Good Omens fans already want season 2 to join the heartbreak romance canon
After a relatively cozy and oddly happy season, Good Omens broke everyone’s hearts — but in the best way possible.
[Ed. note: This post contains major spoilers for the ending of Good Omens season 2.]
The second season of the Prime Video show — based on the 1990 fantasy book by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett — ends with a big damn kiss. Except, instead of being a happy climax to a love confession, it’s a tearful goodbye. Demon Crowley (David Tennant) was just about to confess his love to angel Aziraphale (Michael Sheen), but the angel cut him off with some other news. Aziraphale accepted the Metatron’s offer to be a leader in heaven, and he hopes to rebuild heaven with Crowley by his side. But Crowley doesn’t want to be an angel again, or play by anyone’s rules. So, after shooting his shot with a desperate kiss, he turns down Aziraphale and the two go their separate ways as the credits roll.
It’s a moment that could have been a huge disappointment for fans who’ve waited literal decades for these two characters to romantically get together.
Instead, though, the consensus seems to be that this heartbreaking ending hurts so good.
Fans are offering one another comfort, comparing this ending to other devastating romantic moments in TV, like the first season finale of Our Flag Means Death, the Priest and Fleabag’s breakup, and (funnily enough) the 10th Doctor and Rose’s premature parting of ways. Good Omens has the heartache and yearning that resonates with the most bittersweet and touching of romances, with the added oomph of being a queer love story. After all, slow burn romances and angst are just as appealing to fanfic writers as fluffy domesticity.
One of the most popular comparison points isSupernatural — which
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