Good Omens season 2’s shocking ending makes sense to David Tennant and Michael Sheen

polygon.com:

[Ed. note: This interview was conducted before the SAG-AFTRA strike against the AMPTP went into effect.]

A different kind of Armageddon happened in the latest season of Good Omens. It isn’t a globally epic one, like in last season, but a personal one.

For all their six millennia’s worth of bantering and bonding, the jovial angel Aziraphale (Michael Sheen) and his brooding demonic companion Crowley (David Tennant) haven’t been able to admit that they’re a match made in heaven — or hell, or Earth. The 1990 novel source material written by Neil Gaiman (the showrunner and writer) and the late Terry Pratchett granted them a happy ending at the Ritz, as replicated in season 1.

But just when you think season 2 bestows them a happy chapter in life beyond the source material, the two angels find their relationship at a crossroads. It’s an outcome both bittersweet and baffling, yet appropriate for the pair, as wounding as a flaming sword impaled through the heart.

[Ed note: Spoilers follow for the end of season 2 of Good Omens.]

Written by Gaiman and John Finnemore, season 2 has been a definitive Crowley and Aziraphale story. God (voiced by Frances McDormand) is no longer narrating, other than a voice cameo in episode 3 as a distant voice. So Crowley and Aziraphale essentially own the narrative — their love story — all to themselves. In the hearts of its mortal viewers, Crowley and Aziraphale act like Ineffable Husbands. But like Jane Austen’s characters, they’re slow to grasp the romance brewing beneath their friendship. This is true even as people point they’re once again working very closely as they help the amnesiac archangel Gabriel seek refuge in Aziraphale’s bookshop.

In the finale, the hunky-dory resolution is thwarted by