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The experience of readingGood Omens,maybe first and most intensely, is the sense of its voice.
That premise presents a high degree of difficulty, adaptation-wise.
What do smug capital letters look like as a style of TV?
(God, in this case, is played by Frances McDormand.)
It is self-consciously constructed as a silly, constructed thing.
Thats no small feat.
He slouches across the screen, sneering and cocking one eyebrow and blasting Queen from his car speakers.
Things do get wobblier whenGood Omensturns to the side characters.
They are plentiful, but unevenly characterized.
The fact that the minor characters are so much weaker than the two leads unbalances the ending a little.
But to make it make it work, each piece already needs to have some meaning of its own.
Each character has to stand on their own before they can get pieced together into the bigger structure.
Its what makes the ending feel transformative rather than rote.
Good Omensdoes not quite succeed at this.
It doesnt quite pull together as a great, glorious, goofy Almighty plan.
