Good Omens season 2’s ending felt a lot like fanfic

polygon.com:

Season 2 of Good Omens wasn’t really ever supposed to happen. The first season was originally planned as a miniseries, a one-and-done adaptation of Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s classic 1990 novel. After the first season of Good Omens left the question of Aziraphale and Crowley’s relationship dangling, fans read and wrote fic by the truckload, imagining all the different ways things might play out after the fall of the curtain. But when season 2 was, in fact, greenlit by Amazon, there was always going to be a question of how closely the continuation would hew to the reams of imagined ever-afters from the collective mind of fandom. And the result is… actually remarkably close to what the fanfic thought it might be.

The first season faithfully followed the many interlocking plotlines of the original book. While Aziraphale (Michael Sheen) and Crowley (David Tennant) were certainly the stars, Anathema and Newt, Shadwell and Miss Tracy, plus the denizens of heaven and hell also all got a look in, alongside plenty of time spent on the adventures of its ostensible protagonist, Adam Young, and his friends. But while the second season (out now on Prime Video) has an assortment of new secondary characters to support its plot, there really isn’t any pretense that it is supposed anything other than the Aziraphale and Crowley Show.

Part of that might have been down to issues that came with shooting during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, as Good Omens did. Shrinking the world of the show down to a skeleton cast on a soundstage, reducing the amount of complicated on-location and crowd shots in favor of intimate scenes between main characters, likely eased production pressures and allowed the shoot to proceed smoothly.

But