, we were fortunate to have such outstanding actors take part. I enjoyed inviting them back whenever possible, in the original roles, and in new parts created just for them.”
This news was made public in June 2021, two years after the premiere of the first season. It also included confirmation that Michael Sheen and David Tennant would be reprising their roles.
Gaiman will also serve as co-showrunner.
“I was able to use bits of the sequel in Good Omens. That’s where our angels come from. Terry is no longer with us, but we talked about the future of Good Omens and what Terry wanted. Now, with the help of Amazon and BBC Studios, I can take it there.”
Gaiman had been arguing about whether or not there might be a second season. In March 2019, Gaiman suggested that there would be no more seasons.
He said, “The wonderful thing about Good Omens is it has a beginning, it has a middle and it has an ending,” at SXSW in Austin.
“Season 1 is Good Omens. It’s brilliant. It ends. We’re done with six episodes. We won’t attempt to add more episodes to make it last forever.”
He said, “I believe it would be fair for us to say that nobody in the world doesn’t want more Good Omens.” “Right now the challenges of creating more Good Omens are a challenge of time and the globe, not of will.”
“It also made me think, you know? ‘I really need something to get more Good Omens happening in my life. I need David back in sunglasses and Michael shaved, with white hair, to be Aziraphale once again.”
Good Omens season 2 plot
While it is not clear what the plot of Good Omens Season II will be, several plotlines have suggested possible scenarios and directions that the series might explore. This is similar to the first season. The logline for the first season indicates that it is set in 2018.
It follows long-time friends, the demon Crowley and the angel Aziraphale, who have become accustomed to Earth life as representatives of Heaven or Hell. They seek to stop the Antichrist from coming to Earth and Armageddon, which will be the final battle between Heaven/Hell.
Good Omens season 2 cast
On the announcement of season 2, it was confirmed that David Tennant and Michael Sheen would reprise their roles as demon Crowley and angel Aziraphale, respectively.
They have been reunited on lockdown comedy Staged and announced their return with a typically funny style.
“Personally, I don’t support it, but the world doesn’t just want to save itself,” said Sheen. Sheen said, “If David is patient and we don’t fall apart too much this time it might even have a chance to get finished.”
Tennant said, “The return to Good Omens is great for me personally. As Michael and I work together again, I have the opportunity to recite Neil’s amazing words. It is probably less beneficial for the universe because it almost certainly means that there will be a new existential threat to its existence. But, you know, swings and roundabouts.”
Jon Hamm, the Archangel Gabriel himself, will also be returning to the series.
Neil Gaiman, co-showrunner and writer, says: “Good Omens 2 would not be the exact same without Jon Hamm playing Gabriel, everyone’s worst boss. Terry Pratchett’s and my story, which we created many years ago, continues to take us from London’s Soho to Heaven and Hell.”
“It’s a joy for me to bring back characters that we loved (or loathed) and to introduce new characters, from Heaven’s top floors to Hell’s darkest basements. It’s an opportunity to love (or hate), or love to hate or love to love. They are all part of the unusually loved family of Good Omens.”
Douglas Mackinnon is the director and co-showrunner. He said: “I couldn’t be happier Jon has returned to do more Good Omens as the Archangel Gabriel who is second in Command in Heaven. We have welcomed familiar faces to the Good Omens 2 Family in familiar roles and familiar faces to unfamiliar roles. He joins us just halfway through production. Another familiar face is also in our production.”
Now we know Maggie Service and Nina Sosanya are familiar faces in new roles. They were the Chattering Order of Saint Beryl nuns in season 1. But now they play two characters who happen to be named Maggie and Nina.
We know that Maggie will run the record shop near Aziraphale’s bookshop in Soho while Nina owns a coffee shop just across the street.
Miranda Richardson, who is now Shax the demon, has been replaced by Crowley. Shelley Conn will take over Anna Maxwell Martin’s role of Beelzebub.
Donna Preston will play a new character, Mrs Sandwich. Other angels who have been added to the cast include Saraqael (Liz Carr), and Muriel (Quelin Sepulveda).
Trailer for Good Omens season 2
Although we don’t yet have a trailer for season 2, Neil Gaiman shared a behind-the-scenes photo of the set last year. It featured a chair with Terry Pratchett on it as a tribute to the writer.
“Terry is present in spirit, hat and scarf. He wrote that he would hang the photos in the bookshop, but they are now on his chair.”
Season 1 of Good Omens: What happened in the final episode?
The final episode, The Very Last Day of their Rest of Their Lives is directed and written by Douglas Mackinnon. The episode was originally released on May 31, 2019, but was released in the UK on Feb 19, 2020. The episode showed that Aziraphale was poised to shoot Adam. However, Madam Tracy refused to let him shoot a child. Adam decides to separate them, realizing that they are two individuals in one.
Death is left behind, while his companions triumph over war and pollution. Gabriel and Lord Beelzebub arrive to ensure that Adam’s Great Plan is followed. But he refuses. Aziraphale goes one step further and asks whether God’s Great Plan and God’s unfathomable plan is the same thing. Both parties realize they are uncertain and withdraw. Satan appears, but Adam rejects him. Adam restores the world including Aziraphale’s bookstore, Crowley’s Bentley and the lives of the recently deceased.
Their respective commanders accuse them of treachery. Aziraphale is ordered to be incinerated with a hellish flame and Crowley is forced into a tub of holy waters. They both survived, much to everyone’s surprise. Heaven and Hell agree that Crowley and Aziraphale should be left alone on Earth, as they are afraid of their future.
Crowley and Aziraphale both return to their natural bodies sitting in a park chair. Agnes Nutter’s last prophecy, “You must choose your faces wisely,” was the key to their survival. Anathema is given an updated prophecy guide, but she decides to throw it away and continue her life. Adam keeps his talents. Madame Tracy and Shadwell are planning to retire together in a small village outside of London. Crowley and Aziraphale enjoy lunch at Ritz, toasting “to the universe” as the series concludes.
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According to Gaiman, season 2 will likely be an origin story. He confirms on his website that “our story actually starts about five minutes before anyone has even gotten around to saying ‘Let There Be Light’”.
Gaiman promised that fans would get “the answers they’ve been waiting for” and also teased some cryptic plot details: “We are back at Soho and all through space and time, solving a mystery which begins with an angel walking through Soho with no memory.”